Six months after Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek died after a tough battle with colorectal cancer, his wife Kimberly Van Der Beek, 44, shared a loving reflection about the star, whom she married in 2010. The beauty of this marriage continues to unfold everyday with all these incredible children we have. Instagram contentThe final picture in the post featured James Van Der Beek embracing the couples’ six children: Olivia, Joshua, Annabel, Emilia, Gwendolyn, and Jeremiah. Born in 1977, James Van Der Beek became a global star in the late 1990s playing Dawson Leery in the cult series Dawson’s Creek. In September 2025, Dawson’s Creek costar Michelle Williams organized a one-night only special cast reading of the show’s pilot.