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Audrey Liddell is a principal character on Dawson's Creek. She is portrayed by Busy Philipps.

Character[]

The only child of a former actress, Kay Liddell, Audrey is an 18-year-old girl from Los Angeles with an interesting, romantic past. She lived next door to the Osborne family. Audrey first meets Joey Potter during their Freshmen Year at the prestigious Worthington College, when they are assigned to room together. She also makes quick and close friends with Jen Lindley, Jack McPhee, Dawson Leery, and Pacey Witter. Audrey has a fun and out there personality. She is a person that attracts people to her; she's outgoing, optimistic, more when it comes to other people than herself. She is the definition of cute, she is very over reactive, she tests the people around her, mainly her boyfriends, because she has low standards when it comes to boyfriends. She always wants Joey to go out of her comfort zone, considering Audrey usually takes chances, though sometimes she is skeptical she always ends up taking chances for herself. She makes great first impressions, many people like her right away, as the case with Jake, Jen, Dawson, and Pacey, while Joey also liked her right away it took her a while to admit it. Audrey has an air about her makes it almost impossible to mad at her even when she buds into your personal business which she almost somehow manages to make it her business also, in a way where no matter how hard you try you can't be upset at her, evident by Joey. She is also very passionate about things and people. And she has never been speechless.

Worthington[]

At first, Audrey sees Joey as an uptight prude from Capeside, still in love with her high school crush. However, Audrey quickly becomes Joey's friend and confidante, as well as friends with Jack, Jen, Dawson and a love interest for Pacey. Meanwhile, when Jack joins a frat and Jen and Dawson embark on their first sexual encounter during a getaway weekend, Audrey is used as bait to attract the small-minded boys of the Sigma Epsilon Fraternity, in particular, Eric, the young man who bailed out of having to room with Jack after learning that he was gay. Joey joins Audrey at Sigma's Winter Formal and learns about Jack's little secret. Following the date from hell, Audrey forces Jack to apologize for his indiscretions. Audrey's shallow mother, Kay Liddell, pays a visit to her in Boston. During dinner, she verbally and constantly shoots down her daughter, calling her a "California blonde" who "lacks focus" and admits that she's embarrassed to be her mother because she had to "shell out a six figured donation" to get Audrey accepted into Worthington. Unable to sit back and watch her friend suffer, Joey saves the day, as the girls make a quick exit to a party, but not before running into Pacey, who is about to leave again, and a very drunk Dawson, who insults Joey, blaming her for his father's death.

In the meantime, Dawson gathers all his friends to help him shoot a film written by his overly-sensitive classmate from Boston Bay, Oliver Chirchick. Audrey is chosen to play the female lead, and unfortunately for her and Pacey, this involves a steamy make-out scene with Jen's brooding ex, Charlie Todd. Pacey admits to Joey and Dawson that he kissed Audrey during "rehearsals", and must join Joey in 'extracting Audrey from the bathroom'. Being in love with her roommate's ex-boyfriend, Audrey feels she must get permission from Joey to date Pacey; Joey tells both of them that they don't need her permission because she loves them both. So Audrey and Pacey embark on a romantic fling and end up having sex in the back of his car on the night Joey has an unfortunate run-in with a drugged out mugger. Audrey blames herself for this; something she confesses to an indie rocker while accompanying Jen to an interview for her college radio station. It isn't long after this, during a 'morning after' scene, that Pacey asks Audrey how many people she's slept with. While Audrey cleverly dodges the question, Pacey confesses he's slept with seven people, including her. She tests her relationship with Pacey by first telling him she had slept with 27 different people, then later telling him it was 57 people. Once he admits how much he cares about her, she finally confesses that she has only slept with 5 people. While on spring break in Florida, Audrey's ex-boyfriend from high school, her 'Dawson', aspiring actor Chris Hartford, shows up during an M2M Concert. Pacey spies the two kissing and questions Audrey about her intentions for their not-so-serious relationship. When Pacey finally asks Audrey to be his girlfriend she accepts and they pursue an exclusive relationship. After returning from spring break, Pacey and Audrey discover that Civilization is under a new manager, and that Danny has disappeared. The new boss, Alexandra Pearl, fires Audrey in an event of 're-staffing', but decides to keep Pacey around. After being the recipient of an unexpected (and unwelcome) sexual advance, Pacey convinces Alex to rehire Audrey, but when she does, Audrey quits anyway after not getting the answer she wanted when she asked if Alex hit on Pacey. When she goes to see Pacey at Danny's apartment, she discovers him making out with Alex and leaves. Pacey tries to call Audrey the next day, but she refuses to answer her phone. After endlessly pursuing her at the airport, Pacey wins Audrey back in the season finale. After that, the duo take a summer-long road trip to Audrey's home in California. They spend the summer in and out of hotels in the midst of Hollywood and spend time with Dawson, who was "out the door before we got up and never home any earlier than midnight."

