Jim Beaver is an actor, playwright, and film historian. Best known as Ellsworth on HBO’s Emmy-award winning series Deadwood and as Bobby Singer on Supernatural , he has also starred in such series as Harper’s Island , Justified , Breaking Bad , and Thunder Alley and appeared in nearly forty motion pictures. He lives with his daughter Madeline in Los Angeles.
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Jim and Cecily appeared to have it all: Cecily was a successful casting director ( 3rd Rock from the Sun , That 70s Show ); Jim was a regular on HBO’s Deadwood . Then, Cecily, a young non-smoker, discovered she had advanced lung cancer. Soon Jim was a widower and a single dad.