Jensen Ackles
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Jensen Ross Ackles (born March 1, 1978, Dallas, Texas) is an American television actor and former male fashion model.
Biography
Ackles was born in Dallas, Texas to Roger Alan Ackles and Donna Joan Shaffer. After modeling off and on as a young child, he began to concentrate on an acting career in 1996 upon his graduation from Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas. In 1997 he received a role on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives as Eric Brady, for which he won a 1998 Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer.After leaving Days in 2000, Ackles went to Vancouver, joining the cast of the James Cameron television series Dark Angel. His first appearance on the show was in 2001 as Max's (played by Jessica Alba) disturbed brother Ben/X5-493. After Ben died, Ackles returned to the series in the second season as Ben's clone, Alec/X5-494, who eventually teamed up with Max and stayed until the show's demise in 2002.
In 2003, he made several guest appearances as C.J. on the hit WB Network show, Dawson's Creek. In 2004, Ackles returned to Vancouver and became a regular on the popular WB Network series, Smallville, which revolves around the life of the teenaged Clark Kent/Superman. His character, Jason Teague, was an assistant coach for the high school football team and a love interest of Clark Kent's ex-girlfriend, Lana Lang, played by Kristin Kreuk.
Ackles returned to television in 2005 in the new WB horror series Supernatural in the role of Dean Winchester, who teams with his brother Sam (Jared Padalecki) to road-trip across the country investigating the paranormal.
Personal Life
Ackles has an older brother, Joshua, and a younger sister, Mackenzie. His interests are baseball, horse riding, and playing guitar.Ackles was romantically linked to Mary Kate Hudson
Trivia
- Graduated from L. V. Berkner High School, Richardson, Texas in 1996, Apollo Junior High School in 1993. [link]
- Was a child model at age 4, then quit, and started again at age 10.
- Played baseball and lacrosse in high school.
- Fan of the Dallas Cowboys (football) and the Dallas Mavericks (basketball.)
- Planned to study sports medicine at Texas Tech University and become a physical therapist, before he decided to move to LA to give acting a try.
- Enjoys horseback riding
- 1990 graduate of Dartmouth Elementary School in Richardson, TX.
- Was runner up to Tom Welling for role of Clark Kent on Smallville. Was brought onto the show in season 4 as Lana's boyfriend.
- Also sings and plays guitar
- Was offered a role as Eliza Dushku's love interest on "Tru Calling," but chose to take a role on "Smallvile" instead. Eric Christian Olsen was eventually given the role and the character's name was changed to Jensen.
- He is the son of actor Alan Ackles
- Jensen's parents named him Jensen because they considered other names but found them too common. Ackles, Jensen's last name, is pronounced like 'Cackles' without a 'C.'
- Good friends with LeAnn Rimes and Christian Kane
Filmography
- Ten Inch Hero (2006) Movie Priestly
- Supernatural (2005) TV Dean Winchester (2005-Present)
- Devour (2005)
- Smallville (2004-2005) TV
- The Plight of Clownana (2004)
- Still Life (2003) TV (unaired pilot)
- Dawson's Creek (2002-2003) TV
- ''Dark Angel (2000-2002) TV
- Blonde (2001) (mini) TV
- Days of Our Lives (1997-2000) TV
- Mr. Rhodes (1996) TV
External links
- [Jensen Ackles] bio at the Supernatural Official website
- [] at TV.com
- [Jensen Ross Ackles Unlimited]
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