Jensen Ackles

He married ‘One Tree Hill’ actress Danneel Harris on May 15, 2010, after three years of courtship. They have a daughter, JJ Ackles, who was born on May 30, 2013.

Jensen Ackles is the second of the third child born to Donna Joan and Alan Roger Ackles, an actor, in Dallas, Texas. He is of Irish-Scottish-English descent. When he was only four years old, he got to work as a part-time child model.

He was enrolled to Dartmouth Elementary School and later graduated from L.V Berkner High School in 1996 in Richardson, Texas.

He dreamt of studying sports medicine and in order to become a physical therapist and decided to enroll at Texas Tech University. However, these dreams were soon put on hold when he moved to Los Angeles.

He started pursuing his acting career seriously in 1996 and began appearing in a number of guest roles in shows like, ‘Mr. Rhodes, Sweet Valley High’ and ‘Cybill’.

His talent was soon recognized by directors and he landed the role of Eric Brady in the NBC show, ‘Days of our Lives’, in 1997.

He left the show in 2000 and made brief appearances in the series, ‘Blonde’, which was based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. He then auditioned for the role of ‘Clark Kent’ for Smallville, but his efforts went futile.

He appeared in James Cameron’s, ‘Dark Angel’, opposite Jessica Alba, on the Fox Network. It won him such appreciation that he was recast in the show, even after the death of his character in one of the episodes, till the show’s unfortunate cancellation in 2002.

Through the next year, he appeared in a number of moderately-successful shows and was finally cast in the award-winning show, ‘Dawson’s Creek’, where he played the role of CJ. He then made guest appearances in ‘Still Life’, which was supposed to air on Fox, but never did.

He plays the role of ‘Dean Winchester’ in the most successful series of his career, ‘Supernatural’. The series is reportedly viewed by over 5.69 million viewers and the ratings for all seasons have been consistently high. It has been named among the ‘Top 10 Shows’ in America and is rated by ‘The New York Times’ as ‘among the wildest and most entertaining series prime time’.