11 Teen Drama Icons Who Played Villains on Procedural Dramas (PHOTOS)
James Van Der Beek
Dawson’s Creek: Dawson Leery
Criminal Minds: Tobias Hankel (Season 2, Episode 14 “The Big Game,” and Episode 15 “Revelations”)
Law & Order: SVU: Sean Albert (Season 13, Episode 20 “Father Dearest”)
Kerr Smith
Dawson’s Creek: Jack McPhee
CSI: NY: Drew Bedford (Season 4, Episode 2 “The Deep,” Episode 8 “Buzzkill,” Episode 9 “One Wedding and a Funeral,” and Episode 10 “The Thing Abut Heroes…”)
NCIS: Lieutenant Jonas Cobb/Port-to-Port Killer (Season 8, Episode 23 “Swan Song” and Episode 24 “Pyramid”)
NCIS: Los Angeles: David Ross (Season 10, Episode 14 “Smokescreen” and Episode 15 “Smokescreen, Part II”)
Meredith Monroe
Dawson’s Creek: Andie McPhee
Psych: Maddie Bicks (Season 5, Episode 8 “Shawn 2.0”)
NCIS: April Ferris (Season 8, Episode 6 “Cracked”)
Luke Perry
Beverly Hills, 90210: Dylan McKay
Criminal Minds: Benjamin Cyrus (Season 4, Episode 3 “Minimal Loss”)
Ian Ziering
Beverly Hills, 90210: Steve Sanders
CSI: NY: Thom Weir (Season 6, Episode 17 “Pot of Gold”)
Chad Michael Murray
Gilmore Girls: Tristin Dugray
Dawson’s Creek: Charlie Todd
One Tree Hill: Lucas Scott
CSI: Tom Haviland (Season 3, Episode 2 “The Accused Is Entitled”)
James Marsters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Spike
Hawaii Five-0: Victor Hesse (Season 1, Episode 1 “Pilot” and Episode 12 “Hana ‘a’a Makehewa,” Season 2, Episode 1 “Ha’i’ole,” and Season 5, Episode 7 “Ina Paha”)
Michelle Trachtenberg
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Dawn Summers
Criminal Minds: Diane Turner (Season 8, Episode 12 “Zugzwang”)
Scott Wolf
Party of Five: Bailey Salinger
NCIS: Jonathan Cole (Season 9, Episode 1 “Nature of the Beast,” Episode 12 “Housekeeping,” and Episode 24 “Till Death Do Us Part”)
Chris Carmack
The O.C.: Luke Ward
NCIS: Kevin Nelson (Season 6, Episode 14 “Love & War”)
Sasha Alexander
Dawson’s Creek: Gretchen Witter
Law & Order: SVU: Annie Mill (Season 20, Episode 7 “Caretaker”)
Remember the stars of classic teen dramas like Party of Five, Dawson’s Creek, Beverly Hills, 90210, The O.C., and Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
Well, those actors went on to play, in most cases, very different characters from those iconic roles on procedural dramas like Law & Order: SVU, Criminal Minds, CSI (and its spinoffs), and NCIS. We’re taking a look back at some of those villainous turns for stars from teen dramas from the ’90s and early 2000s, including James Van Der Beek, Kerr Smith, James Marsters, Luke Perry, and Scott Wolf.
Click through the gallery above to see the teen drama and villainous roles those stars and others played in procedural dramas (and, in one case, a dramedy).
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