Bruce Campbell

Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor, producer, writer and director.
He may be best-known for his starring role as Ash in the Evil Dead trilogy of horror/slapstick movies. He is currently starring as Sam Axe in Burn Notice on the USA Network.
Campbell was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, the son of Joanne Louise (née Pickens), a homemaker, and Charles Newton Campbell, an amateur actor and traveling billboard inspector. Bruce Campbell is of Irish and Scottish ancestry. He has an older brother, Don, and an older half-brother, Michael.
Bruce Campbell began acting as a teenager and soon began making small Super 8 movies with friends. After meeting Sam Raimi in Wylie E. Groves High School, the two became very good friends and started making movies together. Campbell would go on to attend Western Michigan University while he continued to work on his acting career. Campbell and Raimi collaborated on a 30-minute Super 8 version of the first Evil Dead film, titled Within the Woods, which was initially used to attract investors.
Campbell's first wife (from 1983 to 1989) was Christine Deveau; they had two children, Rebecca and Andy. Bruce Campbell currently lives in