40 Fun Facts About Jared Padalecki

Which actor played the older brother of Jared Padalecki's Sam Winchester across fifteen seasons?

Jensen Ackles auditioned alongside Padalecki, and their immediate chemistry was credited with winning them both the lead roles.

Which Stars Hollow teenager did Jared Padalecki play on Gilmore Girls between 2000 and 2005?

Dean Forester was recast after the first pilot was shot, with newcomer Padalecki replacing the original actor in the role that first made him famous.

Jared Padalecki spent fifteen years filming Supernatural mainly in which Canadian city?

Vancouver hosted every episode except the pilot, which was shot in Los Angeles, and supplied many Canadian actors also seen in The X-Files.

Jared Padalecki, who later filmed the series Walker in his home state, was born in which Texas city?

San Antonio was home until 2000, when Padalecki dropped his plan to attend university in his home state and moved to the Los Angeles area to act.

Which Wildfire actress did Jared Padalecki marry in 2010 after they met on the set of Supernatural?

Genevieve Cortese has been credited under her married name ever since a February 2011 episode of Supernatural.

In which 2009 horror reboot did Jared Padalecki play Clay Miller, searching for his missing sister?

Friday the 13th was the franchise's twelfth film, and its makers redesigned the killer Jason Voorhees as a lean, quick hunter.

What is the name of the mental health T-shirt campaign that Jared Padalecki launched in March 2015?

Always Keep Fighting grew out of Padalecki's candour about his own depression, and its second round alone sold more than 70,000 shirts.

In which mid-2000s horror remake did Jared Padalecki play Wade, boyfriend to Elisha Cuthbert's Carly?

House of Wax was director Jaume Collet-Serra's feature debut; critics panned it, but it later gathered a cult following.

Which American painter did Jared Padalecki portray in a 2008 Christmas film opposite Peter O'Toole?

Thomas Kinkade appears as a Berkeley art student who goes home to Placerville, California, for the Christmas break of 1977.

Jared Padalecki's father, Gerald, is of which European descent, while his mother has German and Scottish roots?

Polish descent comes from his father's side only; his mother, Sherri, has English ancestry as well.

At which university is Jared Padalecki's Sam Winchester a law-school hopeful when Supernatural begins?

Stanford was Sam's escape: he enrolled after a heated argument with his father, splitting from the family's hunting crusade.

On Gilmore Girls, Jared Padalecki's character becomes the first boyfriend of which teenager in season one?

Rory meets him in the pilot, when he turns up as a new student at Stars Hollow High School with a crush on her.

Which archangel claims Jared Padalecki's Sam Winchester as his true vessel in Supernatural's fifth season?

Lucifer needed Sam's consent, and Sam finally gave it as part of a plan to jump into the cage and trap them both in Hell.

Which Supernatural creator later cast Jared Padalecki in a guest role on the superhero satire The Boys?

Eric Kripke had already put other Supernatural stars in The Boys, and joked that casting Padalecki would complete his collection.

In which 2004 Olsen twins comedy did Jared Padalecki play Trey Lipton, the son of a powerful senator?

New York Minute was the Olsen twins' second and final theatrical release, and the last film to feature both sisters.

In which Steve Martin comedy did Jared Padalecki make an uncredited appearance as a high school bully?

Cheaper by the Dozen needed someone larger than the eldest Baker son to pick on him, so Padalecki was asked to step in.

Supernatural premiered in 2005 on which network, already home to Jared Padalecki's Gilmore Girls?

The WB was its first home; Supernatural later moved to The CW, where it ran until November 2020 as that network's longest-running series.

Which Texas city proclaimed a 'Supernatural Day' in June 2018 to honor Jared Padalecki and his co-star?

Austin's mayor, Steve Adler, made the proclamation because both of the show's lead actors had made their homes in the area.

Which demon did the actress Jared Padalecki later married play in the fourth season of Supernatural?

Ruby had previously been played by Katie Cassidy; the recast introduced Padalecki to the actress he would go on to marry.

Which streaming service revived Gilmore Girls in 2016, bringing Jared Padalecki back for one episode?

Netflix released A Year in the Life worldwide in November 2016, with each of its four feature-length episodes representing a season of the year.

