Filmography

As the World Turns (1996)
Ryder Hughes
Kerr Smith's first major role was on the CBS daytime drama "As the World Turns". He landed the role of Ryder Hughes on this show in 1996. This performance brought him fame and prestige. That year, he won an award from Soap Opera Magazine for Best New Actor. Surprisingly, after a year he left the soap opera because the executive producers didn't know what to do with his character.

Dawson's Creek (1998)
Jack Mcphee
When Kerr Smith auditioned for the role of Jack McPhee, the show was in its second season, and he had to audition half a dozen times before getting the role. Then, neither Kerr Smith, nor Meredith Monroe, who played Andie McPhee, his sister on the show, were aware that they were going to be regular characters on the show. Jack McPhee was initially brought to Capeside to create trouble between Dawson and his girlfriend Joey. However only a few months later, his character came out of the closet in one of the most heartbreaking storylines of the whole show and he never left the show Kevin Williamson and Greg Berlanti wanted to build a character with dignity, without playing into stereotypes. Williamson said that Smith played the character \'s coming out beautifully and brilliantly, and it must be true, because the show was honored by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation\'s Media Award for Outstanding TV Dramatic Series. In the third and fourth seasons of the show, Jack has continued to come to terms with his sexuality, and he’s become an essential part of Capeside\'s soul

Lucid Days in Hell (1999)
Kelly
Also known as "Lucy’s Day in Hell", "Kiss & Tell" is a romantic comedy satirizing the dating scene and Reality TV. This film goes behind the scenes of America's favorite television dating show. Four guys and four girls are on the most important blind date of their lives. Everything has been set in place to make this date unforgettable: airplanes, mansions, and limousines. To everyone else on the show, this is the chance to show their dating prowess on TV, except for Jim. For Jim, this is the chance to get a real date and to find a wife. He makes a romantic connection with a beautiful woman called Brenda, but they'll soon find out that on television, conflict sells better than romance. Brian, the "Kiss and Tell" director, knows so he'll intend to create all kinds of conflict on the show. "Kiss and Tell" also feature cameos by Dan Rather, Myke Tyson, James Brown or the late film reviewer Gene Siskel.

Hit and Runaway (1999)
Joey
"Hit and Runway" was a promising directorial debut for Livingston. The premise is simple: What if two men with absolutely nothing in common try to write a script for a Hollywood action adventure? Alex Andero (Michael Parducci) is a 27-year-old living in the apartment beneath his family's Greenwich Village café, where he works as a waiter. Alex's dream is making it big as a Hollywood screenwritter. He spends his evenings at a screenwriting class but the reactions of his peers suggest that he is untalented. The only one interested in his work is Gwen (Judy Prescott), but her interest has more to do with her crush on him. Amazingly, his uncle gets Alex's "Hit and Runway" pitch, about a fashion model who is really a cop is heard by famous actor Jagger Stevens(Hoyt Richards). The main problem is he needs writing samples and one of the things he has learned from his classes is that he can't write. Alex tries to persuade Elliot Springer (Peter Jacobson) a brilliant Jewish gay playwright to help. Although opposed to have nothing to do with Hollywood screenwriting or collaboration, finally Elliot accepts when he realizes Alex can help him to get a date with Joey (Kerr Smith ), the struggling actor who works for Alex in the café. "Hit and Runway" received the awards for Best Screenplay at both the 1999 LA Independent Film Festival and the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen.

The Broken Hearts Club (2000)
Cameo
Keep you eyes open to the cameo appearance by Kerr Smith as a catcher. Greg Berlanti called him up personally to ask him to appear in the film as a favor to him. In Kerr Smith's words, it was definitely a wink-wink nudge-nudge to the people who watch the show and saw the movie, since , Greg Berlanti wrote the "Dawson's Creek" episode where Kerr Smith's character, Jack , came out of the closet

Final Destination (2000)
Carter
Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) and his high school class are bound on a trip to Paris, but just before the plane takes off, Alex experiences a powerful dream in which he "sees" the explosion of "Flight 180", the plane in which he and his classmates are traveling on. Alex wakes up in a cold sweat and starts screaming and shouting for everyone to leave the plane. In the middle of the chaos, six teenagers and one teacher end up leaving. They are: Billy and Tod, Alex's best friends, Clair (Ali Larter) a girl who instinctively follows Alex's warning, Carter (Kerr Smith), whose reaction in the face of Alex's paranoia has him and his girlfriend, Terry, thrown off the plane and Mrs Lewton (Kristen Cloke), the teacher who volunteers to stay with the students. Back in the departure lounge, they soon find out Alex's premonition was true, when he plane explodes. From then on, Alex and his friends have to deal with the guilt of having escaped death while their friends perished Death, according to the film, has a pattern. Alex has broken it and a new desing has to be set in place. From there, each character will have to come face to face with a new death. James Wong (The X-files, Millenium) crafts a good teen horror film which keeps us on the edge of our seats

The Forsaken (2001)
Sean
Sean, an up-and-coming movie editor (Kerr Smith ), is in a cross-country road trip from LA to Florida to deliver a Mercedes-Benz, and attends his sister's wedding. What starts out as a simple trip gets complicated when Sean breaks "The Golden Rule" and picks up a hitchhiker. From there, Sean gets involved in a surreal and blood soaked nightmare. As it turns out for the unfortunate Sean, his companion, Nick, (Brendan Fehr ) is not a simple traveler, he is a hunter, and his prey are the Blood Letters, a band of vampires who feed off the victims they find in the deserted roads. Along the trip, Sean and Nick pick up a dazed and frightened girl, Megan ( Isabella Miko ), who has been left for dead by the vampires. Unfortunately Megan is not only a victim, but she’s also a human bait. Then, all hell breaks loose. Soon, Sean is infected with a deadly "blood disease" that Nick suffers from. Their only salvation involves the Legend of the Forsaken; and the only cure for them will be to kill the host organism, the vicious leader of the vampires. This new vampire film has references to John Carpenter's "Vampires" and Joel Schumacher’s "Lost Boys.”

Critical Assembly (2001)
Bobby
Based on the best selling book by James Mills "The Seventh Power", it's the story of two college students who build a nuclear bomb that eventually lands in hands of a group of terrorists. From then, the students will have to join the goverment in order to track down the nuclear device and avoid the destruction of the San Francisco Bay. Written by Tom Vaughan and directed by Eric Laneuville, the NBC thriller stars Kerr Smith and Katherine Heigl.

Cruel Intentions 3 (2004)
Jason Argyle
Cassidy Merteuil, the distant cousin of Kathryn Merteuil, arrives in Santa Barbara, California to attend college where she meets Jason Argyle, a former friend from her high school also attending the school, while Jason gets a roommate, Patrick Bales, whom he and Jason form a mean-spirited partnership of seducing and dumping various young women on campus. When both of their latest conquests bore them, Jason bets Patrick if they can bed out a particular newcommer under the wing of Cassidy. But nothing is what it seems as a triangle of Cassidy, Jason and Patrick forms with each one scheming to outwit the other

Silver Lake "TV Pilot" (2004)
Dennis Patterson

Announced (2005)
Adam
Adam (Kerr Smith), a newly hired Capital Hill aide, and his ambitious girlfriend Rebecca (Jordan Ladd),a TV Reporter, get involved in a murderous love triangle with political ramifications. Libby (Lacey Chabert) is an eccentric neighbour who knows much more than she tells.

Guest Star on "Charmed" (2004)
Agent Kyle Brody