Bela: You know, when this is over, we should really have angry sex.
Dean: Don't objectify me.
—Red Sky At Morning
He's one of those actors where you can throw anything at him from an acting challenge point of view; you can shoot him, tie him up, torture him, dumb him down, make him all bloody and bruised, wring the emo from him and generally have him flung against a hard, inanimate object nearly every episode and he'll eat it up with a spoon and knock it out of the park every damn time.
Is
Heterosexual Life Partners with
Supernatural co-star
Jared Padalecki and is also one of the rare examples of being a Western
Bishōnen.
As well as being known for
embarrassing
◊ modeling
◊ photos
where he looks like
underage
◊ jailbait
◊, he's also well-known for being in shows such as
Supernatural (Dean Winchester),
Dark Angel (twins Ben & Alec) and
Smallville (Jason Teague), as well as being in some god-awful movies like Devour (Jake Gray) and the 3D remake of
My Bloody Valentine (Tom Hanniger). His first big part was actually on
Days of Our Lives, as Eric Roman Brady (Sami's twin).
Most recently outside of
Supernatural he has done the
Voice Acting for the titular villain of
Batman: Under the Red Hood, the ISO character Gibson in the computer game
Tron: Evolution, a prequel to the movie
Tron: Legacy, and Kyle Madigan, a character from the video game
The 3rd Birthday, the 3rd game in the
Parasite Eve series. In an example of
What Could Have Been, he was in talks to play Leon Kennedy in the fourth
Resident Evil film, before the delays and the extensive rewrites.
He also has possibly the most batshit crazy
fanbase of all time. And with the hooker/child abuse fic, an obsessed fan telling everyone that she was his wife, a whole community devoted to how
chubby he is,
LiveJournal's mind-boggling insistence that he's a douchebag with no sense of humor (
yeah, right
) who can't stand anyone, being assaulted at a convention, the
Real Person Fic slash with Padalecki and the rumors of his inability to read (
because he's pretty, you see, he can't have a brain) and so on and so forth, can you blame him for being a little terrified of them?
Despite it all, he is still considered to be the friendliest face on the set. He is often noted for taking the entire cast of
Supernatural, even the extras, for drinks at the end of a shoot. Bang up guy.
He is married to longtime girlfriend Danneel Harris.