Jensen Ackles

**Jensen Ross Ackles** is an American actor and director. He is best known for his role playing Dean Winchester on the longest sci-fi TV show *Supernatural*.

## Biography

* Personal Life
* Career

Jensen Ross Ackles was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Donna Joan (née Shaffer) and Alan Roger Ackles, an actor. He has a brother, Joshua, and a sister, Mackenzie. Through his brother Josh he has a nephew Levi, who has Down Syndrome.

Ackles had planned to study sports medicine at Texas Tech University and to become a physical therapist, but instead moved to Los Angeles to start his acting career. His father gave him a certain amount of time before he had to move back to Texas.

Ackles considers himself a non-denominational Christian.

After modelling on and off since the age of 4, Ackles began to concentrate on an acting career in 1996. He appeared in several guest roles on Mr. Rhodes, Sweet Valley High, and Cybill before joining the cast of the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives as Eric Brady in 1997. He won a 1998 Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer and went on to be nominated three times (in 1998, 1999, and 2000) for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his work on Days of our Lives.

Ackles departed Days of our Lives in 2000 and went on to appear in the mini-series Blonde, about the life of Marilyn Monroe. He also auditioned for the role of the young Clark Kent on Smallville, a role offered to actor Tom Welling instead. Next he appeared in a guest role on the James Cameron television series Dark Angel on Fox in 2001 as serial killer Ben/X5-493, the brother of main character Max/X5-452 (played by Jessica Alba). His character died in the episode, but Ackles returned to the show as a series regular in the second season as Ben's sane clone, Alec/X5-494. He remained with the show until its cancellation in 2002.

Ackles worked steadily throughout 2003. He joined the cast of the WB's hit show Dawson's Creek during its final season, playing CJ, Jen Lindley's lover. Afterward, Ackles filmed several episodes of the unaired series Still Life for Fox before it was abruptly dropped. He also had a small role in the 2004 short film The Plight of Clownana. Ackles was the producer's first choice to play Eliza Dushku's love interest on the second season of Tru Calling, Ackles turned down the role, which was then offered to Eric Christian Olsen and the character's name was changed to "Jensen" because the producers of Tru Calling liked Ackles' name. Ackles returned to Vancouver (where Dark Angel was filmed) in 2004 to become a regular on Smallville playing the assistant football coach Jason Teague, who was also the newest romantic interest for Lana Lang (played by Kristin Kreuk). He also had a lead role in the 2005 film Devour in which Ackles' father, actor Alan Ackles, also had a role playing the father of Ackles' character, Jake Gray.

In 2005, Ackles joined the cast of the WB show horror/drama series Supernatural where he stars as Dean Winchester. Dean and his brother Sam (Jared Padalecki) drive throughout the United States hunting paranormal predators, fighting demons and angels, and dealing with all manner of fantasy & sci-fi genre. The show is currently in its thirteenth season on the CW. It owns the title of the longest-running North American sci-fi series in history.

In the summer of 2007, Ackles took on the role of Priestly in the independent comedy Ten Inch Hero. The film began hitting the film festival circuit in early 2007 and Ackles received high praise for his comedic timing in the role. In February 2009, the film was released on DVD exclusively by Blockbuster Home Video. He also appeared on stage from June 5–10, 2007 with Lou Diamond Phillips in A Few Good Men at Casa Mañana Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas, as Lt. Daniel Kaffee. Ackles received strong praise for his work in this role, which was also his professional theatre debut.

In the summer of 2008, Ackles was cast in the remake of the cult film My Bloody Valentine 3D, which opened nationwide on January 16, 2009.

In summer of 2010, Ackles lent his voice as the Red Hood (Jason Todd) for the animated film, Batman: Under The Red Hood, which was released to DVD and Blu-ray on July 27.

On October 22, 2010, Disney Interactive Studios announced that he would be voicing a character named Gibson in the video game, Tron: Evolution, which was released on December 7, 2010.
## Romantic Life

He briefly dated Singer/Actress Jessica Simpson for almost two months in 1998, but broke up in March of that year.

