Jeffrey Dean Morgan Video Interview On ‘The Possession’

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 46, has been acting up a storm lately, with leading roles on Starz’s Magic City, in the remake of Red Dawn, and his latest film, The Possession. Also starring Kyra Sedgwick and Natasha Calis, The Possession, which opened No. 1 at the box office on Labor Day Weekend 2012, earned over $17 million.

Morgan didn’t start out with aspirations of becoming an actor. Born in Seattle, Wash., he played basketball throughout high school and college and worked as a graphic artist. He came out to Los Angeles with a friend in the early 1990s and found acting work on shows such as ER, The Practice and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. His big break came in 2005 when he appeared on three popular shows: Supernatural as patriarch John Winchester, Weeds as Judah Botwin, and perhaps most memorably, Grey’s Anatomy as heart patient and Izzie Stevens’ (Katherine Heigl) love interest, Denny Duquette.

From television, Morgan went to the big screen, appearing with Hilary Swank in 2007’s P.S. I Love You, starring as The Comedian in 2009’s Watchmen, and in 2010, co-starring with Idris Elba, Zoe Saldana and Chris Evans in The Losers.

Having achieved success in front of the camera, Morgan would like to get behind the camera. “I want to direct. I think that’s where I’m going — in my head that’s where I’m going in my career. I’m not a control freak, but I want to have more control,” he told Uinterview exclusively. “I like to be able to find a project and hire some writers, but I really want to direct and want to get into an editing room. I think that’s coming up, I hope in the next couple of years.”