Jen Lindley

Jen Lindley
Dawson's Creek character
Michelle Williams as Jennifer Lindley
First appearance	"Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance	"...Must Come To An End" (episode 6.24)
Created by	Kevin Williamson
Portrayed by	Michelle Williams
Information
Nickname(s)	Jen
Occupation	High school student (at Capeside High; graduated) College student (at Boston Bay; ambiguous) Radio host
Family	Theodore Lindley (father) Helen Ryan Lindley (mother) Eve Whitman (maternal half-sister)
Significant other(s)	Dawson Leery (ex-boyfriend) C.J. (ex-boyfriend) Pacey Witter (fling) Henry Parker (ex-boyfriend) Drue Valentine (fling) Charlie Todd (ex-boyfriend) Ty Hicks (ex-boyfriend) Chris Wolfe (fling) Cliff Elliot (ex-boyfriend) Vincent (fling) Billy (ex-boyfriend) Conrad (ex-boyfriend)
Children	Amy Lindley (daughter; unnamed father)
Relatives	Evelyn Ryan (maternal grandmother) "Gramps" Ryan (maternal grandfather; deceased) Jack McPhee (best friend, adoptive father of Amy)
Hometown	New York City, New York
Residence	Capeside, Massachusetts Formerly: Boston, Massachusetts

Jennifer "Jen" Lindley is a fictional character from the WB television drama Dawson's Creek, portrayed by Michelle Williams, and appeared in 118 episodes.

When Jen was 12 years old she was supposed to visit her grandmother in Capeside with her mother. After an argument at the train station, her mother told her to stay home with her father for the weekend and left her on the platform. When Jen arrived home, she found her father having sex with their 17 year old neighbor Annie, whom Jen has previously looked up to. Jen left the apartment confused and slept in a parking lot that night, passed out in the VIP lounge of a club the next night and spent the third night in the dorm room of a boy she had met at the club the night before. At some point over that weekend Jen lost her virginity. Her behavior began to spiral out of control after that weekend, though she blocked out the memory of what her father had done until she visits him in season 4 when she herself is 17, just after getting accepted into college.

The only child of Theodore Lindley and Helen Ryan, Jen was introduced to the show in the first episode when she arrived from New York City to live with her grandmother, Evelyn "Grams" Ryan, after her parents realized just how out of control she was. Jen initially provided a love interest for Dawson Leery, and the two dated throughout the first season, which caused tension between Jen and Joey Potter. Jen was the girl who grew up too fast and Joey was the girl who wondered what it would be like to do the things that Jen had done, so Joey was immediately threatened by the "City Girl". Jen and Dawson broke up when Jen's ex-boyfriend Billy came to Capeside to win her back. Billy caused immediate tension between Dawson and Jen, as Jen's past was coming back to haunt her and Dawson. Dawson in the heat of the moment basically called Jen a "slut", and she broke up with him because she had never been made to feel so cheap by anyone. Dawson then began trying to win the heart of Joey. By the end of the season she was regretting her decision to break up with him, and wanted Dawson back, especially as her sick grandfather died. But it was too late as Dawson and Joey had become a couple.