Holly Marie Combs (Piper Halliwell )

Holly Marie Combs
(Piper Halliwell )

Holly Marie Combs, popular with audiences for her role as teen-aged Kimberly Brock on the Emmy Award-winning series Picket Fences, returned to series television in Charmed. On the big screen, she is seen in Steven Soderbergh's remake of Ocean's Eleven, opposite George Clooney and Brad Pitt, in which she plays herself, along with Barry Watson and Joshua Jackson.

Combs was born in San Diego, Calif., and moved with her family to New York when she was eight years old. Following in her mother's footsteps as an aspiring actress, she began her career working in television commercials and print advertisements at age 10. She won her first movie role by 13, playing the daughter of Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon in the feature film Sweet Hearts Dance.

At 18, Combs got her big break starring for four seasons in the critically acclaimed drama Picket Fences In television movies, she has played an impressive range of starring roles, including the daughter of a murdered heiress in the fact-based Daughters, killer Diane Zamora in Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder and a rape victim in Sins of Silence. Feature film work includes Born on the Fourth of July, Chain of Desire and Simple Men.