Jack McPhee
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Jack McPhee is a fictional character
portrayed by Kerr Smith
in the American
television drama Dawson's Creek
.
, but soon befriends Joey Potter
. Later, Jack offers to pose nude for Joey as the subject of a portrait for her art class. The two begin dating, but their romance
is quickly ended after rumors circulate about Jack's sexuality. Jack later comes out of the closet and from then on is known as the 'Gay Guy.' Jack becomes good friends with Capeside's instigator, Jen Lindley
. After Grams kicks Jen out and he decides to remain in Capeside, he convinces Jen to move in with him while his sister Andie seeks medical attention at a psychiatric hospital
. Eventually, Jen moves back in with Grams on the condition Jack also moves in.
. At first Jack is to scared to tell her he also is gay, but after an overnight stay in prison for public drunkedness, he reveals to Kate he is gay. The two remain good friends.
Jack is convinced to join the Capeside football
team by Mitch Leery, the new coach. Jack attempts to have a fling with Ethan at the annual Capefest, which fails; however, Jack and Ethan are reunited for the gang's Junior Prom, organized. It is all just another plan orchestrated by Dawson to win Joey back. In the meantime, at the end of prom, Jack finds Ethan has left and chases him to the bus station
where Ethan asks him to prove he is ready for a relationship. Jack cannot prove this, as he is too afraid to kiss Ethan. Weeks later Jack finds himself on a crazy road trip
with Grams, Jen, and Andie chasing after Henry, Jen's football playing boyfriend, so Jen can fix things before he is at football camp. While on the road Grams, Jen and Andie agree to make another stop at Ethan's boarding school so Jack can fix things. Jack rushes up to Ethan and kisses him, only to immediately find Ethan working things out with his ex-boyfriend, Brad. Jack and Ethan’s kiss in the episode “True Love” was the first male gay kiss aired on network television in the USA.
, Jen takes over her spot. He agrees and soon befriends Molly; a shy nine-year-old girl, whose much older sister, Caroline won't stop hitting on Jack. When he reveals to Caroline he's gay, the parents of his team go ballistic, threatening to fire him. But they are careful not to fire Jack 'because he's gay' (As it is illegal to fire someone on the basis of sexual orientation in Massachusetts
.), but because he places Molly in as goalie after they ask him not to.
During the senior
class ski trip, Jack and Jen almost sleep together after getting drunk, when Jen breaks into the liquor cabinet to get rid of her pain; she fell on ice and bruised her thigh. However, Jen quickly puts an end to their sexual encounter. Jen later tricks Jack into going to his senior Prom with Toby, a gay activist she met while doing community service. Following that night Jack and Toby embark on a happy relationship which doesn't end until season five when the distance and the changes they go through in college
tear them apart. At the end of the season, Jack and Jen graduate from Capeside High with the Class of 2001.
year at Boston Bay
College, with Jen. While Jen embarks on a fun little fling with guitarist Charlie Todd, Jack is introduced to the world of the College Fraternity
. Toby and Jack break up after Jack elects to spend more time with his frat; Jack begins partying frequently and as a result fails some classes, endangering his place in college. He turns to alcohol in hopes of making the pain go away. When his frat brothers, particularly, Blossom, learn of his failure, they harass him during a group beerfest at Civilization. A drunken Jack retaliates, punching Blossom in the face. Jack is eventually kicked out of the fraternity because another frat brother tells everyone Jack came on to him when Eric actually came on to Jack. Towards the end during finals, Eric helps Jack get through them by using the Fraternity's information on what the tests are like.
During a spring break
trip to Florida
with the gang, Jen tries to confront Jack about his drinking problem. Jack jumps from the roof of the house, landing face first into the swimming pool. Dawson rescues him, and reassures him everything will turn out okay. When everyone collides at the airport in the season finale, Jack is convinced to stay and work things out with his ex-frat brother, Eric, who has suddenly come out of the closet.
year at Boston Bay, Jack gets dumped by Eric via e-mail after spending a romantic summer with him. But he continues to experiment and date other men. Jack later moves out of Grams's house and in with Pacey and Emma Jones, an aspiring drummer
. While at a Halloween
party with the rest of his friends, Jack meets David, another student, who turns out to be gay. After Jack begins seeing David, he gets trapped in a crush-on-teacher situation when his feelings towards Professor Freeman, a married man, are reciprocated. This forbidden relationship has a direct effect on Jack's grades. Things with Freeman quickly end when the professor leaves town without his wife, who had just lost the couple's child. Jack continues to pursue his fun relationship with David.
