James Van Der Beek, the actor who recently passed away (on February 11, 2026) at the age of 48 after battling colorectal cancer.
He was born on March 8, 1977, in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. His full name was James David Van Der Beek. He began acting as a teenager after a football injury forced him to step away from sports for a while—at that point, he got involved in school theater and fell in love with it. His…