But who is this athletic American guy? Our article on the biography of this bright and extraordinary actor will help you understand this.
The early years, childhood and family of Jared Padalecki
Jared Padalecki was born on July 19, 1982 in the large American city of San Antonio (Texas). His family was middle-class and was a classic example of a typical Texas family. The father of the future actor, Gerald Padalecki, worked as a tax accountant. Jared's mom - Sharon Kammer - was an ordinary teacher. By origin, our today's hero is half Pole. His grandfather and grandmother moved to the United States in the middle of the last century. That is why in the original sound the actor's surname sounds like "Padalecki".At school age, the future actor began to engage in various sports. He loved American football, baseball, and often hung out at the gym. At the age of 12, acting was also added to the list of hobbies of a young guy. He began taking theater lessons and soon won the prestigious Claim To Fame competition, earning him the right to appear at the Teen Choice Awards and present an award to one of the actors.
At this gala evening, Jared Padalecki met his future agent. They became friends, and therefore their cooperation continues today.
As for the first acting work, in this regard, it is worth highlighting the film "A Little Inside", in which already in 1999 Jared managed to get one of the rather notable roles. After that, a year later, our today's hero moved to Los Angeles, where, in fact, his acting career began. By that time, the young actor had barely finished high school. However, this did not prevent him from making a successful career in the world of American cinema.
Star Trek actor Jared Padalecki, filmography
The first truly stellar work of Padalecki was the youth series Gilmore Girls. This project brought him his first real fame, and also became a significant item on his acting resume.After this role, directors and producers became more willing to invite the young actor to their new projects. So, Jared starred in the film "Silent Witness", and also appeared in one of the episodes of the legendary television series " Ambulance". The "treatment" under the supervision of George Clooney was quite successful, and therefore, soon the career of our today's hero began to rapidly gain momentum.
Jared Padalecki audition
In 2003, the actor appeared in the project Cheaper by the Dozen, and a year later he played the role of Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen's screen friend in the comedy New York Minute. Further in the career of Jared Padalecki, the time of "horror films" came. In 2004, he played one of the characters in the thriller "Flight of the Phoenix", and immediately after that he got roles in the mystical films "House of Wax" and "Lone Wolf".
However, the most the main role(by the way, also in a mystical film) came to our today's hero only in 2005. During this period, he successfully passed the casting of the actors of the series "Supernatural" and received the role of one of the two main characters in the entire story. There he worked with such actors as Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Jim Beaver and others.
As a result, the role of Sam Winchester became the finest hour for the young actor. Literally after the release of the first episodes, huge popularity came to him. He became a real star, and therefore subsequently flocks of female fans at the door of his house became the most common thing.
In addition, the role in the series "Supernatural" brought the actor several prestigious nominations. One of those was also the nomination for the Teen Choice Award, which, however, bypassed him.
Supernatural Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins on TV Guide Russian voice acting
Despite this, the series remained very popular. Thanks to high ratings, the story of the brothers Sam and Dean stretched for eight seasons, although Eric Kripke's original plan was to last only five seasons. All this time, Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles remained the central characters of the entire story.
As for other acting jobs, there were not so many of them in the career of our today's hero. Staying true to himself, Jared Padalecki has played almost nothing but horror films. So, in particular, a talented American actor appeared in the films "Friday the 13th" and "House of Fear". Some exception (only confirming the rule) is also the biographical film "Christmas Cottage", in which the actor played the role of Thomas Kinkade - one of the most famous overseas artists of our time.
Jared Padalecki today
Currently, our today's hero continues to work on new episodes of the most popular Supernatural project. Jared Padalecki is supposed to work in this field for some more time. Time will tell how the career of a talented actor will develop after the end of the series.Personal life of Jared Padalecki
For some time, our today's hero was in a romantic relationship with actress Sandra McCoy, who is known to viewers as the crossroads demon from the Supernatural series. Previously, Jared and Sandra also played together in the horror films Fear House and Lone Wolf. By the time the filming of Supernatural began, two celebrities were already engaged, but in the spring of 2008, unexpectedly for everyone, they ended their relationship. 
