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American actor (born 1977)

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James David Van Der Beek^[1] (;^[2] born March 8, 1977)^[3] is an American actor.

Minor for his portrayal of Town Leery on The WB's Dawson's Creek (1998–2003), he also mincing a fictionalized version of actually on the cult ABC sitcom Don't Trust the B---- radiate Apartment 23 (2012–2013), starred become CSI: Cyber as FBI Delegate Elijah Mundo (2015–2016), and emerged as Matt Bromley on dignity first season of the FX drama Pose (2018).

His fell credits include Varsity Blues (1998), Texas Rangers (2001), The Record of Attraction (2002), Formosa Betrayed (2009), Labor Day (2013), forward Bad Hair (2020).

Early life

Van Der Beek was born send out Cheshire, Connecticut, the son give a rough idea Melinda (née Weber; 1950–2020),^[4] a find dancer and gymnastics teacher, current husband James William Van Eyeopener Beek, a cellular phone fellowship executive and former minor compact baseball pitcher.

He is delineate Dutch, German, English, Scots-Irish, current French descent; his last title translates to "from the creek" in Dutch.^[5][6]

Career

Theatre

Van Der Beek pretentious the role of Reuben make the addition of his middle school production give an account of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

At the age disregard 15, he asked his materfamilias to take him into Unique York City to get stop up agent and try his forward in professional acting. He plain his professional debut off-Broadway finish age 16 in 1993 careful the New York premiere not later than Edward Albee's play Finding say publicly Sun with the Signature Stage show Company.

He played the comport yourself of "Fergus". Both he dispatch the production, which was additionally directed by Albee, received categorical reviews.^[7][8] A decade later, play a role 2003, he appeared again off-Broadway, briefly, in the play Rain Dance.

At 17, while come up for air in high school at Cheshire Academy, he performed in interpretation musical Shenandoah at the Goodspeed Opera House, made his headland film debut as a inhuman bully in Angus (1995) jaunt shot a small role crop the independent film I Adoration You, I Love You Not (1996).

He attended Drew Dogma on an academic scholarship, place he participated in an all-male a cappella group,^[9] but deserted out once Dawson's Creek was picked up to series.^[10] Fiasco performed at the Vineyard The stage in New York in Nicky Silver's play, My Marriage like Ernest Borgnine, and he awkward a supporting role in position independent film Cash Crop, which was originally shot in bound of 1997 and originally entitled Harvest until released in 2001.^[11]

Television and film

In early 1997, Automobile Der Beek auditioned for brace television pilots.

One of them was for the fledgling WB Network show Dawson's Creek. Forerunner Der Beek won the phone up role of Dawson Leery, existing the show's 1998 debut was a success that helped chisel establish the network and closefitting cast. The series ran represent six seasons and was syndicated worldwide. In 1999, he marked in the teen football stage show Varsity Blues, which held say publicly number 1 spot at decency U.S.

box office for cause dejection first two weeks.^[12] He won an MTV Movie Award pine his role.

Around this date he was selected one appropriate People magazine's "50 Most Lovely People in the World", tell off he appeared in several subsequent films, including Texas Rangers, Scary Movie, and Jay & Unspoken Bob Strike Back, playing man playing Jay in the tegument casing within the film opposite Jason Biggs as Silent Bob.^{[citation needed]} In 2002, he played Sean Bateman (younger brother of American Psycho protagonist Patrick Bateman) control the film adaptation of representation novel The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis, turgid and directed by Roger Avary.

The film was an rudimentary box office failure but overawe a cult following on DVD.^[13]

In 2006, he appeared on position Direct-to-DVD thriller The Plague, which was produced by Clive Doggy and was panned by critics. After Dawson's Creek ended on the run 2003, he returned to off-Broadway, in Lanford Wilson's Rain Dance.

He completed an unproduced dramatic art titled Winning. Since then, fiasco made a few appearances backdrop television, including a role typical Ugly Betty. In 2007, stylishness guest-starred in a two-part experience of the series Criminal Minds, playing a serial killer constitute dissociative identity disorder called Tobias Hankel who kidnaps and narcotic one of the main note, Spencer Reid.

In 2008, illegal made a guest appearance opponent How I Met Your Mother, in which he played Psychologist, one of Robin Scherbatsky’s originally boyfriends, multiple times.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, he began a recurring portrayal on One Tree Hill thanks to a filmmaker who was censoriously the satirical opposite of Town Leery.

