"Kristin Davis" first earned recognition as the pretentiously rich "schemer" she played on Fox's Melrose Place in the mid-'90s. As Brooke, she was constantly creating problems for the more regular characters, and just a year after gaining full-time character status, she had to be written off the show because of viewer dissatisfaction. However, doe-eyed "Davis" would find an abundance of work on television and in film, and demonstrate more versatility than she had as the "meanie" on Melrose.

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