Obi Ndefo, Dawson's Creek Actor, Dead at 51

In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2024

Hollywood has mislaid 1 of its own.

Obi Ndefo, who starred connected TV shows specified as Dawson's Creek and Stargate SG-1, has died. He was 51.

The actor's sister's confirmed his death. "Heartbroken astatine the nonaccomplishment of my younger brother," she wrote connected Instagram Aug. 31, "and knowing he’s yet astatine peace."

The origin of Obi's decease was not released.

The actor, who starred on Dawson's Creek betwixt 1998 and 2002 arsenic Bodie Wells, brother-in-law of Katie Holmes' quality Joey Potter, died 5 years aft helium had some legs amputated supra the genu aft a car accident.

In 2019, Ob was deed by a speeding operator connected a Los Angeles thoroughfare portion loading groceries helium brought astatine an Erewhon earthy foods supermarket into his ain car.

The operator fled the country aft the crash, portion a bystander stayed with Obi until paramedics arrived to bring him to the hospital. "I conscionable started repeating, 'I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive,'" helium recalled to NBC Los Angeles that year, "just to support myself calm."

He underwent surgeries and rehabilitation classes and was fitted with prosthetic legs.

After the accident, helium went connected to proceed his acting and penning work. He co-creating a amusement titled Juice Bar and appearing connected an occurrence of NCIS: Los Angeles successful 2021. At the clip of his death, helium was moving connected a bid titled Dream Big.

Mary-Margaret Humes, who played Gale Leery, parent of James Van Der Beek's rubric quality Dawson Leery on Dawson's Creek, shared a tribute to Obi pursuing quality of his passing.

"These words don’t travel easy," she wrote connected Instagram. "It’s hard for maine to conceive that you person near us, my beloved friend. You ever were and ever volition beryllium a agleam shining light. What an illustration of axenic unfiltered emotion and tenacity you acceptable arsenic you faced life’s challenges of recent."

The histrion continued, "I volition cherish each of our messages of emotion and enactment to each different implicit the past fewer years. Rest successful bid saccharine warrior."