Biography
Jim Beaver, also credited as James Norman Beaver Jr., is an American actor, writer and film historian. He is best known for his role as the prospector Whitney Ellsworth in the HBO series Deadwood (2004–2006), for which he received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as part of the ensemble cast.
Beaver has appeared in recurring roles including Bobby Singer in Supernatural (2005–2020), Lawson in Breaking Bad (2008–2013) and Better Call Saul (2015–2022), and Robert A. Singer in The Boys (2019–). His other film credits include Crimson Peak (2015) and Magnolia (1999). He served in the US Marine Corps in Vietnam before beginning his acting career on stage in the early 1970s.
Beaver published the memoir Life's That Way in 2009.
