Jim Edwards grew up in Winston-Salem, NC and graduated from North Carolina State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management and Economics. His business career in Tampa, FL included work as a Realtor, Insurance Agent and Stockbroker.

A singer and guitarist since childhood, he has played solo and with rock, country and Christian bands.

His early leading roles include independent films "Your Hand in Mine" playing an oppressed husband who seems to get everything wrong and a loving father of a blind child in "Inheritance".

He did numerous theater productions including community theater and the Spanish Lyric Theater in Tampa. He played a variety of characters in several student films at Full Sail, the University of Central Florida, Ringling and the University of New Orleans and earned his SAG card doing commercials.

He's best known for his role as Cecil Clark, a church deacon and car dealer in "No Vacancy", a touching faith-based true story starring T.C. Stallings, Dean Cain and Sean Young, where he takes on racism, patriotism and faith.