Kristin Davis

Giuliana and Bill Rancic Interview New Mama Kristin Davis

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G&B: How did you feel when you first brought Gemma home?

KD: All of my friends told me that I would be great with a baby, but I was so nervous. Only going through the first days with an infant will tell you that you can, in fact, do it.

G&B: Describe your “mom style” for us.

KD: I would say I’m a mix of Hippie Mom (I still make all of her food myself) and Controlling Mom (I get very worried that she will be cold and overdress her, for example). I lead a pretty natural lifestyle and try to be really careful about what Gemma eats, drinks, and takes in.

G&B: Where do you turn first when you want to scream for help?

KD: My friends. My own mom. And I read Parenting! Sometimes late at night, if I’m worried about something to do with Gemma, I Google my question. It has been helpful, but mostly because you realize that there is not one right answer to anything.

G&B: What do you wish you had done differently with Gemma so far?

KD: I really tried to always prevent Gemma from crying in the beginning. I believed it was possible to take such excellent care of her, to fulfill every need so completely before she grew upset, that I could actually prevent her from crying. Now I understand that A) that idea is not possible and B) babies are just expressing themselves when they cry. It would have been healthier for both of us if I had understood that viscerally in the beginning.

G&B: Are you a softie or a disciplinarian?

KD: I am a softie! But I am working on the disciplinarian side, too. Since I am a single mom, I really need to be both. And as Gemma is getting older, there are so many things that she wants to do that just aren’t safe, so I am gaining skills quickly in the “strict mom” area.

G&B: How has motherhood affected your career decisions?

KD: I feel incredibly choosy about the jobs I take now that I am a mom. I really need the job to allow me to see Gemma every day for a significant part of the day, or I feel profoundly unhappy.

G&B: Are you going to let Gemma watch Sex and the City when she gets older?

KD: I hadn’t thought of what to do about Gemma watching the show until you asked me! Even if I tried, I don’t think I could shield her for long. There are so many reminders, and people talk to me about it every day. So I guess I would show her the edited version that they show in reruns, but not until she is much older!

G&B: We’re brand-new parents—what advice would you give us?

KD: Try to appreciate both of your opinions if you disagree about anything relating to Duke. When I decided to adopt as a single mom, all of my friends said “Well, at least you won’t have anyone disagreeing with you about what to do.” And while I can see they were trying to be positive, there are times when I wish I had a sounding board, even if that sounding board disagreed! There are so many decisions to be made, sometimes disagreements just make you think a little deeper about something. Though I’m sure you two never disagree!

Kristin Davis joins ‘Bad Teacher’ on CBS

admin — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:34:35 +0000

LOS ANGELES, March 15 — The actress who played Charlotte in “Sex and the City” will take part in the CBS comedy based on the movie “Bad Teacher,” taking on the role played by Lucy Punch in the movie.

Not much has been heard from Kristin Davis since the end of the HBO series that made her famous the world over.

But the actress is set to make a TV comeback as Ginny, a highly regarded history teacher who runs the school choir.

Meredith Davis is a new teacher who took the job to find a rich husband and takes no interest in her students, instead drinking and smoking in class.

The part played by Cameron Diaz in the movie will be played by Ari Graynor (“Fringe”) in the CBS pilot.

“Community” and “Earl” screenwriter Hilary Winston will adapt “Bad Teacher” for TV.

Sara Gilbert (“Roseanne,” “The Big Bang Theory”), David Alan Grier (“In Living Color”) and Ryan Hansen (“Veronica Mars”) will also feature in the pilot. – AFP-Relaxnews

Tommy Hilfiger | West Coast Flagship and Partnership with P.S. Arts

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:21:28 +0000

In honor of the new flagship opening, The Tommy Hilfiger Corporate Foundation is proud to announce its partnership with P.S. ARTS and commitment to endow and develop a multi-year arts education curriculum in two schools in the Los Angeles school district, Walgrove Elementary School and Grand View Elementary.Hosted by Tommy & Dee Hilfiger with Jessica Alba & Cash Warren, Zooey Deschanel, Maria Bell and Elizabeth Stewart. With Ed Westwick, Kristin Davis, Jenna Elfman, Julianne Hough, Gabriel Mann, Natasha Bedingfield, Olympian Nathan Adrian, Golfer Keegan Bradley, Cameron Silver, Christos Garkinos, Ludo Lefebvre and more, including, “The Hilfigers” – including Max Rogers, Arthur Kulkov, Bernard Fouquet, Chloe Blackshire, and Morgan IV and V the dogs.

