James Van Der Beek
James Van Der Beek
James David Van Der Beekis an American actor. He rose to fame beginning in 1998 for his portrayal of Dawson Leery in the WB series Dawson's Creek and for portraying a fictionalized version of himself on the ABC sitcom Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. He also starred in CSI: Cyber as FBI Special Agent Elijah Mundo...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth8 March 1977
CityCheshire, CT
CountryUnited States of America
I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
I've only dyed my hair blond once, after 'Varsity Blues.'
Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
You know, I'm not big on conspiracy theory. It does really kind of get my blood going when I find out there really are conspiracies that actually happened.
You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.
I'm not about to talk about what's romantic in my life - I figure if you talk about it once - then that's an open invitation for everyone to dig into your personal life even further
It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want
You are incredibly fortunate whatever success falls on you, which is what happened with me,
Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain... If you could bottle up and distribute this feeling, I swear there'd be no more war.
I was dyslexic, so math and formulas were not necessarily my strong suit.
I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.
You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?
I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.