Jensen Ross Ackles (born March 1, 1978) is an American actor and director. He is known for his roles in television as Eric Brady in Days of our Lives, which earned him several Daytime Emmy Award nominations, as well as Alec/X5-494 in Dark Angel and Jason Teague in Smallville. Ackles currently stars as Dean Winchester on the CW series Supernatural.
Ackles was born in Dallas, Texas, the son of Donna Joan (née Shaffer) and Alan Roger Ackles, an actor. Ackles has a brother, Joshua, who is three years older, and sister, Mackenzie, who is seven years younger. He is of English, Irish and Scottish ancestry. He had planned to study sports medicine at Texas Tech University and become a physical therapist but instead moved to Los Angeles to start his acting career.
After modelling on and off since the age of 4, Ackles began to concentrate on an acting career in 1996. He appeared in several guest roles on Mr. Rhodes, Sweet Valley High, and Cybill before joining the cast of the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives as Eric Brady in 1997. He won a 1998 Soap Opera Digest Award for Best Male Newcomer and went on to be nominated three times (in 1998, 1999, and 2000) for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his work on Days of our Lives.
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Words & music by Graham Nash and Joe Vitale
Did you ever wonder why
There are cameras in the sky?
I can see them all on high,
Looking at the people. Did you
Ever wonder when they'll
Come and take you in
Again? Well, they've been
Listening on your line, looking
Through your T.V. And the
Ghost of George Orwell is
Turning in his grave. Is everybody
A slave? Did you ever
Wonder why there are blinders
On your eyes? But they're
A blessing in disguise. Check
More tough news on the late night TV
News lady tells me that it's cold outside
Man gets his carjacked, graveyard gets ransacked
Everybody knows that there ain't no place to hide
Late night drive-by, there's blood on the sidewalk
Rain's gonna wash out that stain someday
That stupid kid should have known this ain't no
cakewalk
You can't just wear your bandana that way
Ain't that freedom for you
Ain't that freedom for you
Freedom American style
Hot car rollin' down an empty highway
The keys were in it man it serves the owner right
The youg girl attacked in the woods off the parkway
She should have known not to jog alone at night
Drugs rule downtown, gangs rule midtown
You're on your own when they both collide
I keep my doors locked with bars on my window
Got an alarm in my car, keep my kids inside
Ain't that freedom for you
Ain't that freedom for you
Freedom American style
More tough news on the late night TV
News lady tells me that it's cold outside
Man gets his carjacked, graveyard gets ransacked
Everybody knows that there ain't no place to hide
I keep my arms around whatever I've got
It's an alright world but you know I watch myself
I'm virtually free to do whatever I want
But I try to remember so is everybody else
Ain't that freedom for you
Ain't that freedom for you
Freedom American style
Ain't that freedom for you
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