Holly Marie Combs is an American actress and television producer. She is known for playing Kimberly Brock in the CBS TV show Picket Fences, Piper Halliwell in Charmed, and Ella Montgomery in the Freeform/Warner Bros. TV show Pretty Little Liars.
Early life[]
Combs was born in San Diego, California, and is of Irish descent. At the time of her birth, her mother, Lauralei Combs was 15 years old, and her father was 17. Combs' biological parents married, but the two split up after two years, feeling they were too young to make a marriage work.
While Combs was learning to walk, she fell and hit her head on a marble table, resulting in a noticeable 'split' at the top of her right eyebrow. She lived in many different homes with her mother, near the beach in San Diego, often having very little privacy, while her mother attempted to pursue an acting career. When Combs was seven, she and her mother moved to New York City where she spent most of her growing years. Combs was 12 when her mother married her stepfather. In New York City, Combs attended Beekman Hill Elementary and then the Professional Children's School. In an interview when she was in Sydney, Australia, for Supanova Expo, she said that she was a certified scuba diver at 13.
