Katie Holmes pays tribute to Dawson's Creek coaster Obi Ando after his death such a kind man endo's sister announced his death in a Facebook post on August 31st Obie died at the age of 51 his sister in Kem and Deo announced in a Facebook post on Saturday August 31st her post included a photo of the two siblings smiling while embracing each other and staring down into the camera lens and quot heartbroken at the loss of my younger brother and knowing he's finally at peace and quat in Kem wrote in the caption on Sunday September 1st holes 45 shared a tribute to the late actor on her Instagram stories alongside a screenshot of a real posted by her Dawson's Creek coaster Mary Margaret Humes on Instagram on Saturday and quot he was wonderful to work with and such a kind man I send prayers and Grace to his family rest in peace and qu holes wrote underneath a screenshotted photo of Humes 70 and OB including a heart emoji Humes who played dawon L's mom Gail ly and the Teen drum Dr wrote a tribute to Obie in the caption of her Instagram post these words don't come easy heartbreak it's hard for me to conceive that you have left us my dear friend and quot she wrote and quot you always were and always will be a bright shining light what an example of pure unfiltered love and tenacity you set as you faced life's challenges of recent and quat hume's message concluded and quat I will cherish all of our messages of love and support to each other over the past few years rest in peace sweet Warrior OB played Bessie Potter's boyfriend bod Wells on Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2002 his character lived with holes character Joey Potter the younger sister of Bess also a yoga teacher OB graduated from Yale University's drama school according to his profile on La Theater Works he also worked on TV shows including NCIS Los Angeles the westwing and NYPD Blue for the Los Angeles Times Obie became a double ampute after he was hit by an SUV while packing his car full of groceries in a supermarket parking lot in 2019