Claim: Jared Padalecki appeared in a film.
Evidence: He grew up in Texas and rose to fame in the early 2000s after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls as well as such films as New York Minute and House of Wax.
House of Wax -LRB- originally titled Wax House , Baby -RRB- is a 2005 American-Australian horror thriller film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and stars Elisha Cuthbert , Chad Michael Murray , Brian Van Holt , Paris Hilton , Jared Padalecki , Jon Abrahams and Robert Ri ` chard.