Biography - Heather McComb

Who is Heather McComb?

Heather McComb is an actress by profession and American by nationality. She is well known for starring in New York Stories, The Outsiders, Party of Five, and Prison Break as Rita Morgan, and as the first wife of James Van Der Beek, who is now married to producer Kimberly Brook.

Heather McComb – Birth, Family, Education

Heather McComb’s birth took place on March 2, 1977, in Lakewood Township, New Jersey, USA. She was born as Heather Ann McComb to her mother, Kathy McComb, and her father, Patrick McComb. She is not the only child of her parents and has a sibling, an older sister, Jennifer McComb, who is also an actress. 

Other details about her personal and early life, including those of her mother, father, and high school as a whole, are not known globally.

Education, Ethnicity

The educational history of McComb is not revealed to the public. Her ethnicity is Caucasian.

Heather McComb – Boyfriend, Husband, Children, Divorce

Heather McComb was introduced to actor James Van Der Beek by her sister, who had worked with Van Der Beek in Dawson's Creek (1998). They soon started dating and eventually got engaged to her boyfriend. They married on July 5, 2003.

But after years together, they separated in April 2009, and Heather McComb’s husband filed for divorce in November of the same year. Their divorce was finalized on March 31, 2010, and enforced on June 3, 2010. McComb did not have any children from this marriage. 

Currently, she is dating American actor and writer Scott Michael Campbell.

Her ex-husband is now married to Kimberly Brook, a business consultant, and has six children together.

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Heather McComb – Career

Early Days

Heather McComb began her career in 1989. She was cast in the 1989 film New York Stories’ Life Without Zoë. 

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Films, Series

She went on to portray supporting roles in films Kickboxer 2: The Road Back (1991), Beethoven's 2nd (1993), Generation X (1996), Freak Talks About Sex (1999), Don's Plum (2001), All the Real Girls (2003), Shark Swarm (2008), 2012: Supernova (2009), Sweet Home Carolina (2017), A Stolen Life (2018), The Cleaner (2021), The Baby Pact (2022), Incarcerated (2023).

McComb has had guest appearances in Alien Nation (1990), Who's the Boss? (1991), Sirens (1994), The X-Files (1995), Profiler (1997–1998), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2005), Prison Break (2008), The Event (2010), American Gigolo (2022), etc.

Co-stars

On the set of The Outsiders, Heather McComb has worked alongside C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Sofia Coppola. 

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Heather McComb – Net Worth, Salary

Heather McComb’s net worth is estimated to be around $1 million, while the details of her annual salary are under review.

Heather McComb – Instagram, Twitter, Facebook

On social media, Heather McComb is active on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram with thousands of followers. 

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