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'Supernatural's' Jensen Ackles turns 33: Happy birthday! Have a career retrospective with your cake
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These days, sharing a birthday with Justin Bieber has got to be pretty rough. It's kind of like being born on Christmas, if Christmas was all about a 17-year-old pop star with perfect hair. Still, Jensen Ackles has held his place in the Twitter trending topics since the calendar page flipped to March 1. We're pretty impressed, especially considering the "Supernatural" big bro doesn't even have his own Twitter page.
Zap2it does a ton of "Supernatural" coverage, but today we thought we'd do something different. In honor of Ackles' 33rd birthday, we're going into the vault. While he's undoubtedly best known for his role as the incomparable Dean Winchester, "Supernatural's" most recent episode reminded us of Ackles' younger days when it featured a clip of his run on "Days of Our Lives."
First of all -- "Days" fans may remember when in 1998, country's then-darling LeAnn Rimes was a very special guest star. She played a teenage runaway named Madison who crushed on Eric Brady (Ackles).
After wrapping up his soap opera career in 2000, Ackles went on to play Ben, a psychotic serial killer, on James Cameron's "Dark Angel." Ben was killed off quickly, but the producers liked Ackles so much they brought him back as Ben's clone, Alec (also known as X5-494, because that's the kind of show it was). We're still a little bitter that the show was canceled before we got to see Alec and Max (Jessica Alba) hook up.
Which brings us to our favorite, "Dawson's Creek," in which Ackles played CJ, a love interest for Jen (Michelle Williams). Of course, before the Jen stuff worked out, he hooked up with Audrey (Busy Philipps) first, which didn't make her boyfriend Pacey (Joshua Jackson) too happy. It made us happy, though, because it gave us the awesomeness below. (Also because it broke Pacey and Audrey up, which led him back into Joey's arms.)
Happy birthday, Jensen! We're really, really, really glad you're on "Supernatural" now.
Really.
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Awesome! Thanks for posting!
Ladies and gentlemen, the future's Peter Bishop and Dean Winchester duking it out over Laurie Keller...lol
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We're still a little bitter that the show was canceled before we got to see Alec and Max (Jessica Alba) hook up. We're still a little bitter that the show was canceled before we got to see Alec and Max (Jessica Alba) hook up. We're still a little bitter that the show was canceled before we got to see Alec and Max (Jessica Alba) hook up.
That is all.
Berrisford Agenda is still my favorite Dark Angel episode and NO, I didn't want Alec hooking up with the forever whiny Max. The show might have gone on a few years if they had killed off Max and made it the Alec and Joshua show.
Thank u for posting this! Happy birthday to Jensen Ackles! & Yes! We're really, really, really glad he's on "Supernatural" now.
I hope critics give Him more credit for acting amazingly awesome on the show!
Nothing from his Smallville days? Not even the clip where he is hung up shirtless??
Everything is his fault Carina :)
Love your article, nust have been fun to walk down Jensen memory lane!!
Thanks for the article on such a great guy and fantastic actor.
Happy 33rd Jensen, and many more.
Loved going down memory lane and Jensen is very memorable.
Happy Birthday to my favourite Winchester bro, Jensen!!
Thanks so much for the retrospective. :) It's fun to see where he started(almost - there was a Wishbone episode and Mr Rhodes too LOL) and to see how far he's come.
Given his three Daytime Emmy Nominations when he was on the soap Jensen Ackles was obviously always someone who stood out for his talent as well as his looks but everytime I think he's finally topped out and couldn't possibly turn in a better performance because he's done something so good, he always manages to one up himself. :)
I look forward to seeing the ways in which his acting will move and surprise me in the future. Good as he already is, like all great actors I feel he'll still be raising the bar for years to come.