Kristin Davis And Others Talk Hunger Relief At Google

admin — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 04:08:20 +0000

By By Chris Crum via webpronews.com
Google has posted video from a recent Google Talk called Oxfam: Ending Poverty And Hunger Starts With You, featuring atress and Oxfam Global Ambassador Kristin Davis, farmer Susan Godwin, chef and TV personality Aarti Sequeira, Oxfam America President Raymond C. Offenheiser, and Google Social Responsibility Manager Diane Solinger.

The group discuss hunger relief issues for about an hour in front of an audience of Googlers.

Don’t Miss Kristin on “The Doctors”

admin — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 03:59:47 +0000

Check out Kristin on The Doctors 9AM EST Nov. 21. She will be discussing Zarbee’s and cold and flu season.

Kristin’s Charity

admin — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 17:20:42 +0000

Kristin Davis as always had a love for Elephants, and now she is combining that love with another altruistic passion of hers, philanthropy.

While already working with DSWT (David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust) Kristin was doing a walkabout in Africa in 2009. There she discovered an abandoned baby elephant (Chaimu) and arranged for him to be taken to a wildlife rehabilitation center. There she had a chance to see firsthand the intake process of elephants when they are rescued, the bonds the animal creates with its handlers and caretakers. Which made her want to get even MORE involved.

In recognition of the attention she has brought to the plight of orphaned African elephants, Davis won the Humane Society’s 2010 Wyler Award, which is bestowed on a celebrity or public figure that has made news on behalf of animals.

With the prestige that comes with that award, and the notoriety Davis has from her acting career, she has joined forces with IWORRY.ORG to launch the brand new DSWT Campaign.

The campaign was introduced to 220 guests attending a prestigious gala in London and encouraged all of them to stand up to poachers and say NO to the ivory trade in order to protect elephants for future generations.
Davis is encouraging everyone to add their voice to the campaign and help vote against any movement to allow the legal sale of ivory stockpiles at any time.

The most effective thing you can do to help bring an end to the ivory trade is to write to your country’s representative at CITES (www.CITES.org). Go to the ‘Member Countries’ area of the website to find which party represents your country at CITES.

They are aiming to secure 36,000 signatures between now and March, 2013. So go over to IWORRY.ORG and sign the petition. Join Kristin as she helps stop the scourge that is poachers and ivory hunters and makes it safe for elephants, before there are none left to protect.

Kristin Davis: ‘Ivory is basically a blood diamond’

admin — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:30:48 +0000

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Kristin Davis feeding a baby elephant in Kenya

‘They tied the elephant to the tree till it died and then sawed its face off – walk half a mile and there’ll be another one. It’s bad’

When Kristin Davis became involved with wildlife conservation, the combination of celebrity and cause probably seemed less incongruous. On holiday in a Kenyan safari park, the actor, who made her name as prim heiress Charlotte York in hit TV show Sex and the City, joined the hunt for a lost baby elephant when a Maasai elder waved down the truck in which she was travelling and raised the alarm.

She followed the trail for two days, and filmed what happened when the team found the animal, later named Chaimu after the lava rocks where she was found.

“She kept trying to charge us, she was so traumatised and angry. We had to cover her eyes and tie her feet, you feel so horrible but you know you’re helping them, and wet her skin down because she was so hot. She had been eating dirt so her digestive system was all messed up, and you can’t feed them water when they are lying down in case it gets in their lungs so eventually we had to get her up and un-blindfold her so she could drink with her trunk in the proper way, and then we had to carry her on a people stretcher which was kind of hysterical.”

Back at the eco-tourism lodge where Davis was staying, the rangers called the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust whose staff arrived with supplies of elephant formula milk, antibiotics, and a plane in which to transport Chiamu to the famous nursery where Dame Daphne Sheldrickpioneered the hand-rearing of orphaned wild animals.

Davis checked up on Chaimu’s progress via email and was delighted, when she offered to help with a fundraiser the Sheldricks were holding in New York, to realise they had no idea who she was.

“They didn’t know who I was which was fantastic! I didn’t know they didn’t know who I was but whatever, it didn’t matter, right? So I had this pure relationship with them for a good long time before they realised I was an actress. Even now it’s very hard to get them to ask me to do anything, they’re so shy and reticent, I mean it’s adorable!”

As Davis recounts all this over a starter-sized chicken salad in the packed restaurant of a Covent Garden hotel, it sounds like a distant memory. Nowadays she is the patron and very public face of the charity founded in memory of David Sheldrick, first warden of Tsavo national park, and is in London for a black-tie dinner to launch a new anti-ivory campaign.

In a knee-length red dress and red heels at least six inches high, with a publicist on hand to whisk her off to the next appointment, she looks every inch the entertainment A-lister who over the summer dated West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin, and made her Broadway debut alongside Cybill Shepherd and Angela Lansbury playing a presidential candidate’s wife in a revival of Gore Vidal’s play The Best Man.

Davis’s website shows cheerful pictures of her grinning as she feeds a baby elephant with a giant bottle. Yet as we talk, the heart-warming side of her charity work – the infants rescued, the bonds formed, the happy endings of animals successfully returned to the wild bringing their babies back to visit the orphanage – is soon overshadowed by horror. Drawn to what she saw as an inspiring place where dedicated people were making their mark on nature, Davis now finds herself at the epicentre of a wildlife disaster.

Estimates suggest around 38,000 elephants were slaughtered for their ivory in sub-Saharan Africa last year. No one knows how many survive in conflict zones in Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia, where rare forest elephants are even more at risk. Meanwhile rhinos teeter on the brink of extinction, with fewer than 25,000 left. Seizures of illegal ivory rose from 13 in 2007 to 448 last year, and is likely to rise again in 2012.

The reason is increased demand in China and Thailand where ivory has been prized for centuries and more people can now afford to buy it. Last month a report on the front page of the New York Times attempted to map the connections between civil war in Africa, consumers in Asia and criminal traffickers, and suggested that warlords including Joseph Kony are using proceeds of illegal ivory sales to buy arms.

“Ivory is basically a blood diamond,” Davis says, “if you buy it, you’re buying the new blood diamonds.”

Unlike rhino horn, gathered for non-existent medicinal properties, chiefly sold in Vietnam and entirely illegal, ivory can be bought and sold legally. The “Say no to ivory” campaign that Davis is fronting aims to change this by persuading the 2013 meeting of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) to prevent African governments from selling stockpiled ivory, arguing that such licenses stimulate the market and fuel poaching. On the other side, southern African countries supported by some NGOs argue that the income from legal sales helps support elephant conservation. All agree that the Cites decision is crucial.

But while reports increasingly focus on militarisation, with wildlife patrols and poachers engaged in an arms race, and NGOs plead with governments to address the role of organised crime, it is the way unarmed villagers have begun killing the animals that makes Davis cry.

“You’d like to hear some gruesomeness? All right” she says, as she describes going to see an elephant trapped by its foot in stolen electricity cable, then tied to a tree around which it walked for several days until it died.

“And then they saw its face off, and then you walk like half a mile and there’ll be another one. It’s bad. It’s really hard. But this is the truth of what’s happening and someone needs to pay attention.”