On which CBS drama did Jared Padalecki guest-star as captain Camden Casey during its third season?

Fire Country cast him as a Southern California fire captain for a three-episode stint, announced with the possibility of his headlining a spin-off.

At San Diego Comic-Con 2015, fans surprised Jared Padalecki at the Supernatural panel by holding up what?

Candles were raised by more than 6,000 fans in support, months after Padalecki had spoken publicly about his depression.

Which 2005 horror co-star of Jared Padalecki later appeared on Supernatural as a god wearing her own face?

Paris Hilton played Leshi in the season-five episode Fallen Idols, a god that takes the form of well-known faces, including hers.

Which rock frontman starred alongside Jared Padalecki in the 2005 boarding-school slasher Cry Wolf?

Jon Bon Jovi was among the leads of Cry Wolf, which earned $32.5 million worldwide on a budget of just $1 million.

Jared Padalecki gave up a film role to shoot an unsold 2003 pilot spun off from which 1980s action series?

MacGyver was meant to get a spin-off, Young MacGyver, but only the pilot was made and it was never picked up.

Which Smallville star asked his friend Jared Padalecki to play a bully who picks on him in a 2003 comedy?

Tom Welling had won the part of the eldest son, a role Padalecki himself first auditioned for before giving it up.

What is the first name of Walker, the Texas Ranger played first by Chuck Norris and later by Jared Padalecki?

Cordell Walker comes home to his family after a long undercover assignment, and Padalecki also served as an executive producer.

On Walker, which figure in the Texas Ranger's life was played by the actress Jared Padalecki married?

His late wife, Emily, is the mother of Walker's two teenagers, Stella and August, and appears mostly in the first season.

On Gilmore Girls, Jared Padalecki's character had moved to Stars Hollow from which big city?

Chicago was his old home, and the character went on to appear in each of the show's first five seasons, two of them as a main cast member.

In which Supernatural episode is Sam Winchester sent to a world where he is an actor named Jared Padalecki?

The French Mistake has the angel Balthazar send the brothers to a reality where their lives are a TV show whose crew keeps getting in the way.

Which X-Files actor played Sam Winchester's grandfather on Supernatural and Jared Padalecki's father on Walker?

Mitch Pileggi was Samuel Campbell, Sam's namesake, then Bonham Walker; years earlier he had guest-starred on the original Walker, Texas Ranger.

Room 401, the MTV prank show Jared Padalecki hosted, was named after the hospital room where which entertainer died?

Harry Houdini died in Room 401 of Detroit's Grace Hospital in 1926, and the horror-themed pranks borrowed from some of his famous acts.

Winning Fox's 1999 'Claim to Fame' contest sent Jared Padalecki to which ceremony, where he met an agent?

The Teen Choice Awards trip led to representation, and within a year Padalecki had been cast in Gilmore Girls.

Jared Padalecki proposed in 2009 in front of a painting of Joan of Arc at which Manhattan institution?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the couple's favourite painting, an 1879 Joan of Arc by the realist painter Jules Bastien-Lepage.

In which Idaho town, the hometown of his bride, did Jared Padalecki get married in February 2010?

Sun Valley hosted the wedding less than five months after the proposal, and only weeks after the engagement was made public.

Jared Padalecki's first charity T-shirt sale in 2015 raised funds for which mental health nonprofit?

To Write Love on Her Arms supports people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide, a cause close to Padalecki.

What was the name of the 1990s-themed bar that Jared Padalecki opened in his home state in 2018?

Stereotype was Padalecki's move into nightlife, built around the decade in which he grew up and landed his first screen role.

Which angel secretly possesses Jared Padalecki's Sam Winchester early in Supernatural's ninth season?

Gadreel won Sam's consent while disguised as his brother, then set about healing him from within without Sam knowing.

Jared Padalecki guest-starred in the final season of The Boys as which former member of the Seven?

Mister Marathon lost his place in the Seven to Reggie Franklin, better known as A-Train; fellow Supernatural star Misha Collins guest-starred too.

Jared Padalecki executive-produced a Walker prequel set in the 1800s and named after which Texas town?

Independence, Texas is where Bostonian Abby Walker, an ancestor of Padalecki's Ranger, ends up after her husband is murdered on the journey west.