VARIOUS: Tom Cruise and fiancee Katie Holmes celebrate the birth of daughter Suri

Record ID: 225607

  • Title: VARIOUS: Tom Cruise and fiancee Katie Holmes celebrate the birth of daughter Suri
  • Date: 19th April 2006
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (RECENT) (REUTERS) PAPARAZZI IN FRONT OF CRUISE BEVERLY HILLS MANSION; PAPARAZZI IN FRONT OF CRUISE MANSION; GATES OF CRUISE MANSION; PAPARAZZI MILLING OUTSIDE MANSION (5 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 4th May 2006 13:00
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  • Topics: Entertainment
  • Reuters ID: LVA8KSP9AS5UC4JBZGRHRC75C8VX
  • Story Text: Actress Katie Holmes, who became engaged last June to actor Tom Cruise, gave birth on Tuesday (April 18, 2006) to the couple's first child, a baby girl they named Suri who weighed in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces (3.4 kg) at birth, their spokesman said.
    Mother and child were "doing well," Cruise's publicist, Paul Bloch, said in a statement.
    The name Suri has it origins in Hebrew, meaning "princess," or in Persian meaning "red rose," the statement said.
    The birth came as Cruise, 43, is in the midst of a promotional campaign for his upcoming film "Mission: Impossible III," which is due out in May.
    The three-time Oscar nominee has two older children that he adopted during his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman, 13-year-old daughter Isabella and 11-year-old son Connor.
    News that Holmes, 27, has given birth caps a whirlwind Hollywood romance that ranks as one of the most high-profile celebrity courtships in recent memory, one that became the tabloid sensation known as "TomKat."
    The couple began dating last April, but the romance really jumped into the spotlight with Cruise's manic, couch-hopping appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" last May, when the actor giddily professed his love for Holmes during an hour-long interview.
    Footage of the twice-divorced Cruise, jumping on Winfrey's guest sofa, dropping to one knee to pump his fist and ushering Holmes on stage to declare, "I love this woman!" was replayed repeatedly on television. Bootleg copies sold on eBay for 20 U.S dollars.
    The "Oprah" appearance triggered suspicions of a publicity stunt to promote his then new film, "War of the Worlds," and hers, "Batman Begins." It also made Cruise the butt of jokes by TV comedians, tabloid columnists and Internet spoof artists.
    One Web site began hawking "Free Katie" T-shirts, stickers and coffee mugs, a veiled reference to widely circulating jokes that Holmes was being unwittingly indoctrinated by Cruise into the Church of Scientology, of which he is a prominent member.
    The two announced their engagement at a Paris news conference in June last year, the morning after Cruise popped the question to Holmes at the Eiffel Tower. The couple have not set a wedding date.
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