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Kevin Williamson (I)

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Mini Biography

Grew up in the New Bern, NC area. There is an actual Dawsons Creek in Oriental, NC where Williamson grew up.

Trade Mark

Most of his films involve a character named "Casey", such as Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Halloween H2O (1998) and The Faculty (1998).

His work consists of teen characters who are movie fantatics and make constant movie references.

Trivia

Since 1999, he is no longer executive producer and writer of "Dawson's Creek". Recently, he publicly announced he is gay.

Kevin based the villainous character in Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) on a teacher who screamed at him in front of the class and told him something he wrote was lousy and that he shouldn't be writing.

Favorite movie is Halloween (1978). He's said that the movie is the reason he started writing.

Personal Quotes

I'm not a real writer; I'm a screenwriter.

"Dawson's Creek has always been very personal and autobiographical; I live and breathe in all the characters...Dawson represents the filmmaker and dreamer, the Spielberg-obsessed idealist who views the world optimistically; Joey represents more of the cynical, angry side as well as my roots and upbringing; Pacey represents the joker in me; and Jen, the rebel. This year we added two new characters to the mix: Andie represents my overachieving, sometimes-manic personality and, in Jack, I wanted to create a character to represent my sexuality, which is my greatest asset in life..."

"I always wanted to direct. That's my passion. I was an actor. That went nowhere. I tried directing theatre. Nope. I wrote this movie called 'Killing Mrs. Tingle.' Sold it. It sat on the shelf. My unemployment dried up. I couldn't get work. I had borrowed money from all my friends. I wrote 'Scary Movie' [later retitled: Scream]. Just banged all it out, as fast as I could." - His success story.

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