Jared Tristan Padalecki
Jared started to take acting lessons when he was 12.
Then he won the Claim to Fame Contest in 1999 and
got to appear on the Teen Choice awards. Jared lived
in San Antonio, Texas and attended James Madison
High School. He was named a candidate for the year
2000 Presidential Scholars Program. After graduating
in the year 2000 he moved to Los Angeles, California
to pursue an acting career. He played "Dean Forester"
on The Gilmore Girls on the WB starting in 2000 and
ending in 2005. From 2005 to now, he has portrayed
"Sam Winchester" on the CW's Supernatural, which
will begin its fourth season in the fall.He also has
several feature film credits. Next up will be the new
Friday the 13th, which will be released on Friday,
February 13, 2009.
Jensen Ross Ackles
Jensen Ackles was born in Dallas, Texas, to Roger Alan
Ackles and Donna Joan Ackles (née Shaffer). After modeling
as a young child, he began to concentrate on a 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" (1965) as Eric Brady, for which
he won a 1998 Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer.
After leaving "Days of Our Lives" (1965) in 2000, Ackles went to
Vancouver, joining the cast of the James Cameron television series
"Dark Angel" (2000). 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" (1998). In 2004, Ackles
returned to Vancouver and became a regular on the popular
WB Network series "Smallville" (2001), which revolves around
the life of the teen aged Clark Kent/Superman. His character,
Jason Teague, was an assistant coach for the high school football t
eam and a love interest of Clark Kent's ex-girlfriend, Lana Lang.
Ackles returned to television in 2005 in the new
WB horror series "Supernatural" (2005) in the role
of Dean Winchester, who teams with his brother Sam
(Jared Padalecki) to road-trip across the country
investigating the paranormal.