"At age 15, his mother drove him to New York City to find an agent at his request, and he made his off-Broadway debut the following year in a production of Edward Albee's one-act play, Finding the Sun. In 1995, he acted in his first feature film, Angus, a coming-of-age story in which he played a school bully. Two years later, he was studying English at Drew University when he won the Dawson's Creek part."
"During his Dawson years, Van Der Beek also starred in the cult-classic 1999 film Varsity Blues, in which he played a small-town football quarterback. Throughout the aughts and 2010s, the actor played roles in the teen drama One Tree Hill, hit comedy How I Met Your Mother, and in the critically lauded Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, in which he played a fictionalized version of himself. He most recently appeared in the 2025 comedy Overcompensating."
James Van Der Beek was born March 8, 1977, in Cheshire, Connecticut. At 15 his mother drove him to New York City to find an agent; he made his off-Broadway debut in Edward Albee's Finding the Sun and appeared in the 1995 film Angus. He won the Dawson's Creek role while studying at Drew University and left school to film the six-season series. He also starred in Varsity Blues and had roles in One Tree Hill, How I Met Your Mother, and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. He appeared in the 2025 comedy Overcompensating and is survived by his wife, Kimberly Brook, and six children; their Beverly Hills home received a 2020 makeover by designer Tammy Price.
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