One of possible causes The gap was the actor's romance with another partner on the set - Genevieve Cortese, who played the demon Ruby in the series. Their relationship developed rapidly, and already in February 2010, it became known that Ruby and Sam got married. The couple currently lives in Vancouver, Canada and has a joint son, Thomas Colton, who was born in 2012.
Jared Padalecki, known to most as Sam Winchester from Supernatural, was born July 19, 1982 in Texas. He came to prominence after playing Dean Forester, Rosie's first boyfriend, on Gilmore Girls from 2000 to 2005. In addition, the actor starred in sensational horror films, including Wax House and Friday the 13th.
On February 27, 2010, Jared tied the knot with co-star Genevieve Cortez. Fans of the couple applauded: "Genevieve is beautiful, and Jared Padalecki is just a god!" The actors got married in a beautiful place called Sun Valley, and both of them were afraid that one of their most devoted fans would still decide to visit this holiday, and the party would be canceled.
Genevieve Cortez lived in Sun Valley before she fled to New York to attend college and pursue her dreams of big stage and film. She started her career with the TV series Wildfire. Jared Padalecki, albeit not a god, but under two meters tall, after graduating from high school in San Antonio, almost immediately became one of those charming young men who drive women crazy with one look, and therefore the Gilmore Girls series simply could not help but be successful with the female half of its audience.
As for Cortes, according to her own mother Camille Butt, who raised her four children in the Valley, the beginnings of a love for cinema and a desire to conquer the screens appeared in her very early.
“One morning, when I had just put all the children in the car, Zheng, who was then only seven years old, said: “Mom, you know we need to go soon. We have to go to Hollywood because I am an ACTRESS!” She always put on performances, her mother says.
In her senior year, Cortez decided to go to a boarding school in California with her brother, however, having been there at all, she regretted her decision very bitterly. Young Genevieve did not have a way back, “I paid, so you are staying,” her mother answered firmly. After the boarding school, Cortes entered New York University and was enrolled in one of the most prestigious and famous faculties - the Tisch School of Arts. Thus, the foundation was laid for her future acting career and, consequently, meeting her future husband.
When the future couple was planning a wedding, the desires of the bride and groom coincided: a winter wedding in Sunny Valley. Most of the most stylish wedding celebrations take place in the summer - this time of year provides an opportunity to dream up, release a barefoot bride and groom to the altar, and perform a ritual on a mountaintop. However, a winter celebration taking place in a warm room, while snow is silently falling outside the window, and candles are burning around, this is certainly a classic.
The wedding was planned by a family friend, and this decision turned out to be the right one. Cortez, along with event organizer Taylor Sturges, chose silver, light blue and navy for the wedding. 150 guests from all over the country were invited to the celebration. Wedding Dress and bridesmaid dresses are the work of designer Monique Lhuillier. The bride's dress was decorated with lace and wonderfully combined with the winter theme of the wedding. The bridesmaids' dresses were dark navy.
Padalecki turned out to be even more conservative than Cortez.
“He insisted that we be photographed only after we were officially married. It was really important for him not to see me in my dress before the celebration, ”recalls Genevieve.
Jared liked the family of his future wife already when he asked her father and two brothers Genevieve for her hand. Cortez Jared made an offer in New York, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they often went together. There, standing in front of their favorite painting "Jeanne d'Arc" by the French realist Jules Bastien-Lepage, he invited Genevieve to become his wife.
Thus, Cortez in her lace dress and Padalecki with their charming inimitable dimples on her cheeks met at the altar, to which the bride was led by her father Geoffrey Butt and her brother John Cortez. Outside, as expected, the snow was falling silently.
Two years later, a son, Thomas Colton Padalecki, was born into the Padalecki family.
“We went through countless names, probably all that we met in books and a couple more that we came up with ourselves, but, in the end, we agreed that first we would get to know our baby in person, and only then we would come up with, what to call it,” Jared Padalecki told Tonic magazine in October 2011.
And recently, at the end of July this year, Jared confirmed that his wife was pregnant with her second child.
“Oh gods, I got on the plane and only then realized that I didn’t finish my tweet! I still can't get used to this 140 character limit. I confirm that Genevieve is pregnant!” - Jared posted on his twitter.