Problems[]

As Audrey and Pacey return from their summer-long adventure, Pacey confesses to Joey that he's grown tired of "Hollywood Audrey". After impressing her father, Pacey successfully earns a job at a stock broker firm, working for the money-hungry jerk, Rich Renaldi. Audrey becomes angry when she feels like Pacey is putting his job before their relationship and gets drunk while attending a college party with Jen and Jack. Jen and C.J. save her from a sexual misadventure with a complete stranger and take Audrey back to her dorm room. In the meantime, Audrey develops a drinking problem after a downspiral in battling depression. She joins a band led by Emma Jones — a waitress at the local bar/restaurant Hell's Kitchen and fellow bartender who's friends with Joey — as the lead singer, but is soon discarded when her drinking goes out of control.

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Audrey overhears Pacey wanting to break up with her

When Pacey learns that she's failing her classes and lets her know of his concern, Audrey breaks up with him during a Halloween party. Meanwhile, Jen develops a crush on C.J.; a guy who works at the local help line. They were introduced at the Halloween party after Jack convinced Jen to call the help line and invite C.J. along. A drunk Audrey ends up sleeping with him (C.J.) after a gig at Hell's Kitchen. During a No Doubt concert in Worcester, Audrey and Pacey are reunited for the first time since their split. When Pacey and Jen learn that Audrey and C.J. slept together, an upset Jen walks away while Pacey proceeds to get into a fist fight with C.J., getting the two of them thrown out of the venue. Emma has to remind Pacey that he and Audrey aren't together anymore; she ended it at a Halloween party just four months earlier.

After running Pacey's BMW through Dawson's kitchen during Christmas dinner, who pacey takes full blame for. After she runs to LA to avoid rehab she soon comes back only to find that her band mates are auditioning a new potential lead singer because of her messy drug situation. Later only to prove them right when she gets drunk and takes pills leading her to get kicked off the band. Audrey goes on the run to avoid going to rehab again and ends up spending the night with Bob — a complete stranger she met at a bar on the way to L.A. Joey and Eddie embark on a road trip and try to save Audrey in the process, eventually convincing her to turn herself in.

Dawson pays a visit to Audrey in rehab and earns her dish duty after stalking one-time film director, Toni Stark. Audrey finishes rehab towards the end of the season, and returns to Worthington College. She is informed by the Dean that she must sign up for summer school, or she will be expelled. After Eddie suddenly returns, Audrey sarcastically threatens to kill him if he breaks Joey's heart again. During a Lovelines Questionnaire with MTV hosts Drew Pinsky and Adam Carolla, Audrey ends up being the host when Jen chickens out after breaking things off with C.J. While Jen discusses Grams's failing health with her boyfriend, Audrey is left behind at the gig after Joey and Eddie head back to the dorms for some alone time. Drew ends up driving her home. Audrey enrolls in summer school and finishes. An aspiring singer, Audrey performs her first solo gig at Hell's Kitchen, introduced by her childhood friend, Jack Osbourne.

Relationships[]

Joey Potter

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Very close friends, Audrey said that Joey is the best thing in her life, even when she was dating Pacey. And besides her best efforts Joey adores Audrey, and can't help but smile when Audrey is in mid-Audrey mode and trying to help her. Joey called Audrey the only truly close girl friend she's ever had, as her other close friends are guys, and she calls Audrey one of the people who contributed to who she is; along with Jen, Jack, Andy, Dawson, and Pacey.

Pacey Witter

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Fast friends Pacey once said "I love that girl" before they dated. They had undeniable sexual tension and finally acted on it, when Pacey was helping her practice her script for Dawsons movie they kissed. Audrey felt guilty about it, but Joey gave them her blessing saying it wasn't her place to give them her permission.[1] After having sex with each other Joey got mugged and thinking it was somehow her fault, Audrey broke things off with Pacey, but after some convincing they decided to keep rolling with their thing.[2]

After a while with their fling thing, they went LA for spring break where Audrey's first love showed up and wanted her back, they kiss and Pacey sees right when he was going to talk to her and tell her he wanted to be official. Later on the pool Audrey and Pacey told each other they each wanted to be official, so Pacey asked Audrey to be his girlfriend and she said yes, officially starting their relationship that was before mainly sex and cute talk.[3]

Although Pacey tells Audrey that he loves her and is crazy about her, he doesn't seem to feel the same way after spending the summer with her. Although never really deciding to break up with her, this drives them further and further apart until they break up around Halloween, after which Pacey is kind of relieved.[4]

Trivia[]

"My favorite new character of season five is probably Audrey. She has added a perpetually effervescent vibe to the show. She immediately brightens up any scene. When she's around, you know some sort of excitement is just around the corner whether it's her sardonic quips or instigating a friendly bar room brawl with Joey, who I think she was the perfect compliment to."[5]

Photos[]

Audrey Liddell/Gallery

Notes and references[]

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