Jared Padalecki

**Jared Tristan Padalecki** is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Sam Winchester on Supernatural. He  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.

## Biography

According to Jared his niece Juliette has seen a few episodes of Supernatural and believes it is all real. Saying "uncle Jared" is not playing pretend.
Padalecki had two dogs - Harley and Sadie, but Harley died of cancer in late 2011.

## Romantic Life

He was engaged to long term girlfriend, Sandra McCoy - he proposed in Paris, France while the Supernatural writers were on strike from October 2007 - March 2008. But in June 2008 at the Supernatural Dallas convention he announced that they were no longer engaged or together.

Jared met actress Genevieve Cortese on the set of his TV show, Supernatural. He said he realized he liked Genevieve around episode six or seven of season four. He proposed to Genevieve in front of their favorite painting at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in October of 2009. The engagement was officially announced in January of 2010. There house is 10,600 sq feet.

## Trivia

* Jared is a huge fan of Bon Jovi.
* Jared eats the tails of coconut shrimp.
* His favorite movie is 'Good Will Hunting'.
* His favorite book is the "Great Gatsby".
* Jared's favorite type of chips are cool ranch Doritos.
* Jared was afraid of Bloody Mary and Hook Man when he was a kid.
* Jared is lactose intolerant, but he says he still eats dairy products because their worth the "tummy ache"
* Jared Padalecki's net worth is 12 million.
* On Jared's first day of drivers Ed he thought it was a one way street and began to drive on the wrong side of the road.
* Jared had to wear hair extensions for the season five premiere of Gilmore Girls because his hair was cut after the season four finale.
* Since Jared can't tie ties, he asks Jensen to tie them for him.
* There are 4 years and 4 months between Jensen Ackles (March 1, 1978) and Jared Padalecki (July 19, 1982). While their characters on Supernatural also have 4 years and 4 months between Dean Winchester (January 24, 1979) and Sam Winchester (May 2, 1983).
* Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki make $100,000 to $125,000 dollars per episode of Supernatural.
* Many of the cast and crew on Supernatural call Jared, Jrod while filming.
* In an interview in TV Guide.Eric Kripke, the show *Supernatural's* creator admits that he got so many requests from the viewers to see Jensen and Jared with "less on" then he created the "Skin" episode for Jensen to be shirtless, and added a scene in the episode "Hell House" for Jared to be shirtless to please the fans.
* Filming an episode in season 1 of Supernatural they used real bees. Jensen Ackles was the first to get stung which amused Jared Padalecki enormously. Ackles soon got his revenge when Padalecki sat down on a bee and was stung on his butt.
* During the filming of House of Wax, Jared locked himself out of his house several times and had to call his roommate and co-star Chad Michael Murray to let him in.
* On set of Supernatural's season 1 episode Scarecrow Jared and Jensen would throw apples at each other.
* Jared has been injured off-screen twice and the writers had to write his injuries into the storyline for his character, Sam Winchester.
	+ While filming season two, Jared broke his wrist after performing one of the stunts on the show.
	+ He dislocated his shoulder while wrestling with Osric Chau (Kevin Tran in Supernatural). The writers of Supernatural were then forced to make up a story as to why Sam was wearing a sling in the first five episodes of season 10.
* In the episode a Very Supernatural Christmas when Sam and Dean toast and drink the eggnog Jensen's reaction is genuine. Behind the scenes, Jared poured rum into his glass without Jensen knowing.
* During the filming of season 3 episode 10 "Dream a Little Dream of Me", during the scene where Bobby is in the hospital Jared kept teasing Jim Beaver's toes, trying to get him to laugh.
* Jared cried while watching Toy Story 3 for the first time.
* In 2010, Jared turned down an offer for a role in a G.I. Joe movie.
* Jared auditioned for the roles of Anakin Skywalker.
* Misha Collins lost to Jared in words with friends, he paid him in four buckets of coins that added up to $1,970.00 dollars.
* Jared has played many jokes on his Supernatural co-star Misha Collins. Usually with his other Supernatural co-star Jensen Ackles but not always.
	+ Jared once found Misha's cell phone  and called several times, making his phone bill very expensive.
	+ Jared decided to put leftover chunks of fish from his lunch in Misha's car under the seats. Misha's car smelt very badly by the time he found the fish. At first Misha had blamed his two children.
* Jared once stopped all of the trains in Northern Europe because he forgot Genevieve's bag on the platform.
* Jared and Genevieve's oldest son, Thomas, was born during the filming of Supernatural.
	+ In Supernatural's season seven episode - Reading is Fundamental" Sam says that after Dean opened the tablet every woman in her last month of pregnancy gave birth. Ironically Jared Padalecki's wife Genevieve gave birth to their first son Thomas during the filming of this episode.
* At Seattle J2 Panel Jared stated if he could be a Disney princess he would be Princess Jasmine.
* Jared was considered to play Superman in the reboot.