“I am very happy that I have my family, my job and my friends, I would like them to be with me forever, it seems to me that my biggest fear is the fear of losing them,” Jared once said.
Photos of a happy family
At the end of 2013, the couple had a second son, who was named Austin Shepard Padalecki. The first of the two names is an homage to the Texas city where the Padalecki family settled immediately after their wedding. The baby's parents call him simply Shep.
Genevieve and Jared dream of a large traditional family, so the news of the third pregnancy of the actress was greeted by the couple's fans with great joy. Thomas and Shep Padalecki met their tiny sister in March 2017. The baby was named Odette Elliot.
Jared splits his time between his home in Austin, Texas, and Vancouver, Canada, where Supernatural is filmed.
Social activity
Fans love Jared Padalecki not only for his acting talent, but also for kind heart. In 2015, Jared began a joint campaign with a charity that helps people with mental illness, depression and addictions. As part of the collaboration, a T-shirt was released with a photo of the actor and the slogan "Always keep fighting." To date, over 100,000 of these T-shirts have been sold. Proceeds from sales are used to help people going through a difficult period in their lives.
In an interview timed to coincide with the launch of the campaign, Jared Padalecki said that he became interested in charitable work thanks to his colleague on the CW channel Stephen Amell. The Supernatural star also shared his experiences with depression. During the filming of the show's third season, he was diagnosed with clinical depression, which the Padalecki helped him overcome. best friend, as well as the performer of the role of his brother Jensen Ackles.
In the summer of 2017, a powerful hurricane hit the city of Houston, Texas. Genevieve and Jared took part in a charity fundraising campaign for the victims.
Padagolic. With my imagination and without drugs, not bad.
Brief retelling Q&A with Jared.
To begin with, I’ll say that this happened to me for the first and only time in my life (in the sense that I’m unlikely to participate in this on future horses), and I didn’t even know what to expect. It lasted 30 minutes, there were 19 more fans. I was sitting in 17th place, in the second row, zero point. Jared sat directly across from me and we sometimes looked into each other's eyes when I wasn't terrified (it's like looking at the sun). Still, it was wonderful, a great chance to talk with him in a chamber setting. So, back to the retelling...
I will write the main thing from what I remember. Probably, everything will be out of order, but I definitely remember that my questions were somewhere at the end ...
We sat in front of the room where everyone took pictures and Jensen was still posing with the fans. The music was playing loudly and Jared joked: “Yes, there is a disco right here! Let's dance!
We started with congratulations related to his future fatherhood, he thanked us and shared some details.
He worries more than women. He is very worried and wants everything to go perfectly for Wife and child, and she calms him all the time.
He thinks that babies are mostly ugly and alien-like, but he knows that when his son is born, things will be different. "But they're all so red and shriveled and not at all pretty."
Genevieve wants the birth to be natural, without drugs or surgery, so they are looking for a suitable center in Seattle. They would look in Vancouver, but in the US, “there is a greater chance that she will be seen by the same doctor throughout her pregnancy, which is important.” They have the right car and when the time is right they can get to Seattle in about 2 hours(?), they hope it won't be a problem. He also mentioned that he was going to bring his son to the site to look after him.
He was also asked about why he wants Sam and Dean to die at the end of the series - we said we didn't agree with that. 
When everyone protested violently, he laughed at it. He suggested that if the fans didn't want the brothers to die at the end, the writers would probably take that into account and not piss off the fans. There will be no need to kill them if the fans don't want to. He briefly described season 67 (my estimate) when they would be old enough to have to hunt with walkers.
Another fan asked what was the last book he read. Jared raved about Laura Hildebrand's book Unbroken (original full title: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption) and said it was a wonderful book.
Jared also told how he met a guy at a bar the day before, how they talked about books. They were discussing books, and then a woman came up and said that if they weren't watching the game, then they needed to leave the bar.
He was asked a question about Sadie and Harley. He replied that they were fine and that Sadie was getting older. She is about 8 years old, and she has become a little slower.
He also talked about Indy, Zhen's dog, that she is always nervous and looks like she's about to have a seizure. It's just laughter on legs for all who know her. She is afraid of everything.
