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J Qualls is mostly known for his extremely thin frame and quirky sense of humor. What most people probably don’t know is that he is a proud cancer survivor and an advocate for cancer research and awareness. Donald Joseph “DJ” Qualls was born on June 10, 1978 in Nashville, Tennessee. He is one of five children born to Debbie and Connie Qualls. DJ was raised in Manchester, Tennessee where he attended Coffee Cup Central High School. At age fourteen, DJ was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma and was said to be in remission after two years of treatment. After graduating from high school, DJ attended the University of London in England where he studied English and literature. Following that, he returned to Nashville, Tennessee where he attended Belmont University and began acting in a local theater company.
DJ’s acting career began in 1994 when he was cast as an extra in the HBO movie Against the Wall. He then landed the small role of Jason in the television miniseries Mama Flora’s Family in 1998. When he auditioned for a one-liner roll in Road Trip in 2000, he was asked to meet with producer Ivan Reitman in California. DJ debuted as shy virgin Kyle Edwards in said film. Following Road Trip, he was discovered by photographers David LaChapelle and Steve Klein and spent some time modeling for Prada. Some of his other films include Comic Book Villains, Big Trouble, Lone Star State of Mind, The New Guy (my personal favorite!), The Core, Delta Force, and Hustle & Flow. He has also appeared on television shows such as Monk, Scrubs, Criminal Minds, Lost, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, CSI, Numb3rs, My Name Is Earl, Breaking Bad, The Big Bang Theory, Memphis Beat, and, most recently, Legit.
We know him from Supernatural, of course, where he portrays hunter Garth Fitzgerald IV. Garth went to college and dental school before his first case in which he claims he killed the Tooth Fairy. Although Garth usually works alone, he has used Bobby as a resource in the past and teamed up with the Winchesters a few times. He is most notably quoted as saying “You’ve been Garthed” when he ganks a bad guy. Garth has appeared in quite a few episodes. We first hear of Garth during season six’s episode “Weekend at Bobby’s” when he calls up Bobby for help on a case he’s working. The first time we see Garth is during season seven’s “Time for a Wedding”. When Sam is put under a spell by Becky Rosen and goes missing, and Bobby is busy on a case of his own, Dean enlists Garth to help him with a case. Next is the Garth-centric episode “Party On, Garth” where he calls Dean and Sam for help with a case concerning a spirit known as a “shojo”. We don’t see Garth again until season eight’s “Southern Comfort” where Garth has taken over the hunting community after Bobby’s death and has the job of answering hunter calls and giving advice about different monsters. Together the trio hunts a Spectre that leaves behind green goo and was woken up when its grave was disturbed. This is the last that we actually see of Garth, but he is mentioned (or calls the boys) in the season eight episodes “A Little Slice of Kevin”, “Hunteri Heroici”, “Torn and Frayed”, “LARP and the Real Girl”, “As Time Goes By”, “Everbody Hates Hitler”, “Trial and Error”, and “Freaks and Geeks”.
While to the fans of Supernatural, Garth will never be able to fill Bobby’s shoes, DJ’s character has been very well received. He has been invited to the notorious Supernatural conventions and has been a great hit with the attending fans. I know that I long for the day that that I can see Garth and Mr. Fizzles on my television screen again… and I’m sure I’m not alone!
Lastly, the staff here at Supernatural-Fandom.com
wants to wish DJ a very happy belated birthday!!!
Sources:
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Qualls
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0702809/
Super Wiki: http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Garth
crime drama ‘The Killing’, as a young juvenile delinquent, quite different from his Supernatural roles.
More recently, Tyler Johnston has made a huge impact on Supernatural fans all over the world. While a quick Google search won’t bring up much about his life before acting, he has certainly become an icon in the Supernatural world. Like many of Supernatural’s actors, Tyler Johnston has not only appeared as the more recent angel Samandriel, he first joined the Supernatural roster in season 1, as young Matt Pike from the episode ‘Bugs’. Here he played a young boy obsessed with bugs who helped
Sam and Dean on their way to figure out why the bugs were acting so crazy. Not being on very good terms with his dad, Matt had something that Sam could relate to, and I’m sure most fans never forgot his strange but harmless character.
inside Cas’ head so Samandriel meets his end at the hands of Cas while trying to warn him about Heaven.