Emma reveals that she's engaged to an ill-mannered man named Gus to avoid being sent home due to her visa
expiring; Jack 'proposes', since they already live together. Emma refuses, telling Jack that he's too good of a friend for her to marry in that type of situation. Emma is never seen on screen again. David and Jack eventually do split up for good after David accused Jack of flirting with another gay student.
Jen gathers Jack, C.J. and her mother at Grams's house so that she can tell them about her battle with breast cancer
. When Grams's boyfriend, Bill Braxton (also C.J.'s uncle) burst in and breaks the news, everyone is shocked. Jen then decides that she and Grams should move to New York to live with her mother, and invite Jack to come along for the ride. Jack and Jen transfer to New York University
, which is where Jack had really wanted to go.
's gay brother, Doug Witter are in a relationship. Even six months in, Doug still seems embarrassed to be seen with Jack out in public; the two briefly separate because Jack feels like he is being dragged back into a closet but they are brought back together after learning that Jen is dying due to a heart abnormality that did not show up until she became pregnant with her now 1-year-old daughter, Amy. She is afraid of dying, but most of all, of leaving Amy alone. During a breakdown, she asks Jack to make sure that Amy feels like she belongs. Jack tells Jen that she does belong, that she's always belonged to him and that they're soulmates. After her death, Jack and Doug agree to give their relationship another try and to raise Amy together.
Fictional character
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portrayed by Kerr Smith
Kerr Smith
Kerr Van Cleve Smith is an American actor best known for playing Jack McPhee on The WB drama series Dawson's Creek, Kyle Brody in The WB's, supernatural drama, Charmed and more recently Axel Palmer in My Bloody Valentine 3D...
in the American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
television drama Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek
Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB Television Network and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. The show is set in the fictional seaside town of Capeside, Massachusetts, and in Boston, Massachusetts, during the later seasons...
.
Fictional Biography
The son of Joseph McPhee, Jack is the shy new kid on the block when he and Andie begin their Sophomore year at Capeside High School. It is later revealed he and Andie had an older brother, Tim, who died prior to the series premiere. It is assumed Jack and Andie are fraternal twins, since they are both sophomores, beginning in Season two. Jack and Andie's mother, also named Andrea, is revealed to have a mental condition, something passed down to her only daughter.Season Two
At first, Jack is reluctant to become involved in the communityCommunity
The term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...
, but soon befriends Joey Potter
Joey Potter
Josephine "Joey" Lynn Potter is a fictional character portrayed by Katie Holmes in the American television drama Dawson's Creek.-Character biography:...
. Later, Jack offers to pose nude for Joey as the subject of a portrait for her art class. The two begin dating, but their romance
Romance
Romance or romantic may refer to:* Romance languages, a family of languages originating in south-western Europe.* Romance , a genre of medieval and renaissance narrative fiction* Romance , a type of ballad or lyrical song...
is quickly ended after rumors circulate about Jack's sexuality. Jack later comes out of the closet and from then on is known as the 'Gay Guy.' Jack becomes good friends with Capeside's instigator, Jen Lindley
Jen Lindley
Jennifer "Jen" Lindley is a fictional character on the American television drama Dawson's Creek. The character is portrayed by American actress Michelle Williams.-Season One:...
. After Grams kicks Jen out and he decides to remain in Capeside, he convinces Jen to move in with him while his sister Andie seeks medical attention at a psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, are hospitals specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders. Psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and grading. Some hospitals may specialise only in short-term or outpatient therapy for low-risk patients...
. Eventually, Jen moves back in with Grams on the condition Jack also moves in.
Season Three
After his split from Joey, Jack is reunited with his ex-girlfriend, Kate, the girl to whom he lost his virginity. Kate is still grieving after being dumped by her previous boyfriend, who confessed he was gayGay
Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....
. At first Jack is to scared to tell her he also is gay, but after an overnight stay in prison for public drunkedness, he reveals to Kate he is gay. The two remain good friends.
