Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester
Jared Padalecki is best known for his role on the small screen as Rory's (Alexis Bledel) boyfriend Dean on Gilmore Girls. Padalecki is currently starring in The WB's new fall thriller Supernatural, as Sam Winchester, the sweet reluctant hero who joins forces with his brother to save their father from unseen forces.

On the big screen, Padalecki was most recently seen in the Warner Bros. feature film House of Wax, opposite Chad Michael Murray and Paris Hilton. He also co-starred with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen in New York Minute, the Olsen twins' first studio feature film. In Flight of the Phoenix, Padalecki starred opposite Dennis Quaid and Giovanni Ribisi as a passenger on a cargo plane that goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board.

Additionally, Padalecki appeared in the hit film Cheaper By The Dozen, in a role for which director Shawn Levy specifically requested him. He can also be seen starring opposite Kathy Baker and Hallie Kate Eisenberg in the independent baseball movie A Little Inside.

Up next, Padalecki stars in Cry Wolf, in which he will play a precocious boarding school student who is drawn into an elaborate hoax involving a serial killer. The film is due to hit theaters in September.

Padalecki currently resides in Los Angeles with his two dogs.

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Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester
Familiar to The WB audience as Jason Teague, Lana Lang's (Kristin Kreuk) love interest on Smallville, Ackles will next be seen in Supernatural as Dean Winchester, the rugged bad boy who teams up with his younger brother to find their missing father and battle evil supernatural forces.

Ackles was also seen on Dawson's Creek in a recurring role and on Dark Angel as a series regular. His additional work in television includes co-starring in the miniseries Blonde, opposite Poppy Montgomery and Patrick Dempsey. Ackles will make his big screen debut later this year in Sony Pictures' Devour, opposite Dominique Swain and Shannon Sossymon. The film was directed by David Winkler.

In 1997, he began his acting career with much critical acclaim when he joined the cast of Days of Our Lives. In addition to three Daytime Emmy Award nominations (1998, 1999 and 2000), he won the Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer in 1998.

Ackles was born in Dallas and raised in Richardson, Texas. He now resides in Los Angeles.