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

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

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Hollywood has lost one of its own.

Obi Ndefo, who starred on TV shows such as Dawson’s Creek and Stargate SG-1, has died. He was 51.

The actor’s sister’s confirmed his death. “Heartbroken at the loss of my younger brother,” she wrote on Instagram Aug. 31, “and knowing he’s finally at peace.”

The cause of Obi’s death was not released.

The actor, who starred on Dawson’s Creek between 1998 and 2002 as Bodie Wells, boyfriend of the sister of Katie Holmes‘ character Joey Potter, died five years after he had both legs amputated above the knee after a car accident.

In 2019, Ob was hit by a speeding driver on a Los Angeles street while loading groceries he brought at an Erewhon natural foods supermarket into his own car.

The driver fled the scene after the crash, while a bystander stayed with Obi until paramedics arrived to bring him to the hospital. “I just started repeating, ‘I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive,'” he recalled to NBC Los Angeles that year, “just to keep myself calm.”

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





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