Holmes hit the big time in 1998 as Josephine "Joey" Potter on the coming-of-age TV series Dawson's Creek. (Joey was the best chum and sometime love interest for Dawson, played by James Van Der Beek; the show ended its run in 2003.) Holmes parlayed her TV fame into roles including The Ice Storm (1997, with Tobey Maguire), Go (1999), and the academic dramedy Wonder Boys (2000, with). In 2005 she co-starred with Christian Bale in the big summer movie Batman Begins. In June of the same year she became engaged to actor Tom Cruise after a much-publicized courtship and a proposal from Cruise at the Eiffel Tower..