He was in a relationship with model Joanna Krupa from 2003 - 2005. There relationship lasted two years and seven months until it ended in August of 2005.

Then for four months he dated Canadian Actress, Tania Saulnier from May 2005 -  September 2005.
Ackles met Danneel Harris in 1999 and they were friends for seven years before they started dating in May of 2006. Two years later He proposed on November 28, 2009 and they were married on May 15, 2010 in Dallas, Texas. Danneel and Jensen Ackles announced that they would be having their first child - a girl - a day before appearing on the People's Choice Awards Red Carpet. There daughter, Justice Jay Ackles or just "JJ" was born on May 30, 2013. Then Danneel and Jensen annouced they were expecting twins, a boy and a girl via instagram July 2016. Zeppelin Bram Ackles and Arrow Rhodes Ackles were born on December 2, 2016.

## Filmography

* Films
* Television
* Video Games

## Trivia

* The first few days of his life he did not have a name.
	+ His parents say if he was a girl he would have been named Holly.
	+ Jensen's parents were going to name him Jared Ackles, ironically he is best friends with Jared Padalecki.
* As a kid he was afraid of lightning and thunderstorms in Texas.
* Jensen got suspended from preschool after a girl kissed him on the cheek and then Jensen kissed her on the lips.
* Jensen's favorite food is steak.
* Jensen hates sushi.
* Jensen's favorite season is Fall.
* The first concert Jensen ever went to was a Michael Jackson one in 1984.
* He is a big fan of Game of Thrones.
* When Jensen was in middle school some of his so-called friends found a catalog ad he did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over the school.
* According to Jensen the worst gift he has given to a girl was a suitcase.
* Jensen originally auditioned for the role of Sam Winchester in Supernatural, but wound up getting the older brother Dean Winchester.
* 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 (Januzary 24, 1979) and Sam Winchester (May 2, 1983).
* Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki make $100,000 to $125,000 dollars per episode of Supernatural.
* Before shooting anything for Supernatural Jensen googled his co-star Jared Padalecki hoping to get info on him.
* Jensen says the he was called Jared so many times on the Supernatural set while filming season 1 and season 2 that he learned to answer to it.
* The amulet given to Dean in Supernatural is a solid piece of brass. Jensen says that due to the Samulet he has lost chips of his teeth due to forgetting to change the brass amulet to the rubber one during stunts.
* In season 1 episode 3 of Supernatural - "Dead in the Water" divers dragged both Jensen and Nico McEon (who played Lucas in that episode) under water to create the affect thst Dean and Lucas were drowning.
* When Jensen read about about his character from Supernatural, Dean's fear of flying the first thing he thought was "Oh man this is going to be a field day".
* 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.
* On set of Supernatural's season 1 episode Scarecrow Jared and Jensen would throw apples at each other.
* In the episode "Hell House" in season 1 of Supernatural when the man hands Dean his coffee he sayd : "Here you go, Jensen" Instead of saying "Here you go, Dean".
* The photo of young Dean Winchester and Mary Winchester before hern death was made for Supernatural specifically by graphic designer Mary-Ann Lia, it was clone by manipulating Samantha Smith as Maty with an actual photo of Jensen as a child.
* Since Jared can't tie, ties he asks Jensen to tie them for him.
* Behind the scenes of Supernatural season 2 episode 11 Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles were somewhat freaked out by the room of blank starring dolls in the episode. They kept daring each other to "poke" one particular eyeless doll in the eye sockets or to stand alone in the room. The pranks elcalated slightly when put a few of the dolls in Jensen's trailer "just to freak him out".
* At Comic-Con 2007 when asked about the engine specifications of the impala on Supernatural, Eric Kripke looked lost but Jensen was able to describe it in detail.
* Jensen has improvised multiple scenes on Supernatural.
