Known For: American actor (born 1977)
Category: Actors
Occupation: actor, stage actor, television actor, film actor, screenwriter
Country: United States of America
City: Cheshire
Date of Birth: Tuesday, 08 March 1977
Language English
James William Van Der Beek is an American actor. Known for his portrayal of Dawson Leery on The WB's Dawson's Creek (1998–2003), he also played a fictionalized version of himself on the cult ABC sitcom Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 (2012–2013), starred on CSI: Cyber as FBI Agent Elijah Mundo (2015–2016), and appeared as Matt Bromley on the first season of the FX drama Pose (2018). His film credits include Varsity Blues (1998), Texas Rangers (2001), The Rules of Attraction (2002), Formosa Betrayed (2009), Labor Day (2013), and Bad Hair (2020).
| BirthPlace | Cheshire |
| Education | Q1795487, Q5092939 |
| Spouses | Kimberly Van Der Beek, Heather McComb |
| Website | http://vanderbeek.com/ |
| Wikipedia | James_Van_Der_Beek |
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Van Der Beek was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, the son of Melinda (née Weber) (1950-2020), a former dancer and gymnastics teacher, and husband James William Van Der Beek, a cellular phone company executive and former minor league baseball pitcher. He is of Dutch, German, English, Scots-Irish, and French descent; his last name translates to "from the creek" in Dutch.
