Danneel Ackles (born March 18, 1979) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Shannon McBain on One Life to Live and Rachel Gatina on One Tree Hill. She is the wife of Jensen Ackles, who is best known as portraying Dean Winchester in Supernatural and Soldier Boy in Amazon Prime Video's The Boys. She has three children with Jensen: JJ (age 12), Zeppelin (age 9) and Arrow Ackles (age 9).