Combs, Holly Marie 1973- (Holly Combs, Holly Marie Combs-Donoho, Holly Donoho)

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Combs, Holly Marie 1973- (Holly Combs, Holly Marie Combs-Donoho, Holly Donoho)

PERSONAL

Born December 3, 1973, in San Diego, CA; daughter of David and Laralei Combs (a musician); married Bryan Travis Smith (an actor), February 28, 1993 (divorced, 1997); married David W. Donoho (a grip, writer, and actor), February 14, 2004; children: (second marriage) Finely Arthur, Riley Edward. Education: Attended Professional Children's School, New York, NY. Avocational Interests: Gardening and horseback riding.

Addresses:

Agent—The Gersh Agency, 232 N. Canon Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90210. Manager—Precision Entertainment, 5820 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90036.

Career:

Actress. Appeared in print ads and commercials as a child. Thursday's Child, board member; spokesperson for breast cancer awareness.

Member:

Screen Actors Guild.

Awards, Honors:

Young Artist Award, best young actress in a new television series, 1993, Young Artist Award nomination (with others), outstanding youth ensemble in a television series, 1994, two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations (with others), best ensemble acting in a television drama, all for Picket Fences; Young Artist Award nomination, best performance by a youth actress in a television miniseries or special, 1995, for A Perfect Stranger.

CREDITS

Film Appearances:

Classmate in flashback, Walls of Glass (also known as Flanagan), United Film Distribution Company, 1985.

Debs Boon, Sweet Hearts Dance, TriStar, 1988.

(Uncredited) Costume party guest, "Life without Zoe," New York Stories, Buena Vista, 1989.

(Uncredited) Jenny, Born on the Fourth of July, Universal, 1989.

Kim, Simple Men (also known as Uomini semplici), Fine Line, 1992.

Jennifer Campbell, Dr. Giggles, Universal, 1992.

Diana, Chain of Desire, Prism Pictures, 1992.

Sharon, A Reason to Believe, Castle Hill Productions, 1995.

Herself, Ocean's Eleven (also known as 11 and O11), Warner Bros., 2001.

Television Appearances; Series:

Kimberly Brock, Picket Fences, CBS, 1992-96.

Piper Halliwell, Charmed, The WB, 1998-2006.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Amanda, A Perfect Stranger (also known as Danielle Steele's "A Perfect Stranger"), NBC, 1994.

Sophia DiMatteo, Sins of Silence, CBS, 1996.

Diane Zamora, Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder (also known as Swearing Allegiance), NBC, 1997.

Alex Morrell, Daughters (also known as Our Mother's Murder), NBC, 1997.

Natash Nutley, See Jane Date, ABC Family, 2003.

Kathy Alden, Point of Entry (also known as Panic Button), Lifetime, 2007.

Television Appearances; Specials:

The 1999 Teen Choice Awards, Fox, 1999.

The Women of "Charmed" (documentary), E! Entertainment Television, 2000.

Intimate Portrait: Alyssa Milano, Lifetime, 2003.

"Charmed": Behind the Magic, 2003.

"Charmed": Access All Areas, 2005.

"Charmed": Life's a Witch, 2005.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Anne Pryce, "Billable Hours," Relativity, ABC, 1997.

Voice of Zoe, "Phish Phry," Gary & Mike, 2001.

"Alyssa Milano," Revealed with Jules Asner, E! Entertainment Television, 2002.

E! News Daily (also known as E! News Live and E! News Live Weekend), E! Entertainment Television, 2003.

The Sharon Osbourne Show (also known as Sharon), 2004.

The Tony Danza Show, syndicated, 2005.

Roxy, Monster Allergy, 2006.

Entertainment Tonight (also known as E.T.), syndicated, 2007.

Also appeared in The Guiding Light; As the World Turns; Live with Regis and Kathy Lee; "Alyssa Milano," Celebrity Profile; Grace Winchester, Eureka (also known as A Town Called Eureka).

Television Work; Series:

Producer, Charmed, The WB, 2002-2006.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Bikini Magazine, September, 1999.

Cosmopolitan, December, 2000.

Entertainment Weekly, December 25, 1998, p. 22.

In Style, November, 1999.

Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1995.

People Weekly, December 28, 1998, p. 114.

Seventeen, November, 2001.

Sun Newspapers, July 10, 1997.

Ultimate TV, April 29, 1999.

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