Recent working experience of Jared Padalecki
Padalecki had an uncredited part as a high school bully in 2003's comedy Cheaper by the Dozen, which he played after being asked by fellow actor and friend Tom Welling, who played the part of Charlie Baker, and the director of the movie, who both wanted someone bigger than Welling to pick on him. Padalecki originally auditioned for Welling's role, but gave it up in order to film a pilot titled Young MacGyver which was never picked up. In 2004, he appeared in the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen comedy New York Minute, and also had a role in the thriller Flight of the Phoenix. In 2005, Padalecki starred opposite Elisha Cuthbert, Chad Michael Murray and Paris Hilton in the horror film House of Wax, and appeared in another horror film, Cry Wolf. The same year, Padalecki was cast as Sam Winchester on the WB series, Supernatural. The fifth season began broadcast on September 10, 2009 on the CW. The show is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Padalecki also served as the host of MTV's horror reality series, Room 401.
He appeared in 2008's The Christmas Cottage, in which he played Thomas Kinkade.
Padalecki had the lead role in the new Friday the 13th film alongside Danielle Panabaker, which opened on Friday, February 13, 2009. He plays Clay Miller, a character who heads out to the doomed Camp Crystal Lake in search of his sister who has gone missing.
Jared Padalecki's movies in recent years
2005 House of Wax Wade
Cry Wolf Tom
2007 House of Fears J.P.
2008 Thomas Kinkade's Home for Christmas Thomas Kinkade
2009 Friday the 13th Clay Miller