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Kirk Cameron(I)

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Kirk Cameron
David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birthmother unexpectedly reaches out to him, longing to meet the 18-year-old son she's only held once.
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Kirk Thomas Cameron was born in Panorama City, California, to Barbara Cameron (née Barbara Jeanne Bausmith), a homemaker, and Robert Cameron, a teacher. Though his parents initially did not project show business aspirations onto their children, a family friend in the business noted to Barbara that both Kirk and his sister, Candace Cameron Bure, were cute enough that they could easily pick up lucrative work in commercials. After Cameron began appearing in TV ads for "Polaroid", "McDonald's" and "Count Chocula" cereal, he found himself wound up in Hollywood's notorious child-star mill, netting minor cute-kid parts in a handful of TV movies, including a couple of Disney projects and two ABC Afterschool Specials (1972) (1972-95). In 1983, he landed a regular gig, as a precocious kid, in ABC's Two Marriages (1983), a show that remained on the air less than a month. He found a more winning formula in 1985 with Growing Pains (1985), playing the oldest son of a family headed by a psychiatrist (Alan Thicke) and a journalist (Joanna Kerns), one in a sequence of family network sitcoms characterized by with-it parents and mischievous-but-squeaky-clean kids. On the show, Cameron played the incorrigible but dumb "Mike Seaver" and his winning portrayal won over a large number of teen fans. In spite of scathing critical notices, "Growing Pains" ranked among Nielsen's top 20 network shows for its first four seasons, rising to No. 5 in its 1987-88 year. On the heels of his sitcom success, Cameron appeared in his first feature film in 1986, the Robin Williams/Kurt Russell glory-days comedy, The Best of Times (1986).

ABC would pump up Cameron as its "It" boy, and his trademark smirk in coming years would grace covers of a raft of teen magazines. Meanwhile, job offers cropped up to exploit his proverbial 15 minutes; he played the son/father of Dudley Moore in Like Father Like Son (1987), one of Hollywood's periodic flavor-du-jour retreads of the mystical parent/sibling body-switch comedies; netted the starring role in a high-profile Pepsi Super Bowl XXIV commercial; rated top-billing in Listen to Me (1989), an overwrought, widely-panned college drama about debate team wonks arguing against Roe v. Wade; and did a guest-shot, alongside sister Candace, on her ABC sister sitcom, Full House (1987) (1987-1995). Firmly established as the resident star of "Growing Pains", Cameron saw his pay jump to $50,000 a week and his fans sending him some 10,000 letters a week. But his coming-of-age took an unexpected turn, at least for everyone who worked with him. As he would later recall it in his autobiography, "Still Growing", the family of his first girlfriend initially exposed the 17-year-old to evangelical Christianity. Cameron experienced what he would later describe as a "life-changing encounter with Jesus" and declared himself "born again".
BornOctober 12, 1970
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  • Awards
    • 10 wins & 11 nominations

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Kirk Cameron in You Lucky Dog (1998)
Kirk Cameron in You Lucky Dog (1998)
Kirk Cameron in You Lucky Dog (1998)
Kirk Cameron, Alex Kendrick, and Erin Bethea in Fireproof (2008)
Kirk Cameron and Chelsea Noble in Left Behind: The Movie (2000)
Kirk Cameron in Left Behind: The Movie (2000)
Kirk Cameron in Left Behind: The Movie (2000)
Kirk Cameron in Left Behind: The Movie (2000)
Alan Thicke and Kirk Cameron in Growing Pains (1985)
Alan Thicke and Kirk Cameron in Growing Pains (1985)
Kirk Cameron and Andrew Koenig in Growing Pains (1985)
Joanna Kerns, Alan Thicke, Kirk Cameron, Tracey Gold, and Jeremy Miller in Growing Pains (1985)

Known for:

