Jensen Ross Ackles is an American actor and director. He is known for his roles in television as Eric Brady in Days of our Lives, which earned him several Daytime Emmy Award nominations, as well as Alec/X5-494 in Dark Angel and Jason Teague in Smallville. Ackles currently stars as Dean Winchester on the CW series Supernatural. Ackles was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Donna Joan and Alan Roger Ackles, an actor. Ackles has a brother, Joshua, who is three years older, and sister, Mackenzie, who is seven years younger. He is of English, Irish and Scottish ancestry. He had planned to study... sports medicine at Texas Tech University and become a physical therapist but instead moved to Los Angeles to start his acting career. 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.
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| Birthdate: | March 1, 1978 |
| Birthplace: | Dallas, Texas |
| Age: | 34 |
| Height: | 6' 0" |
| Religion: | Non-denominational Christianity |
| Also known as: | Jensen Ross Ackles |