Jim Beaver is an American stage, film, and television actor, playwright, screenwriter, and film historian, best known as Bobby Singer on CW's Supernatural. Other television credits include Sheriff Shelby Parlow on FX’s Justified, Whitney Ellsworth on HBO’s Deadwood, Father Timothy Jansen on NBC’s Days of Our Lives, and Detective Earl Gaddis on NBC’s Reasonable Doubts.

Film credits include Billy Boy, Crimson Peak, Hollywoodland, The Life of David Gale, Adaptation., Magnolia, Sister Act, Turner & Hooch, Hollywood Shuffle, and Silkwood.

Theatre credits include Jockey Farrell in Verdigris, Buck Lucas in Sidekick, Dickie Muldoon in Lettering, Henry Plantagenet in The Lion in Winter, and Lex Hanson in Mockingbird (Theatre West), Sharpless in Madame Butterfly (Luna Playhouse), Jakob Fleishmann in Turkish Playhouse, Grandma in Sarcasm Anonymous, and Dad in Providence (Secret Rose Theatre), Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (Horseshoe Theatre), and Detective Peterson in Guilt (Blank Theatre).