Jack is convinced to join the Capeside football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
team by Mitch Leery, the new coach. Jack attempts to have a fling with Ethan at the annual Capefest, which fails; however, Jack and Ethan are reunited for the gang's Junior Prom, organized. It is all just another plan orchestrated by Dawson to win Joey back. In the meantime, at the end of prom, Jack finds Ethan has left and chases him to the bus station
Bus station
A bus station is a structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. It is larger than a bus stop, which is usually simply a place on the roadside, where buses can stop...
where Ethan asks him to prove he is ready for a relationship. Jack cannot prove this, as he is too afraid to kiss Ethan. Weeks later Jack finds himself on a crazy road trip
Road trip
A road trip is any journey taken on roads, regardless of stops en route. Typically, road trips are long distances traveled by automobile.-Pre-automobile road trips:...
with Grams, Jen, and Andie chasing after Henry, Jen's football playing boyfriend, so Jen can fix things before he is at football camp. While on the road Grams, Jen and Andie agree to make another stop at Ethan's boarding school so Jack can fix things. Jack rushes up to Ethan and kisses him, only to immediately find Ethan working things out with his ex-boyfriend, Brad. Jack and Ethan’s kiss in the episode “True Love” was the first male gay kiss aired on network television in the USA.
Season Four
At the beginning of the season during a football practice Jack lands wrong on his arm and dislocates it. Since he is unable to play football with a dislocated shoulder, Andie convinces Jack to help her coach a little league soccer team. But once Andie moves to ItalyItaly
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, Jen takes over her spot. He agrees and soon befriends Molly; a shy nine-year-old girl, whose much older sister, Caroline won't stop hitting on Jack. When he reveals to Caroline he's gay, the parents of his team go ballistic, threatening to fire him. But they are careful not to fire Jack 'because he's gay' (As it is illegal to fire someone on the basis of sexual orientation in Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
.), but because he places Molly in as goalie after they ask him not to.
During the senior
Twelfth grade
Twelfth grade or Senior year, or Grade Twelve, are the North American names for the final year of secondary school. In most countries students then graduate at age 17 or 18. In some countries, there is a thirteenth grade, while other countries do not have a 12th grade/year at all...
class ski trip, Jack and Jen almost sleep together after getting drunk, when Jen breaks into the liquor cabinet to get rid of her pain; she fell on ice and bruised her thigh. However, Jen quickly puts an end to their sexual encounter. Jen later tricks Jack into going to his senior Prom with Toby, a gay activist she met while doing community service. Following that night Jack and Toby embark on a happy relationship which doesn't end until season five when the distance and the changes they go through in college
College
A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...
tear them apart. At the end of the season, Jack and Jen graduate from Capeside High with the Class of 2001.
Season Five
Jack begins his FreshmanFreshman
A freshman or fresher is a first-year student in secondary school, high school, or college. The term first year can also be used as a noun, to describe the students themselves A freshman (US) or fresher (UK, India) (or sometimes fish, freshie, fresher; slang plural frosh or freshmeat) is a...
year at Boston Bay
Boston Bay
Boston Bay may refer to:*Boston Bay, Illinois*Port of Boston, Massachusetts*Boston Harbor, Massachusetts* Boston Bay, Port Lincoln, South Australia* Boston Bay, Portland Parish, JamaicaSee also* The Boston Bay State Banner...
College, with Jen. While Jen embarks on a fun little fling with guitarist Charlie Todd, Jack is introduced to the world of the College Fraternity
Fraternity
A fraternity is a brotherhood, though the term usually connotes a distinct or formal organization. An organization referred to as a fraternity may be a:*Secret society*Chivalric order*Benefit society*Friendly society*Social club*Trade union...
. Toby and Jack break up after Jack elects to spend more time with his frat; Jack begins partying frequently and as a result fails some classes, endangering his place in college. He turns to alcohol in hopes of making the pain go away. When his frat brothers, particularly, Blossom, learn of his failure, they harass him during a group beerfest at Civilization. A drunken Jack retaliates, punching Blossom in the face. Jack is eventually kicked out of the fraternity because another frat brother tells everyone Jack came on to him when Eric actually came on to Jack. Towards the end during finals, Eric helps Jack get through them by using the Fraternity's information on what the tests are like.
During a spring break
Spring break
Spring break – also known as March break, Study week or Reading week in the United Kingdom and some parts of Canada – is a recess in early spring at universities and schools in the United States, Canada, mainland China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, the United...
trip to Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
with the gang, Jen tries to confront Jack about his drinking problem. Jack jumps from the roof of the house, landing face first into the swimming pool. Dawson rescues him, and reassures him everything will turn out okay. When everyone collides at the airport in the season finale, Jack is convinced to stay and work things out with his ex-frat brother, Eric, who has suddenly come out of the closet.
