Jensen Ackles was born in Dallas, Texas, to Roger Alan Ackles and Donna Joan Shaffer. After modeling as a young child, he began to concentrate on a acting career in 1996 upon his graduation from Lloyd V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas. In 1997, he received a role on the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives" (1965) as Eric Brady, for which he won a 1998 Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer.After leaving "Days of Our Lives" (1965) in 2000, Ackles went to Vancou ...[Read Story]