Born April 22, 1966 in Seattle, Washington, primarily of Scottish heritage, Jeffrey Dean Morgan has a long list of characters credited to his name. Starting in the early 90′s, Morgan had many roles in a wide variety of shows starting with Uncaged, Undercover Heat and JAG, before landing the role of Dr. Edward Marcase in The Burning Zone around 1996. After taking on a few more one episode roles on shows such as Walker, Texas Ranger and ER, he was cast as Judah Botwin, Mary Louise Parker’s deceased husband on Weeds, where he appeared through flashbacks and old video tapes. But, before all that, our ever charming Winchester patriarch wanted to be a basketball player. After graduating high school, he went on to Skagit Valley Community College on a basketball scholarship, which ended when he injured his knee. He tried his hand at acting in musicals such as “Grease” and “West Side Story” with a local theater company. After working several odd jobs, Jeffrey visited a friend living in Los Angeles and decided to stick around and give acting a try.
While taping Weeds, Jeffrey was also casted as the missing father to two boys on a brand new show on the then WB, (you might know this one folks) called Supernatural, which premiered in 2005. The following year, Jeffrey was also cast in the role that some say brought the long awaited recognition that he deserved. Originally thought to be a small role as a love interest for Ellen Pompeo, Morgan was cast as Denny Duquette, a man who desperately needed a heart transplant on Grey’s Anatomy. His character ended up having such amazing chemistry with Katherine Heigel’s character 
instead and fans loved them so much, a few episode arc turned into two seasons. Those roles paid off and he was cast in his first feature film, P.S. I Love You, as Hilary Swank’s love interest, William. Soon, with another feature film under his belt, Warner Brother’s The Watchmen, where he played “The Comedian”, a Vietnam vet who is part of a superhero group called “the 
Minutemen”. Next appearing in another Warner Brother film, The Losers in 2010, he then showed up in a string of independent films before going on to play Ike Evans in Magic City, a Starz Original program.
You can catch Jeffrey Dean Morgan currently in 
Rick Worthy was born on March 12, 1967. He is a native of Detroit, Michigan and graduated from Southfield Senior High in 1985. Following high school, he attended the University of Michigan where he graduated in 1990. After his graduation, he moved to Chicago where he performed at several prestigious theaters including Chicago Dramatists Workshop, The Goodman Theatre, and Victory Gardens Theater. In 1995, he was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Revue for “The Colored Museum” at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. His first television appearance was breakdancing on the dance contest show Dance Fever when he was nineteen.
Rick joined the cast of Supernatural as a guest star in its sixth season as the Alpha Vampire. He first appeared in episode six, “Live Free or Twihard”, as brief flashes in the minds of his subordinate vampires as he commands them to recruit more vampires for his army. In episode seven, “Family Matters”, he is captured by Samuel Campbell, Dean and Sam’s maternal grandfather, and his group of hunters. Using dead man’s blood to subdue him, they attempt to interrogate him but find him resistant to pain. He reveals that Samuel has been torturing him for information about purgatory and where it is located. He escapes, but is taken away by demons on Crowley’s orders. In the seventh season, the Alpha Vampire returns in episode twenty-two, “There Will Be Blood”, when Sam and Dean learn from Crowley that they will need an Alpha’s blood in order to make a weapon for killing leviathans. With the help of Emily, the Alpha’s “special girl”, they locate his hideaway. They tell him that they are there for his blood and point out that Dick betrayed him by making his food addictive poisonous to vampires. They ask him to willingly give them his blood. After hearing from Edgar that this is true and almost succumbing to the leviathan, he is saved by Sam and Dean. Because they saved his life and because they now have an equal enemy in Dick, he willingly gives them a glass of his blood and promise to “see you next season”.
Since the Alpha Vampire was not killed off of the show (not that a small thing like that matters on Supernatural), it’s entirely possible that its viewers will be seeing Rick Worthy back on their television screens again in a future season. There is a 