Growing Pains (1985)
Growing Pains
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TV Series
  • Mike Seaver
Kirk Cameron in Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas (2014)
Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
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  • Kirk
  • 2014
Fireproof (2008)
Fireproof
6.4
  • Caleb Holt
  • 2008
Kirk Cameron in Left Behind: The Movie (2000)
Left Behind: The Movie
4.3
  • Buck Williams
  • 2000

Credits

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Actor

  • Kirk Cameron in Takeaways with Kirk Cameron (2021)
    Takeaways with Kirk Cameron
    • Host
    • TV Series
    • 2022–2023
  • Lifemark (2022)
    Lifemark
    • Jimmy Colton
    • 2022
  • Andrea Barber, Candace Cameron Bure, and Jodie Sweetin in Fuller House (2016)
    Fuller House
    • Kirk Cameron
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Extraordinary (2017)
    Extraordinary
    • Barry
    • 2017
  • Kirk Cameron and Tracy Campbell in Come Home (2017)
    Come Home
    • Father
    • Short
    • 2017
  • Kirk Cameron in Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas (2014)
    Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
    • Kirk
    • 2014
  • Mercy Rule (2014)
    Mercy Rule
    • John Miller
    • Video
    • 2014
  • Unstoppable (2013)
    Unstoppable
    • Kirk Cameron
    • 2013
  • Are You a Good Person? (2010)
    Are You a Good Person?
    • Mr. Nice Guy (voice)
    • Short
    • 2010
  • Fireproof (2008)
    Fireproof
    • Caleb Holt
    • 2008
  • Louis Gossett Jr. and Kirk Cameron in Left Behind III: World at War (2005)
    Left Behind III: World at War
    • Buck Williams
    • 2005
  • Joanna Kerns, Alan Thicke, Kirk Cameron, Tracey Gold, Ashley Johnson, and Jeremy Miller in Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers (2004)
    Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers
    • Mike Seaver
    • TV Movie
    • 2004
  • Kirk Cameron in Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002)
    Left Behind II: Tribulation Force
    • Buck Williams
    • 2002
  • Kathleen Quinlan, Julie Warner, Tony Danza, Christopher McDonald, and Dixie Carter in Family Law (1999)
    Family Law
    • Mitchell Stark
    • TV Series
    • 2002
  • The Miracle of the Cards (2001)
    The Miracle of the Cards
    • Josh
    • TV Movie
    • 2001

Writer

  • Kirk Cameron in Kirk Cameron: Connect (2018)
    Kirk Cameron: Connect
    • Writer
    • 2018
  • Unstoppable (2013)
    Unstoppable
    • Writer
    • 2013
  • The Way of the Master (2003)
    The Way of the Master
    • writer
    • TV Series
    • 2003

Producer

  • Kirk Cameron in Kirk Cameron: Connect (2018)
    Kirk Cameron: Connect
    • producer
    • 2018
  • Kirk Cameron in Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas (2014)
    Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
    • executive producer
    • 2014
  • Monumental: Restoring America as the Land of Liberty (2014)
    Monumental: Restoring America as the Land of Liberty
    • producer
    • TV Series
    • 2014
  • Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure (2012)
    Monumental: In Search of America's National Treasure
    • producer
    • 2012

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Tough Room Preview
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Tough Room Preview
Like Father Like Son
Trailer 1:28
Like Father Like Son
Mercy Rule
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Mercy Rule
Saving Christmas
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Saving Christmas
Fireproof
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Fireproof
Fireproof
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Fireproof

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
  • Born
    • October 12, 1970
    • Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Spouse
    • Chelsea NobleJuly 20, 1991 - present (6 children)
  • Children
      Jack Cameron
  • Parents
      Robert Cameron
  • Relatives
      Bridgette Cameron(Sibling)
  • Other works
    TV commercial: Pepsi-Cola.
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Print Biography
    • 2 Portrayals
    • 5 Articles
    • 2 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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    Received no financial compensation whatsoever for acting in Fireproof (2008), and does not accept any royalties from the film.
  • Quotes
    "I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister." - About working on Growing Pains (1985).
  • Salaries
      Listen to Me
      (1989)
      $1,000,000

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