Holly Marie Combs

Holly Marie Combs, familiar to audiences for her role as teen-aged Kimberly Brock on the Emmy-Award winning series "Picket Fences," returns to series television in "Charmed."

Combs was born in San Diego, California, 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 as the insightful daughter of parents played by Tom Skerritt and Kathy Baker 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," a rape victim in "Sins of Silence," and Robert Urich's daughter in Danielle Steel's "A Perfect Stranger."

In feature films, Combs played a young girl propositioned by a wheelchair-bound Tom Cruise in the 1989 Vietnam War Saga "Born on the Fourth of July." Additional big-screen credits include the horror drama "Dr. Giggles," "Chain of Desire" with Malcolm McDowell and Linda Fiorentino, and "Simple Men."

Off screen, Combs enjoys gardening and horseback riding. She currently lives in Los Angeles.