	+ In season 3, right after Bela takes the lucky lottery tickets from Dean, Dean shouts "Son of a Bitch" this line was not originally not in the script. Jensen said he had added it to add more comedy to the episode.
	+ In season 5, the scene in "Abandon all Hope..." where Dean kisses Jo on the foreheadas she is dying was unscripted and improvised by Jensen.
	+ In season 6, the scene in the supermarket where baby Bobby-John is crying and Dean picks him upand then mocks his crying was all improvised by Jensen.
	+ In season 8, the original script for "Goodbye Stranger" Dean was supposed to say "I love you" but Jensen improvised and changed it to "Were family, I need you" becuase he feared fans would take it the wrong way.
	+ In the season 9 finale Dean was supposed to give Sam a long speech, instead he improvised and said "I'm proud of us".
	+ In episode 5 of season 10, Jensen looking at the camera after Marie says: "Oh it's just subtext. But...then again, you know you can't spell subtext without S-E-X." Was not in the script (and was Jensen's true reaction).
	+ In season 10 him and Misha Collins changed the script ending of 10x22 "The Prisoner". Originally the writers wanted Castiel to fight back, but both felt Cas wouldn't hurt Dean.
* 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.
* Jensen was on the final short-list to play Steve Rogers/Captain America but declined the offer to keep his role of Dean Winchester on Supernatural.
* Jensen has a scar from filming the first episode of season four in Supernatural. They used real glass in a scene rather than candy glass like they use in stunts, instisted by Kim Manners.
* Jensen does not like the idea of Destiel on Supernatural.
* On set of Supernatural Jensen calls Misha Collins by his real name, Dimitri.
* According to Jared Padalecki during a flight Jensen cried while watching 'Marley and Me'.
* Jensen only plays Dean Winchester's voice in the last two episodes of the Supernatiral anime series.
* Jensen refuses to share with the public how he proposed to his wife Danneel Ackles.
* According to the season 5 stunt cordinator Lou Bollo none of the stunt men could catch up to Jensen in the episode "The End" in the scene where Dean was running.
* In their scenes together on Supernatural Jensen and Misha reportedly compete with one another in who can use a deeper voice
* On the set of season 8' episode 12 of Supernatural - "As Time Goes By" Jensen actully fell asleep so Dean's reaction when Sam wakes him up is actually Jensen's reaction.
* When filming Jensen tries to visit his family on the weekends.
* Jensen has directed six episodes of Spernatural.
	+ He has directed *"Weekend at Bobby's"* (6x04), *"The Girl Next Door"* (7x03), *"Heartache"* (8x03), *"Soul Survivor"* (10x03), *"The Bad Seed"* (11x03)
	+ He was offered to directed *"I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here"* (9x01) but declined to spend more time with his family on hiatus. Especially since he was now a new father at the time to his daughter JJ.
	+ While directing "Heartache" in season 8 his father Alan Ackles guess starred in the episode.
* Jensen had to re-record his famous line from Supernatural: "Saving PeopleHunting Things, The Family Business" so tge writers could use it in the road so far montage for season 8, becuase his voice was to high.
* On August 29, 2014 Jensen and his wife Danneel put their Malibu beach house on the market for $6,995 million dollars.
* Jensen pitched the idea to Rober Singer for season 11 episode 1 of Supernatural, having one of the brothers missing after the Darkness clears.
* Out of all the Supernatural episodes Jensen's favorite is the Pilot.
* Jensen has been involved in multiple campaigns to show awareness about serious topics.
	+ Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles sold a total of 70,121 Always Keep Fighting shirts.
	+ Jensen sold 8,245 #spnfamily shirts for his campaign.
	+ Jared and Jensen sold a total of 2, 510 Always Keep Fighting phone cases.
* Jensen knows all the lyrics to the sings of the Disney movie *Frozen* soundtrack and sings them with his daughter JJ
	+ At Seattle J2 panel Jensen said that if he was a disney princess he would be Elsa from Frozen becuase of JJ.
* Jensen said if he was an adult film star he said his name would be 'Pudgy Midway'.

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