Kirk Cameron

Kirk Cameron is an American actor, director, and Christian evangelist. While his role in the sitcom Growing Pains garnered mainstream notoriety, Cameron has since starred in major Christian-themed films, including Left Behind: The Movie and 2008's Fireproof.

Kirk Cameron was a teen idol in the 80s. His role as Mike Seaver in the sitcom Growing Pains catapulted him to stardom. He played a girl crazy teenager who was always getting into some kind of trouble.

Cameron's first starring role was in the television series Two Marriages. In 1985 he was cast in the role of Mike Seaver in Growing Pains, which he was a part of until 1992. Cameron also stars in the Christian based movies Left Behind: The Movie, Left Behind II: Tribulation Force, and Left Behind: World at War playing Buck Williams. He works with Cloud Ten Pictures, which is a company that produces Christian based movies. He has the ministry The Way of the Master with Ray Comfort, which features a television show, a live daily radio show, and a multimedia website. The ministry trains Christians into evangelism.

Cameron and his wife Chelsea Noble have been married since 20 July 1991. The couple met on the set of Growing Pains. Together they have six children. Jack, Isabella, Anna, and Luke are adopted and Olivia Rose and James Thomas are the couple's biological children.

1. "I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sisters."
2. "The Hollywood lifestyle was just overwhelming. A party here, an interview there, magazine and modeling shoots daily, your face everywhere and girls throwing themselves at you. As great as it felt at the time, I still felt something missing, and that I needed to change."
3. "To say that the banana happened by accident is even more unintelligent than to say that no one designed the Coca Cola can."
4. "The Hollywood industry is a twisted place to grow up. It was bad when I was there, but even more so now."Boston Herald: Kirk Cameron talks faith, marriage and movies (September 23, 2008)

• October 12, 1970: Born in Panorama City, California

• 1985: Cast as Mike Seaver on Growing Pains

• 1987: Stars with Dudley Moore in Like Father Like Son

• 1990: Converts to Evangelical Christianity

• 1991: Marries Growing Pains co-star Chelsea Noble

• 2000: Stars in first film adaptation of the Left Behind novels

• December, 2003: Forms media ministry The Way of the Master

• 2008: Fireproof