Jared Padalecki
Biography
Jared Padalecki is an American actor from San Antonio, Texas, who won Fox Broadcasting's Claim to Fame Contest in 1999 and landed a small part in A Little Inside the same year. He became known as Dean Forester on Gilmore Girls from 2000 to 2005, and in those years also took roles in made-for-television films such as A Ring of Endless Light. His film work includes New York Minute (2004), Flight of the Phoenix (2004), House of Wax (2005), Cry Wolf (2005) and Christmas Cottage (2008), where he played Thomas Kinkade. From 2005 he starred as Sam Winchester in Supernatural, a series that ran fifteen seasons and became North America's longest-running science fiction show of its kind. He later played the title part in The CW's Walker from 2021 to 2024 and hosted MTV's Room 401 in 2007.
44years old
Turns 45 on July 19in 279 days
- Born San Antonio
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Jared Tristan Padalecki (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 7 years2002 to 2009
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Big break
In 1999, Padalecki was a winner of the Claim to Fame Contest held by Fox Broadcasting. He later went to the Teen Choice Awards, and it was there that he met an agent.
A role that slipped away
Padalecki originally auditioned for Tom Welling's role in Cheaper by the Dozen but gave it up to film a pilot titled Young MacGyver that was never picked up.
Jared Padalecki movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Jared Padalecki shares two films with Richard Burgi, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Richard Burgi's page
Dennis Quaid's page
Edward Asner's page
Jay Brazeau's page
Marcia Gay Harden's page
Geoffrey Lewis's page
Jaume Collet-SerraDirector, 1 film, 2005
All films by Jaume Collet-Serra
All films by Marcus Nispel
All films by John Moore
Awards
Four awards and honors from 2014 to 2019.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other honors | |||
| 2019 | Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor Fantasy/Sci-Fi | Supernatural | Won |
| 2015 | Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor Fantasy/Sci-Fi | Supernatural | Won |
| 2014 | People's Choice Award for Favorite TV Bromance | Supernatural | Won |
| Constellation Awards | Won | ||
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Official profiles and reference pages.