After graduating from UCLA, he had a WGA internship with the writing staff of “The X Files” (1993). While there, he asked executive producer Frank Spotnitz if he could audition for a guest acting role on the show. Spotnitz “honestly didn’t expect for a second that Jared was going to get the part, because it’s a huge part and he had never even seen him act.” But Poe beat out around 30 other auditioners to play FBI Cadet Rudolph Hayes in the episode “Release” (# 9.17), which first aired May 5, 2002.
(One of the later great X-Files episodes, mainly because of Poe’s wonderful acting. He also plays a small role in Firefly.)
Source: imdb.com
