ACTOR

Jensen Ackles

1978 - Today

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Jensen Ross Ackles (born March 1, 1978) is an American actor and musician. He is best known for his portrayal of Dean Winchester in The WB/CW dark fantasy drama series Supernatural (2005–2020) and appearing in television series such as NBC's Days of Our Lives as Eric Brady (earning him several Daytime Emmy Award nominations), super soldiers Ben/X5-493 and Alec/X5-494 in Fox's Dark Angel, Jason Teague in The WB/CW's Smallville, and Ben/Soldier Boy in Amazon Prime Video's The Boys. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jensen Ackles has received more than 16,494,911 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Jensen Ackles is the 1,812th most popular actor (up from 2,136th in 2019), the 2,982nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,511th in 2019) and the 832nd most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 16M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 58

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Jensen Ackles by language

Over the past year Jensen Ackles has had the most page views in the with 2,119,602 views, followed by Russian (390,250), and Portuguese (282,242). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (595.65%), Slovak (552.74%), and (290.24%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jensen Ackles ranks 1,812 out of 13,578. Before him are Katherine MacGregor, Peter Cullen, Bruce Campbell, Luciana Paluzzi, Joe Turkel, and Georges Wilson. After him are Jacqueline Andere, Peg Entwistle, Stuart Whitman, Joel Grey, Mary Astor, and Barbara Valentin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1978, Jensen Ackles ranks 27. Before him are Lionel Scaloni, Johnny Sins, Ricardo Carvalho, Kevin Federline, Manny Pacquiao, and Katie Holmes. After him are Claudio Pizarro, Dirk Nowitzki, Zoe Saldana, Kakha Kaladze, Josh Hartnett, and Shunsuke Nakamura.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jensen Ackles ranks 2,982 out of 20,380. Before him are Joe Turkel (1927), Sam Loyd (1841), Ralph Rose (1885), Akon (1973), Charles Whitman (1941), and Neil Postman (1931). After him are Roderick MacKinnon (1956), Stuart Whitman (1928), Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903), Joel Grey (1932), Alfred Newman (1900), and Ronald Inglehart (1934).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Jensen Ackles ranks 832. Before him are Bo Derek (1956), Lois Chiles (1947), John Derek (1926), Katherine MacGregor (1925), Bruce Campbell (1958), and Joe Turkel (1927). After him are Stuart Whitman (1928), Joel Grey (1932), Mary Astor (1906), Donald O'Connor (1925), Marcia Gay Harden (1959), and Claude Akins (1926).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Boys
Soldier Boy
A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
8.468 / 10
Supernatural
Dean Winchester
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
8.303 / 10
My Bloody Valentine
Tom Hanniger
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry Warden wanted revenge. Exactly one year later, on Valentine’s Day, he woke up…and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed.
Jan 16o 20095.5 / 10