Joshua Carter Jackson is a Canadian American actor. He has appeared in prime time television and in over 32 film roles. He is best known for playing Charlie Conway in The Mighty Ducks film series, Pacey Witter in the television series Dawson's Creek and Peter Bishop in the television series Fringe.
In Scream 2 (1997), Jackson portrays a fictionalised version of himself (as Film Class Guy #1) who attends the same university as Sidney Prescott. In Scream (2022), footage of Jackson portraying Pacey Witter from the Dawson's Creek episode "The Scare", a parody of Scream (1996), is presented as an in-universe parody of Stab, alongside footage Scott Foley (presented as Roman Bridger) portraying Cliff Elliott.