Jensen Ackles Biography

Fast Facts

• Began modeling as a child in TV commercials for Nabisco, Radio Shack and Wal-Mart
• Was signed as a teen by an agent after being spotted at a Dallas actors' workshop
• Abandoned plans to study sports medicine at Texas Tech University and instead moved to L
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• to pursue acting
• Scored first role in a mid-1990s episode of the PBS talking-dog series Wishbone
• Won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer in 1998 for his role as Eric Brady on Days of Our Lives
• Made film debut in 2005's Devour, which also starred his real-life father, actor Alan Ackles
• Named one of TV's Sexiest Men by TV Guide in 2006
• Starred in a staging of A Few Good Men with Lou Diamond Phillips in 2007