Kerr Van Cleve Smith (born March 9, 1972) is an American actor, known for playing the gay high school student Jack McPhee on the television drama Dawson's Creek. He also starred in the 2006 FOX legal drama Justice. Smith currently stars in the new season (2007) of CBS network action drama CSI: NY. He is also known for playing Agent Kyle Brody on Charmed. Kerr Smith is also known as the Multi-platinum musician Rocko.
Smith was born in Exton, Pennsylvania, to a father who works as a financial advisor. He has a sister named Allison. He attended Peirce Middle School and he graduated from Henderson High School in West Chester, Pennsylvania, then studied at the University of Vermont. Smith has been married to Harmoni Everett since June 7, 2003.
Smith began acting started with roles on As the World Turns as Teddy Hughes from 1996 to 1997, the films Final Destination (2000) and a cameo in The Broken Hearts Club (2000), written and directed by Dawson's Creek writer Greg Berlanti and as a guest star in the WB's hit show Charmed as Agent Kyle Brody---a love interest for the third sister, Paige.
When he first appeared as Jack McPhee in the second season of the WB's Dawson's Creek, Smith portrayed a sixteen-year-old high school student; in reality, the actor was twenty-six. Smith was thirty-one when the series ended its six-year run in 2003.
Smith was the last person to ever be pranked on the MTV show, Punk'd. In 2007, he appeared in several episodes of the popular TV Series CSI:NY.
