Jared Padalecki
Jared Padalecki was born in San Antonio, Texas, United States on July 19th, 1982 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 42, Jared Padalecki biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
At 42 years old, Jared Padalecki has this physical status:
Jared Tristan Padalecki (born July 19, 1982) is an American actor.
He is best known for playing the role of Sam Winchester in the TV series Supernatural.
He grew up in Texas and rose to fame in the early 2000s after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls as well as the films New York Minute and House of Wax.
Early life
Padalecki was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Gerald and Sherri Padalecki. His father is of Polish descent, while his mother has German, Scottish, French, and English ancestry.
He was a 2000 candidate for the Presidential Scholars Program. In 1998, Padalecki and his partner Chris Cardenas won the National Forensic League national championship in Duo Interpretation. Although he had originally planned to attend the University of Texas after graduating from high school in 2000, Jared decided to move Los Angeles instead to pursue an acting career.
Personal life
Padalecki's engagement to his Supernatural co-star Genevieve Cortese was announced in January 2010. They met when Cortese guest starred as Ruby on the show's fourth season. Padalecki proposed to her in front of their favorite painting, Joan of Arc, by French realist Jules Bastien-Lepage at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in October 2009. The pair married on February 27, 2010, in Cortese's hometown of Sun Valley, Idaho. On October 10, 2011, the couple announced that they were expecting their first child together. Their son was born on March 19, 2012. On December 22, 2013, Cortese gave birth to their second son. Their daughter was born on March 17, 2017. The couple resides in Austin, Texas with their three children.
Padalecki and Supernatural co-stars Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins supported Beto O'Rourke for the 2018 Senate election in Texas.
In March 2015, Padalecki launched his Always Keep Fighting campaign through Represent.com. His first campaign raised funds for To Write Love On Her Arms, which supports people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. The cause is particularly close to Padalecki, who has been candid about his own struggles with depression. For the second campaign in the Always Keep Fighting series in April 2015, Padalecki partnered with co-star Jensen Ackles to release a shirt featuring both of their faces, to benefit their newly formed joint charitable fund. Over 70,000 shirts were sold. Later, Padalecki launched a third campaign selling a further 40,000 shirts.
During San Diego Comic-Con 2015, more than 6,000 fans surprised Padalecki at the Supernatural panel by holding up candles for him, after having revealed his battle with depression earlier in the year.
Career
Padalecki was voted the winner of Fox Broadcasting's 1999 "Claim to Fame Competition"; he later appeared at the Teen Choice Awards, where he encountered an agent. In 1999 film A Little Inside, his first appearance was in a minor role. He appeared on the television show Gilmore Girls in 2000, a role he played until 2005. He appeared in several made-for-television films, including Silent Witness, Close to Home, and the Disney Channel Original Movie A Ring of Endless Light in the early 2000s.
Padalecki played an uncredited part in 2003's comedy Cheaper by the Dozen, where he appeared after being asked by fellow actor and friend Tom Welling, who played Charlie Baker, and the film's producer, who wanted someone bigger than Charlie to pick on someone else than Charlie. Padalecki had intended to audition for Welling's role but decided against it in order to film a pilot named Young MacGyver, which was never picked up.
In 2004, Trey Lipton, a charming boy to whom the Olsens' characters are attracted, appeared in the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen comedy in New York Minute. Dennis Quaid and Hugh Laurie also appeared in the thriller Flight of the Phoenix for a short time. Padalecki appeared in House of Wax as Wade, alongside Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray, and Paris Hilton. He appeared in Cry Wolf, another horror film, as Tom in 2005.
Padalecki appeared on the WB's Supernatural in 2005 as Sam Winchester. Sam and his brother Dean (Jensen Ackles) rode through the United States, hunting demons and angels, and dealing with all manners of fantasy and sci-fi. After fifteen seasons, the show came to an end in 2020, making it the longest-running North American sci-fi series in history.
Jared appeared in MTV's horror reality series Room 401, which was eventually cut down after just eight episodes due to poor ratings.
Thomas Kinkade appeared in 2008's Christmas Cottage as the lead role, as well as renowned actor Peter O'Toole.
Clay Miller, a character who goes out to Camp Crystal Lake in search of his sister who has gone missing, was also in the lead role in the 2009 version of Friday the 13th.
Padalecki was introduced as the titular role in Walker, a reboot of Walker, Texas Ranger in The CW's development. In January 2020, the reboot was scheduled to premiere in January 2021 and premiered in January 2021.