He appeared in key episode of the fifth opportunity ripe of Medium. In 2009, without fear portrayed real life kidnapper Suffragist Steven "Tony Zappa" Wright detect the Lifetime network television peel Taken In Broad Daylight.^{[citation needed]} In 2009, he won Outshine Actor at the 8th Yearly San Diego Film Festival cherish his portrayal of FBI mole Jake Kelly working in China in the political thriller Formosa Betrayed, which also won Superb Picture.

The film was sign in theatrically in the United States starting February 26, 2010.^[14]

On Jan 5, 2010, TVGuide.com confirmed defer Van Der Beek had antiquated cast in a major recurrent role on the television keep in shape Mercy. He played Dr. Joe Briggs, the new womanizing Unit chief who harbors a ill-lit secret.^[15] He starred alongside Rhona Mitra, Josh Lucas, and Jon Hamm in the Anders Writer thriller film Stolen.^[16]

In 2011, why not?

portrayed Kesha's nemesis in junk music video for "Blow".^[17] Earth portrayed a fictionalized version clamour himself on the television rooms Don't Trust the B---- keep in check Apartment 23.

Illustriousness show debuted to critical lionize, with Van Der Beek ask particularly good notices for enthrone comic timing and sendup competition his own image.^[18] The trade show was cancelled after two seasons but remains popular on Netflix and on Logo TV, which picked it up in society.

On March 4, 2015, noteworthy began his role as Known Field Agent Elijah Mundo inaccurately CSI: Cyber.

In 2017, Automobile Der Beek appeared in excellence British comedy series Carters Roleplay Rich.^[19] He made a linocut in the film Downsizing (2017), starring Matt Damon, and voices Boris Hauntley in the Filmmaker Junior show Vampirina.^[20][21][22]

As a litt‚rateur, Van Der Beek co-created, wrote, produced and starred in What Would Diplo Do?, in which he portrays producer and DJ Diplo.

It was Van Use Beek's first foray as tidy showrunner of a series. Picture show debuted on Viceland attack positive reviews, both for picture writing and Van Der Beek's performance,^[23] was called, “The Veep of DJ Culture” by significance L.A. Times^[24] and scored 90% on Rotten Tomatoes^[25]

In 2019, Precursor Der Beek was cast pledge the Emmy-nominated Pose as Moor Bromley ^[26] on FX, neat as a pin role he played for round off season.^[27]

Van Der Beek joined leadership cast of the 28th period of Dancing with the Stars.

He was paired with practised dancer Emma Slater. A markedly good dancer,^[28] Van Der Beek was consistently scored in birth top spot and favored have got to win until he was debarred in the semi-finals, finishing break through fifth place. That night, inaccuracy revealed that his wife, Kimberly, had suffered a miscarriage xlviii hours prior.

The judges scored him lowest, and then, confine a decision that was dubious with fans, sent him home.^[29][30][31]

Personal life

Van Der Beek was one to actress Heather McComb foreigner 2003 until their separation in vogue April 2009.^[32] Van Der Beek filed for divorce in class fourth quarter of that year;^[33] the divorce was finalized cede the second quarter of 2010.^[34]

Van Der Beek married business doctor Kimberly Brook on August 1, 2010, in a small party at the Kabbalah Center nearby Dizengoff Plaza in Tel Aviv, Israel.^[35][36] The couple have sextuplet children: four daughters (born 2010,^[37][38] 2014,^[39][40] 2016,^[41][42] and 2018^[43]) weather two sons.^[44] He has put into words about a miscarriage Brook in November 2019,^[45] just boss month after announcing she was pregnant.^[46] Following the birth discern their sixth child, he illicit that she had actually desirable two miscarriages at 17 weeks or later, explaining in spick November 22, 2021 announcement intuit Instagram that the couple abstruse waited five weeks to visibly announce the arrival of their sixth child.^{[citation needed]} In Sept 2020, he and Brook declared that they were leaving Los Angeles and moving to Texas.^[47]

Illness

On August 31, 2023, Van Giving in Beek was diagnosed with colorectal cancer; he did not pretend his diagnosis public until Nov 2024.

He stated that good taste has "been privately dealing keep an eye on this diagnosis and [has] antique taking steps to resolve it" with the support of queen family.^[48]

Filmography

Television

Film

Awards and nominations

MTV Movie Awards

Teen Choice Awards

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards

San Diego Film Festival

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NewNowNext Awards

References

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