What baseball team does he support? Since he's from San Antonio, he's always rooted for the Houston Astros and the Texas Rangers. But now "only for Texas!"
At some point, Jensen collapsed and told us to be quiet. Jared said something like, "Dude, didn't you know? It's a disco! Jensen feigned rage and left, slamming the door.
Someone asked how Jared met Brian Buckley. He replied that he met him through an acquaintance whom he met in the movies - on the movie Lone Wolf, if I'm not mistaken. His friend was then friends with Brian. Jared was well received at his home when he had a break from filming Flight of the Phoenix in Africa, he then returned to the US. Note: Brian was originally an actor and, according to Jared, a phenomenal actor. So Brian played the guitar and sang, and Jared liked it so much that he asked if he could download the song on an iPod. Word for word, and he became the producer of Brian's first album, you know the rest.
I asked him if he often goes to Texas, because I live there. 
He asked me where I was from, I said I was from Houston, and he mentioned that a couple of his best friends live there. He added that he is not at home as often as he would like, because he is busy all the time. He and Zhen are preoccupied with parenting every weekend, but he would like to come there on vacation.
He also said that he grew up in San Antonio, how they went to Houston and Dallas every vacation, how they went to Schlitterbahn (a cool water park near San Antonio). He also remembered a story about how his brother and cousin worked there and “repaired” one of the slopes so that the water did not go down, but up. They were fired for this, but his brother (or cousin, I don't remember exactly) turned out to be a sly one, and after being "fired" he said something like: "Oh, my neck hurts. How do you say contact your lawyer? The guy who put them out of work went away for a while and came back with a manager - they ended up getting a promotion.
How I wish I could remember more! But this is all that remains in my memory. Half an hour flashed by like a flash, the impressions remained vague. I was so worried, but everything went well. Jared turned out to be a cool guy and didn't ask a bit, which is great.
Jared wakes up alone on the thirty-first day. His brain refuses to believe his heart, but the other half of the bed is empty. His "cat", Jensen, fell again at dawn. Every night, Jensen comes in, pleased with himself and very cheerful, and drags Jared from the doorway into the routine of the funnel, which he stubbornly calls the soul.
... if today I am with you, then you value me. I so want to part with melancholy, but it is again like knives in me ...
"March red cat" - that's what Jared calls his night guest. Because Ackles is the indiscreet master of the situation. Because he rips Jared in half and scatters the pieces, slapping them beautifully. And then until the morning, more viscous and with some kind of sick tenderness, he sews Padalecki together. Seam after seam, she lays the strings of new constellations, adding her own red stars to the rows of moles. Sometimes he doesn't come. Then Jared turns off the phone, locks the door, which he doesn't usually do, and twirls his hand around the glass of hard liquor. Sometimes his body refuses to move, settling somewhere in the back of the room, waiting for the cat. He shows up two hours later.
blowing smoke at night, the phone is off. here it is silent, and the night will pass, so imperceptibly leave a mark. Yes. Well, fair wind to us. brother for brother here. I know you believe in me. no matter how it was there, brother, I'm into you too. even though the path is so hard, even if grenades fly - we will stand, because the goal is one, and our cards.
He throws back his shabby backpack, which he always carries on one shoulder, leaves it in the center of the room. Exhaling sternly, he begins to collect the clothes scattered around the room, sends the glasses to the sink, takes out the finished dinner from the freezer, fastidiously moving his nose, casually throws it into the microwave oven. Sometimes Jared feels like this is his punishment. Jensen. The most important thing for a person who, in fact, was not a sinner, but he cannot be considered a saint either. Something between personal hell class standard. 'Cause this redheaded horror gives half of what it can by gleaming green eyes, and takes three times more than it can carry. But nevertheless, Padalecki feels that this is enough for him to pull himself up higher. He places the glass on the table next to him, and an indecently loud sound echoes through the apartment. The silence abruptly stops and turns three hundred and sixty degrees, along with Jensen.
we will stand, because the goal is one, and the cards are ours. my flight has gained altitude, the city is sleeping, and I have an extra year in it. pushing off the ground like a trampoline to space stations. higher.
