Kathleen and Martin Holmes
Actress Katie Holmes became a major Hollywood star who married and divorced a famous star, too. But her mother, Kathleen Holmes is a fun-loving homemaker, while her father, Martin Holmes, is a divorce attorney. In fact, his career allowed him to guide his daughter during her high-profile divorce to Tom Cruise.
Judith Hawkins
Halle Berry’s upbringing was tough. Her father is a hospital attendant named Jerome Berry, who abandoned her and his family. This forced Berry’s mother, a retired psychiatric nurse named Judith Hawkins to move to Bedford, Cleveland. So the future actress and her older sister, Heidi, had to rely emotionally on their mother while facing many adversities over being biracial in a predominately white neighborhood.