Tears dabbed from beneath her eyes with a napkin, she says she admires actor Colin Firth and his wife Livia for their environmental activism, and talks of her nerves about US presidential election: “I don’t know if actors talking about their opinions helps but I’m for women’s rights and women’s choices so obviously that doesn’t really go with the Republican side.”

Up all night with her teething baby daughter while working in New York over the summer (14-month-old Gemma, adopted last year by Davis at one day old, is with her mother while she is away), Davis is already planning their first trip to Kenya together. “I figure if I’m going to mess her sleep up it should be for something really good. Kids go to the nursery all the time and they love it. Little elephants are so cute and they play soccer, and they get in the mud.”

A film script she was sent recently did not live up to Gore Vidal but she rejects the idea that it is all doom and gloom for women actors over 40 (Davis is 47). “Look at Meryl Streep’s career. Of course she’s a genius, I’m not saying I’m a genius, but at least there are people out there now that you can look to and say, wow.”

Sometimes she thinks about giving it all up and moving to Kenya, but then her friends the Sheldricks beg her not to – “because they need me to be able to talk to people like yourself”.

“That’s one thing about ageing,” she says. “You kind of get to a point where you don’t feel so ambitious any more, you know? It’s a good feeling.”

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Kristin Davis and John Stamos Pop by ‘Good Morning America’

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Good Morning America got a triple dose of star power this morning when Chris Colfer, John Stamos and Kristin Davis all swung by the ABC studios in NYC to promote their projects.

Click here to see the interview!

Confirmed! Kristin Davis to Join THE BEST MAN

admin — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 07:52:16 +0000

via broadwayworld.com
Golden Globe Award winner Cybill Shepherd, Emmy Award nominee John Stamos, Emmy Award nominee Kristin Davis and Tony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley will join the cast of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN this July when original cast members Candice Bergen, Eric McCormack, Kerry Butler and Angela Lansbury depart the production.

Shepherd, Stamos and Davis will begin performances on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at 7:00pm, while Ashley will begin on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at 7:00pm.

Original cast members James Earl Jones, John Larroquette, Jefferson Mays, as well as Mark Blum, who replaced the injured Michael McKean, will remain with the production through its final performance on Sunday, September 9, 2012.

Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN also features Curtis Billings, Corey Brill, Tony Carlin, Donna Hanover, Sherman Howard, Olja Hrustic, Bill Kux, James Lecesne, Dakin Matthews, Angelica Page, Fred Parker, Jr. and Amy Tribbey.

Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN received 2012 Tony Award nominations for Best Revival of a Play as well as a Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play nomination for James Earl Jones. The critically-acclaimed production of Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN, which was originally scheduled to play through July 8, 2012, has been extended twice, now playing through Sunday, September 9, 2012 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street). Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased at Telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.

The production is directed by Drama Desk Award winner MICHAEL WILSON (The Orphans Home Cycle Part I, II and III, Dividing The Estate). The design team includes Tony and Drama Desk Award winning scenic designer DEREK McLANE (33 Variations, Anything Goes), Tony and Drama Desk Award winning lighting designer KENNETH POSNER (The Coast of Utopia, Part 2 – Shipwreck), five-time Tony Award nominated costume designer ANN ROTH (The Book of Mormon), Drama Desk Award winning sound designer JOHN GROMADA (Seminar, The Orphans’ Home Cycle) and projection designer PETER NIGRINI (Fela!, 9 to 5: The Musical).

Gore Vidal’s THE BEST MAN is produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, INFINITY Stages, Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Barbara Manocherian/Michael Palitz, The Broadway Consortium/Ken Mahoney, Kathleen K. Johnson, Fifty Church Street Productions, Larry Hirschhorn/Bennu Productions, Patty Baker, Paul Boskind and Martian Entertainment, Wendy Federman, Mark S. Golub & David S. Golub, Cricket Hooper Jiranek, Stewart F. Lane & Bonnie Comley, Carl Moellenberg, Harold Thau, Will Trice.

Visit www.thebestmanonbroadway.com for information.