Ackles maneuvers between the furniture, to his would-be lover, and, without invitation, sits on his knees. The fume makes him wince and recoil in disgust. "You should stop that filth," the cat whines, and Jared realizes he's been silent for a very long time. Probably the longest way. His shirt and skin smell of the street. He works there - sells newspapers and magazines, and lives three floors above Padalecki. Jared once held an elevator for a guy who was running like it was his last elevator. Since then, the green-eyed nightmare terrorizes Jared every single day. “I can’t leave you, you come by yourself,” Padalecki replies. “Scored,” Jensen smiles and leans over to the guy, catching his lips first on his lower lip and then on his upper, biting down on the chapped skin. Licks and heals. He stands up and pulls Jared along, by the arms, stretching the shapeless sleeve even further. He needs to put his treasure to bed before the drunken demarches and attempts to make Jensen an offer to live together begin. But Jensen is happy with his apartment, it's three floors up. It's always cloudy, but you can see the stars. You can hardly hear the rumble that always stands on the highway below. Smells and human voices do not reach there. Above all problems, above the sun and stars, but the scary thing is that Jensen sometimes neglects it in order to go down to Jared. It's beyond Jensen's comprehension—brown eyes, thin, fox-like features, large palms, copper strands on either side of his face, and the haggard look of a man who's too hurt to say don't go.
hold my hand tighter, because I, not noticing the slope, hurrying somewhere in the opposite direction, flew into the window of a house that was not my own.
Jensen wonders what will be "higher" for Jared when he kicks Ackles out of his apartment, or gets angry and just won't let his cat back in. It seems to him that Jared is strange, because he is constantly silent and smiles exhaustedly, as if he had not been taught this elementary movement. Jensen puts his cheeks under his large palms, allowing him to divide his soul into exactly two parts - “before” and “after”. He's crazy good, so he doesn't break Jared's silence. Is it not enough that he keeps it in it? What are the words and sounds? Jensen smiles. - I have an irregular schedule. “Your whole life is like this,” Jared wheezes, allowing himself to be sat down on the bed and stripped of his clothes. His fermented blood warms slightly from such close contact, and his veins light up. Jared clumsily grabs Jensen and pulls him towards him, falling onto the bed. His cat settles down on top, smiles into his neck, scratches over his bones, along his ribs, happy that he was sheltered at a great height.
there is no attraction, I spread my wing, falling lower, I crash against your house to the ground.
Jensen has nothing to breathe, his alien body crushed him, and it’s not a sin to admit that he has been dreaming of such a lack of oxygen for the past few years. Outside the window, fog slowly descends onto the highway, as if someone had dropped a cotton handkerchief from a great height. Current flows through the body. The shocks flatten the other's hands and Jensen closes his eyes because no one has ever loved him like he's somewhere in the center of the universe. In the center of the universe, Jared lives very well. There are no other planets here, and the sun is only one, and only for one. It seems to Ackles that to die now is to lose nothing, because this is one of the best actions in his life. I want to stay here forever, but in the morning Jared will tighten his tie around his neck, put on his white shirt and run away to work like a fire. Because he'll oversleep if Jensen is around. Or it won't wake up at all. And in the morning the cat will put on his frayed sneakers and reach the stall, where a line of people, just like Jared, will be waiting for him. Yes, he is in love, because he has the right to come and go as he pleases. He is forgiven for this, and he does not mind taking advantage of the fact that his Jared is also hopelessly in love. The night passes too quickly, like so many before it. Jensen is awake, looking at Jared's arms that are wrapped around him like vines, listening to Jared breathing behind his back, rubbing his cheek against Jensen's back, half asleep, checking to see if he's still there. And then he will fasten his palms into a lock and press Jensen to himself, as if trying to merge into one big constellation of cells and nerve nodes. But Jensen will still slip away to his house in the morning. Today, Jared woke up alone. The office may be closed on Saturday, but the newsstand should be open. Jared rolls over on his side in bed, puts his arm under his head, before a quiet voice comes from the kitchen: "Get up, help me move things." Jared's smile can outshine a thousand suns. Jensen comes into the room with two cups of tea and a book tucked under his arm. - Good morning? Ackles asks. In response, Jared raises his hand up, revealing a place where his cat can lie down comfortably. He does so. She puts the cups down on the table and lays down with Jared, settling at his side. A heavy hand immediately covers his reproach torso. "I'll help, wake up and help," Jared whispers and wraps himself back in his warm sleep. Jensen kisses his nose and goes back to his book. But who needs to live above the sun, if it is three floors below?