Season Six
At the start of his sophomoreSophomore
Sophomore is a term used in the United States to describe a student in the second year of study at high school or university.The word is also used as a synonym for "second", for the second album or EP released by a musician or group, the second movie of a director, or the second season of a...
year at Boston Bay, Jack gets dumped by Eric via e-mail after spending a romantic summer with him. But he continues to experiment and date other men. Jack later moves out of Grams's house and in with Pacey and Emma Jones, an aspiring drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
. While at a Halloween
Halloween
Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
party with the rest of his friends, Jack meets David, another student, who turns out to be gay. After Jack begins seeing David, he gets trapped in a crush-on-teacher situation when his feelings towards Professor Freeman, a married man, are reciprocated. This forbidden relationship has a direct effect on Jack's grades. Things with Freeman quickly end when the professor leaves town without his wife, who had just lost the couple's child. Jack continues to pursue his fun relationship with David.
Emma reveals that she's engaged to an ill-mannered man named Gus to avoid being sent home due to her visa
Visa (document)
A visa is a document showing that a person is authorized to enter the territory for which it was issued, subject to permission of an immigration official at the time of actual entry. The authorization may be a document, but more commonly it is a stamp endorsed in the applicant's passport...
expiring; Jack 'proposes', since they already live together. Emma refuses, telling Jack that he's too good of a friend for her to marry in that type of situation. Emma is never seen on screen again. David and Jack eventually do split up for good after David accused Jack of flirting with another gay student.
Jen gathers Jack, C.J. and her mother at Grams's house so that she can tell them about her battle with breast cancer
Breast cancer
Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...
. When Grams's boyfriend, Bill Braxton (also C.J.'s uncle) burst in and breaks the news, everyone is shocked. Jen then decides that she and Grams should move to New York to live with her mother, and invite Jack to come along for the ride. Jack and Jen transfer to New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, which is where Jack had really wanted to go.
Series Finale
In 2008, Jack is an English teacher at Capeside High School. He and Pacey WitterPacey Witter
Pacey J. Witter is a fictional character on the American television series Dawson's Creek, portrayed by actor Joshua Jackson.-Biography:...
's gay brother, Doug Witter are in a relationship. Even six months in, Doug still seems embarrassed to be seen with Jack out in public; the two briefly separate because Jack feels like he is being dragged back into a closet but they are brought back together after learning that Jen is dying due to a heart abnormality that did not show up until she became pregnant with her now 1-year-old daughter, Amy. She is afraid of dying, but most of all, of leaving Amy alone. During a breakdown, she asks Jack to make sure that Amy feels like she belongs. Jack tells Jen that she does belong, that she's always belonged to him and that they're soulmates. After her death, Jack and Doug agree to give their relationship another try and to raise Amy together.
Romantic Interests
- Joey PotterJoey PotterJosephine "Joey" Lynn Potter is a fictional character portrayed by Katie Holmes in the American television drama Dawson's Creek.-Character biography:...
: In season two Jack was Joey’s boyfriend for a brief period, creating tension in Joey and Dawson’s relationship. The two of them broke up when Jack came out of the closet.
- Ethan Brody: (Adam Kaufman (actor)Adam Kaufman (actor)Adam Kaufman is an American actor, who portrayed Charlie Keys in the science fiction miniseries Taken from Steven Spielberg. He made his first TV-appearance in the show Brookfield....
) In season three Jack met Ethan Brody, a student from a boarding schoolBoarding schoolA boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
in BostonBostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, on a train. Jack intended to take Ethan to his prom as his date but he wasn’t allowed to do that due the fact that they were both boys. In the season finale, Jack went to Boston looking for Ethan, just to realize that he had reconciled with his boyfriend.
- Toby: (David MonahanDavid MonahanDavid Harold Monahan is an actor, best known for recurring roles on Crossing Jordan as Detective Matt Seely and Dawson's Creek as Tobey Barret. He has also appeared in such films as The Last Supper , The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green and Something New A 1989 graduate of Bishop...
) Jack met Toby in a gay support group in Capeside. At first Jack didn’t like him because he was “too gay”, but soon they became friends. Toby was Jack’s prom date in season four, and by the end of the season they had become boyfriendsBoyfriendsBoyfriends is a 1996 British independent film. Three gay couples, all of whom are suffering relationship problems, spend a weekend at the seaside and learn how to deal with their issues from each other. The film was written and directed by Tom Hunsinger and Neil Hunter...
. Jack broke up with Toby at the beginning of season five.
- Eric: (Ryan BittleRyan BittleRyan James Bittle is an American actor. He began appearing on television in 1994.-Early life:Ryan Bittle is the son of Kathy Homewood, a nurse and ICU director, and Jim Bittle, a retired Glendale Fire Captain...
