She received nominations at the Emmys and the Golden Globes in for her role as Charlotte, and reprised the role in the films Sex and the City and Sex and the City 2 , as well as the revival of the show And Just Like That Davis's big break came in , when she was cast as the villainous Brooke Armstrong in the Fox prime time soap opera Melrose Place β Davis was born on February 23, , in Boulder, Colorado. Davis wanted to be an actress from the age of nine, when she was cast in the Workshop Theatre production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Davis lived in South Carolina until she graduated from A. Flora High School in After graduation in , Davis moved to New York and waited tables before opening a yoga studio with a friend. In , she acted in a couple of episodes of the daytime drama soap opera General Hospital. She later guest-starred on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and ER , and acted in made-for-television movies. Her big break came in when she landed the role of villainess Brooke Armstrong Campbell on the Fox nighttime soap opera Melrose Place.
She left the show after one year when producers decided to kill off the character. The following year, Davis guest-starred in two episodes of Seinfeld. In , Davis was cast as Charlotte York in the HBO romantic comedy series Sex and the City and remained an integral cast member until the series ended in In , along with the rest of the cast, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television.
In , she starred in a television pilot entitled Soccer Moms in which she and Gina Torres star as suburban mothers who moonlight as private detectives. Davis made her movie debut in the comedy slasher film Doom Asylum. In s, she had secondary roles in films Nine Months and Sour Grapes Davis appeared in 's Sex and the City feature film , under the direction of executive producer Michael Patrick King.
In , Davis co-starred in the romantic comedy film Couples Retreat , a comedy chronicling four couples who partake in therapy sessions at a tropical island resort. Jon Favreau , who also co-wrote the script, played her husband. In , Davis was credited as producer on the documentary Gardeners of Eden , that comments on the illegal ivory trade. Shortly after the wide release of the Sex and the City feature film, in June , Belk , the nation's largest privately owned department store chain, announced a partnership with Davis.