We are not afraid of heights - we are afraid of falling and breaking; we are not afraid of the dark - we are afraid of what is hidden in it; we are afraid not to admit - we are afraid that this is not mutual. We're just afraid of the consequences. ©
The law of place, time and circumstance says: time is the most main force. When you were born, at what time, will determine everything in your life. The place where you live is also important. Location defines quality. It is said that people born in the north are mostly slow, calm, very gloomy and not very sociable, unlike their fellow southerners - full of energy, talkative, emotional and smiling, satisfied with their own lives. How true this statement is, who knows. Everything is relative. Born on a July afternoon in San Antonio, hot from the heat, caressed from the first minutes solar heat, Jared Tristan Padalecki just couldn't grow up otherwise. "My sun" - my mother always called him that. It didn't matter if he was four, fourteen or twenty. My father sometimes laughed skeptically - they say that a guy needs to be raised strong, courageous, with character. Then the truth will achieve something in life. She only smiled absently: I can’t help it. Jared is too unlike neither the calmly reasonable brother Jeffrey, nor the sister Megan - a sweet, shy girl. Don't you see, Gerald, how cheerful, open, sincere he is with us. Solar. And dad fell silent, and a little later patted him on his shaggy head and, laughing at his displeased wrinkled nose, loudly announced: “Well, a shard of the sun named Jared, call your brother and go to basketball.” "The sun is mine." Two words spoken about him always. Only intonations changed: affectionately, with love, reproachfully, upset, sad. Depending on actions. And he tried to live up to expectations. Communicative? Certainly! And Jared, as best he could, always tried to be in the spotlight, surrounded by friends. Cheerful and cheerful? But how! He was a ringleader in companies and the organizer of the most sparkling and funny pranks. Open and friendly? Still would! If you ask for help, then Jay will never refuse. Long grievances and hatred - this is not about him, is it? Over time, this constant of the children's world left an indelible imprint on his character, firmly settled inside, sprouted, took root and smoothly flowed into a lifestyle. Who said the sun shines all the time? Exactly. Broken knees, a fight with the tomboy next door, the first school failures - Jared was not a lucky bewitched. There were frustrations and disappointments. Always surrounded were those to whom his eternal smile and gaiety were a bone in the throat. So there were broken noses and knees, so Jared saw other facets of this world. Hatred, anger, betrayal. So far, he could only oppose this with his faith in goodness and philanthropy. And all the fancy shades transitional age did not bypass the lanky entity. There was Lori - as expected, the first and traditionally unhappy love. And Karen. And Stephanie. And… Each time Padalecki felt like it was for life. Which is exactly what it is. Great and unique. But a month, two, six months passed, and he again embarked on an active search. And from the previous relationship there was only an unpleasant aftertaste and bewilderment - but everything was serious, wasn't it? Or not? At times, Jared himself wondered: is he really so windy and fickle? Is his sunny nature not capable of a long real and serious feeling? At such moments, he recklessly rushed not somewhere, but home. It was necessary to endure, get sick a little, hide in the corner of your room and wait - a sunny boy cannot be gloomy, a sunny boy is always doing well. After all, friends are used to seeing him as the soul of the company. Once, finding her son in such a state, Sharon Padalecki uttered a phrase that he remembered for a lifetime: “It’s not a shame to be sad, son. Sometimes the sun also needs clouds, because after the rain it shines brighter.” Then he, fifteen, could not restrain himself and burst into tears in his mother's arms. And it got easier. At home, safe, it always got easier. This habit Jared kept for many years. And even having rushed to conquer the boundless Hollywood expanses, even having become quite famous, wealthy and independent, no, no, and yes, he returned to his native hot Texas. There, where you could be yourself, where the clouds no longer frightened. Just a little sun and everything was fine again. But by the will of fate, he got the eternally crying, raining Canada. And she slowly killed him.
