TV's Five Freshest Faces
by Michael Giltz
Ive only posted Jason
Who: Jason Behr
Age: 25
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minn.
Role: Max Evans on "Roswell" (WB; Wednesdays at 9 p.m.)
Winning trait: soulful alienation
Best previous role: good- time Christian Chris Wolfe on "Dawson's Creek"
Teens usually think their parents are from another planet. But on "Roswell," it's
the teens who are aliens.
Jason Behr has been here before - he had a role in the TV movie "Alien Nation:
Millennium."
But that's not surprising: he's played almost everything before, thanks to an
impressive number of guest roles, including "JAG," "Profiler," "Buffy the Vampire
Slayer," "Cracker," "7th Heaven" and even - surely a career low point - a Christmas
episode of "Step by Step."
His magnetic appeal always shined through - especially on a six-episode arc of
"Dawson's Creek" where Behr charmed the pants off Michelle Williams.
Well, he almost charmed the pants off her until his double life as a jazz-loving,
hard-drinking goody-two-shoes threw her for a loop. Now Behr charms his new girlfriend
on "Roswell" with magical healing powers (he saves her life in the first episode)
and the sad eyes of an orphan (he hasn't just lost his parents; he's lost his
entire world).
Behr manages the near impossible trick of making wholesome goodness just as appealing
as a walk on the wild side.