Holmes became known to America as an actress on the teen drama TV series "Dawson's Creek, " which aired between 1998 and 2003.

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Holmes, who became a star in the teen soap opera Dawson's Creek, made her Broadway debut in the 2008 production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons.

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The sitcom, which features the former Dawson's Creek star as a fictionalised version of himself, was pulled from TV schedules earlier this week, 11 episodes into the season.

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