Dawson's Creek's Joey, Dawson, Pacey and Jen kept fans captivated with their deep and meaningfuls, and here's what came next for the stars once the cameras left Capeside
Back in the late '90s and early 2000s, Dawson's Creek was essential viewing for angst-ridden teens everywhere.
Meanwhile, Jen's little girl was adopted by her best friend Jack McPhee and his partner, Doug Witter, Pacey's older brother. But what happened to the stars of the show since it ended? From life-shattering loss to Oscar winners, Scientology and suicide, a lot has happened since the cameras left Capeside...
James certainly seems to know how to poke fun at himself and his younger alter-ego of Dawson. In 2008, he bagged a part in teen drama One Tree Hill as a filmmaker who could not have been more different from Dawson if he tried. Two years later, he played a make-believe version of himself in the TV series, Don't Trust the B**** in Apartment 23, which he earned rave reviews for.
Katie Holmes As the sassy and sweet girl next door, Joey Potter was the character all girls wanted to be and all boys wanted to date. And the actress has rarely been out of the headlines since her time on the show - in part because of her ill-fated marriage to Hollywood megastar, Tom Cruise. Just six years later, Katie blindsided Tom by filling for divorce from her Scientologist husband. She has never spoken publicly about her marriage but has sole custody of Suri and went on to date actor Jamie Foxx. She is now in a relationship with chef Emilio Vitolo, Jr.
And she was shattered by Heath's death aged just 28 the following year, and when it came to selling the home they'd once shared in 2014, she was heartbroken. “At that time, I was inconsolable, because I felt, ‘How will he be able to find us? This is where we lived and he won’t know where we are,'" she told WSJ Magazine in 2017.
And he appeared in Cruel Intentions while he was playing Pacey before a raft of film roles with some of the biggest names in Hollywood followed. Joshua, 42, starred opposite Dennis Hopper in Americano, Harvey Keitel in Shadows In The Sun and Donald Sutherland in Aurora Borealis. He then took to the stage alongside Patrick Stewart in London's West End but it seemed Joshua's heart belonged in TV.
Kerr Smith Despite playing 16-year-old Jack in Dawson's Creek, Kerr was actually 26 when he joined the cast. Jack's coming out scenes influenced a generation of struggling teenagers. Busy Philipps Busy didn't appear as Audrey in Dawson's Creek until the gang all relocated to college but soon became a fan favourite.
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