# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-beaver
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:38:45.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-beaver"
name: "Jim Beaver"
slug: "jim-beaver"
description: "James Norman Beaver Jr. is an American actor, writer, and film historian. He portrayed Bobby Singer in Supernatural. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting, Sheriff Shelby Parlow on the FX series Justified, and Robert \"Dakota Bob\" Singer on the Amazon Prime Video series The Boys. He appeared in starring roles in two films directed by Guillermo del Toro, Crimson Peak and Nightmare Alley. His memoir Life's That Way was published in April 2009."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jim_Beaver_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-08-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.58
  momentum:             1.181214556438973
  historical:           22.812496
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/jumblejim"
    handle:    "jumblejim"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/jumblejimstagram/"
    handle:    "jumblejimstagram"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064769/"
    handle:    "nm0064769"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lifesthatway.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump