1. Jared Tristan Padalecki was born on July 19,1982 and is an American actor.
21 Facts About Jared Padalecki
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Jared Padalecki is best known for playing the role of Sam Winchester in the TV series Supernatural.
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Jared Padalecki rose to fame in the early 2000s after appearing on the television series Gilmore Girls as well as the films Cheaper by the Dozen, Flight of the Phoenix, Cry Wolf and Friday the 13th.
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Jared Padalecki's father is of Polish descent, while his mother has German, Scottish, French, and English ancestry.
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Jared Padalecki was a 2000 candidate for the Presidential Scholars Program.
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Jared Padalecki won Fox Broadcasting's 1999 "Claim to Fame Contest"; he subsequently appeared at the Teen Choice Awards, where he met an agent.
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Jared Padalecki's first role was a minor role in the 1999 film A Little Inside.
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Jared Padalecki had an uncredited role as a high school bully in 2003's comedy Cheaper by the Dozen, which he played after being asked by fellow actor and friend Tom Welling, who played Charlie Baker, and the director of the movie, who wanted someone larger than Charlie to pick on him.
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Jared Padalecki originally auditioned for Welling's role, but gave it up in order to film a pilot titled Young MacGyver which was never picked up.
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Jared Padalecki landed a short role in the thriller Flight of the Phoenix alongside Dennis Quaid and Hugh Laurie.
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In 2005, Jared Padalecki starred opposite Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray and Paris Hilton in House of Wax as Wade.
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Also in 2005, Jared Padalecki was cast as Sam Winchester on the WB series, Supernatural.
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In 2007, Jared Padalecki served as the host of MTV's horror reality series, Room 401, which was discontinued after only eight episodes due to poor ratings.
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Jared Padalecki had the lead role in 2008's Christmas Cottage as Thomas Kinkade, alongside acclaimed actor Peter O'Toole.
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Jared Padalecki had the lead role in the 2009 version of Friday the 13th as Clay Miller, a character who heads out to Camp Crystal Lake in search of his sister who has gone missing.
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In September 2019, Jared Padalecki was announced as the title role in Walker, a reboot series of Walker, Texas Ranger in development at The CW.
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Jared 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.
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Jared Padalecki supported Beto O'Rourke for the 2018 Senate election in Texas alongside Supernatural co-stars Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins.
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In March 2015, Jared Padalecki launched his Always Keep Fighting campaign through Represent.
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The cause is particularly close to Jared Padalecki, who has been candid about his own struggles with depression.
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Later, Jared Padalecki launched a third campaign selling a further 40,000 shirts.