) In season five Jack joined a fraternityFraternityA fraternity is a brotherhood, though the term usually connotes a distinct or formal organization. An organization referred to as a fraternity may be a:*Secret society*Chivalric order*Benefit society*Friendly society*Social club*Trade union...
; the other members of the fraternity supposedly didn’t have a problem with Jack’s sexuality, but Eric refused to be his roommate. Later, when Jack is expelled from the fraternity and needs to study for his finals, he gets help from Eric. Jack canceled his trip to Costa RicaCosta RicaCosta Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
in the last minute to stay in Boston and support Eric since he had just come out to his parents. Eric left Jack for a younger guy and broke up with him in an e-mail.
- Professor Freeman: (Sebastian SpenceSebastian SpenceSebastian Spence is an actor who played the lead role as Cade Foster in the TV series First Wave.Spence is the son of the late playwright Michael Cook and playwright and actress Janis Spence...
) At the beginning of season six Jack developed a crush on one of his teachers, Mr. Freeman. His feelings were reciprocated, but Professor Freeman was married, so Jack didn’t pursue the relationship.
- David: (Greg RikaartGreg RikaartGregory Andrew Rikaart is an American actor, currently on the cast of the soap opera The Young and the Restless, playing Kevin Fisher since July 2003.-Biography:...
) Jack met David through C.J., who was Jen’s love interest at the time. They soon became friends and eventually boyfriends. David became jealous of Jack after seeing him talking to Fred, a gay guy they had recently met, and accuses him of flirting with him. Soon after, David broke up with him.
- Doug Witter: (Dylan NealDylan NealDylan J. Neal is a Canadian actor who has appeared in a large number of television shows and in feature films. He is best known for role as Dylan Shaw on The Bold and The Beautiful from 1994 to 1997 and his supporting role as Pacey Witter's older brother, Doug on the American television drama...
) In the season finale, Jack and Doug were living in Capeside as domestic partners. Being a police officer in a small town, Doug didn’t want people to find out that he was gay, so he and Jack often pretended to not know each other when they were in public. By the end of the episode Doug had overcome his fear of coming out of the closet and offered to help Jack to raise Amy.
Other Relationships
- Andie McPheeAndie McPheeAndrea "Andie" McPhee is a fictional character on the American television drama Dawson's Creek, from 1998 to 2000, with guest appearances in 2002 and 2003. She is portrayed by American actress Meredith Monroe.- Background :...
: Andie is Jack’s sister; they were very protective of each other in high school, since they were left alone to take care of their mentally ill mother. Andie was really supportive when Jack came out to his father.
- Joseph McPhee: he is Jack’s father, in the beginning he was a very distant father, supporting Jack and Andie only in an economical way. Mr. McPhee was very unsupportive when Jack came out to him, but by the end of season three he had accepted his son's sexuality and the two of them had become much more close.
- Jen LindleyJen LindleyJennifer "Jen" Lindley is a fictional character on the American television drama Dawson's Creek. The character is portrayed by American actress Michelle Williams.-Season One:...
: Jen and Jack became best friends near the end of season two, when she was kicked out of her grandma’s house and Jack allowed her to live with him. Later the roles reverted when Jack moved in with Jen and her grandmother. Their friendship proved to be one of the strongest in the show. When Jen died in the series finale, it was Jack who took care of her daughter Amy.
- Evelyn Ryan (Grams): Jack moved to Grams’s house in the end of season two; soon she became a substitute mother figure to him. Their relationship continued through the rest of the series.
- Pacey WitterPacey WitterPacey J. Witter is a fictional character on the American television series Dawson's Creek, portrayed by actor Joshua Jackson.-Biography:...
: Jack and Pacey became good friends when Pacey defended Jack after a teacher forced him to read a poem that revealed his homosexualityHomosexualityHomosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction or behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectional, or romantic attractions" primarily or exclusively to people of the same...
. The two of them became roommates when they moved to Emma’s apartment in season six.
- Dawson LeeryDawson LeeryDawson Wade Leery is the central fictional character and the main protagonist of the American television drama Dawson's Creek. The character is portrayed by American actor James Van Der Beek.-Biography:...
: In the beginning Jack and Dawson’s relationship was one of rivalry, since Jack became Joey’s boyfriend. After Jack came out of the closet, he and Dawson slowly became good friends.
- Amy Lindley: Amy is Jen’s daughter, and Jack is her godfatherGodparentA godparent, in many denominations of Christianity, is someone who sponsors a child's baptism. A male godparent is a godfather, and a female godparent is a godmother...
. When Jen died in the series finale Jack adopted Amy.