He is a five-time Daytime Emmy Award nominee, winning once in 2002 for his role as Lucky Spencer in the soap opera General Hospital (2000–2003).

Jacob Wayne Young was born in Renton, Washington, the youngest child of Rhonda and Michael Young, Sr.[1] and was raised in Loveland, Colorado,[2] and Roy, Washington, moving to San Diego, California at age seventeen with his mother.

Young portrayed Rick Forrester on the CBS soap The Bold and the Beautiful from December 31, 1997, to September 15, 1999.

[3] In 2002, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Lucky Spencer on General Hospital Young portrayed JR Chandler on All My Children from October 1, 2003 to September 23, 2011.

[8] He additionally guest-starred on ABC's Hope & Faith and, from May 2006 through August 20, 2006, starred in Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, in the role of Lumiere.