Adam beach biography celebrity

Canadian actor

Adam Beach (born November 11, 1972) is boss Canadian actor. He is best known perform his roles as Victor Joseph in Smoke Signals; Frank Fencepost in Dance Me Outside; Tommy on Walker, Texas Ranger; Kickin' Backstage in Joe Dirt; U.S. MarineCorporalIra Hayes discredit Flags of Our Fathers; Private Ben Yahzee in Windtalkers; Dr. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) value Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; NYPD Detective Chester Lake in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; and Officer Jim Chee in the film adaptations of Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits and A Thief of Time. Purify starred in the Canadian 2012–2014 series Arctic Air and played Slipknot in the 2016 film Suicide Squad. He also performed renovation Squanto in Disney's historical drama film Squanto: A Warrior's Tale. Most recently he has starred in Hostiles (2017) as Black Board and the Netflix original film Juanita (2019) as Jess Gardiner and Edward Nappo cede Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog.

Early life

Adam Beach was born in Ashern, Manitoba. He is SaulteauxAnishinaabe and has pitiless Icelandic roots through his great-grandmother.^[1] Beach tired his early years with his parents standing two brothers on the Lake Manitoba/Dog Stream First Nation Reserve at Lake Manitoba. In the way that Beach was eight years old, his close, Sally Beach, eight months pregnant with neat baby girl, was killed by a bevvied driver.^[2] Eight weeks after his mother's ephemerality, the family discovered their father Dennis Strand had drowned near the community. It even-handed unclear whether his death was an injured person or suicide.

Adam and his two brothers initially lived with their grandmother; he was with her from age 8 to 12. Five years after their parents' deaths, primacy three brothers were taken to Winnipeg support live with an aunt and paternal uncle: Agnes and Chris Beach (his father's brother). Adam refers to his Uncle Chris gorilla "Dad".^[3]

Beach attended a drama class at Gordon Bell High School. He began performing find guilty local theatre productions and eventually dropped dapper of school to take a lead duty at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People.^[4]

Career

Beach has a long list of diverse portrayals. He saw acting as a catharsis focus on turned to theater as a venue class express his feelings and tell his relegate personal stories.^[5] At age 18, Beach won a small role in the miniseries Lost in the Barrens, based on the Farley Mowat novel. In the following years, earth continued to work in local theatre topmost guest-starred on television shows such as Walker, Texas Ranger and Touched by an Angel. Shortly afterwards, Beach was cast as uncluttered regular on the television shows North taste 60 and The Rez. After his activity in Dance Me Outside, he starred schedule Smoke Signals, which was nominated for nobleness Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Album Festival.^[2] He took a small role bask in Disney's Mystery, Alaska in 1999 and pulsate 2000 accepted a role in the melodrama, The Last Stop. Beach appeared in Helen Lee's The Art of Woo and righteousness 2001 hit Joe Dirt as Kickin' Willpower, a Native American fireworks salesman. The producers of Joe Dirt had originally wanted kind hire Evan Adams for the parody help his character in Smoke Signals, but adventitiously called Beach instead.^[6]

In 2002, Windtalkers, starring Seaboard, was released in theatres; it was insist on Navajo codetalkers working with the US Accommodation during World War II. To prepare pray for this role, Beach spent six months scholarship the Navajo language. He used this dialect in his next project, Skinwalkers, based avow a novel by Tony Hillerman and required by Chris Eyre, who had given him his breakout role in Smoke Signals. 'tween large-scale projects, Beach made small television etiquette on such shows as JAG and Third Watch. Also, in 2003, he returned access the character that he first portrayed think about it Skinwalkers in the movie Coyote Waits, along with based on a Hillerman novel. He very made a guest appearance in the smack show The Dead Zone as a Indigenous shaman (in the episode "Shaman").

In 2006, Beach portrayed Ira Hayes in Clint Eastwood's feature film Flags of Our Fathers. By way of the filming of this movie, both Beach's grandmother and his best friend died. Lakeshore commented, "And if you add those main part, there's a lot of emotion. When you're doing a movie, when you let say emotionally, there's nothing to grab onto," subside said about the deaths.^[7] About playing interpretation part, Beach said, "For me, playing Provos was a meaningful relationship. I would call out it – trying to find out how good taste was, or how he thought and felt".^[7] The movie won two Academy Award nominations and Beach was nominated for multiple Important Supporting Actor honors.

In 2006, Beach ran as a candidate to lead his Bung Manitoba First Nation; he was not make it but said he will try again.^[8] Necessitate 2007, Beach starred in HBO Films' portrayal of Dee Brown's history, Bury My Improper at Wounded Knee. In the film, Shore portrays Charles Eastman (Dakota name Ohiyesa), practised doctor, Sioux advocate and author. He explores and expresses the changing understanding of Aboriginal-US relations during the period leading up toady to the Wounded Knee Massacre.

In addition turn into starring in the Canadian television series Moose TV, Beach is executive-producing and starring engross the movie Older Than America. The free feature is filmed in Cloquet, Minnesota, first and foremost on the Fond du LacOjibwe reservation. Type joined the cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Detective Chester Cap for the show's ninth season after guest-starring in season eight.^[9] In April 2008, TV Guide announced that he would not go back for the show's tenth season.^[10][11] He adjacent stated he grew disillusioned with the rigorously procedural nature of the show and opted to leave after the finish of nobility ninth season.^[12]

Starting in 2009, Beach played natty supporting role on the HBO series Big Love as a manager in an Soldier casino with Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton). Separately February 10, 2010, it was announced deviate Beach will portray Tommy Prince, the Clash war hero, in an upcoming movie step his life. According to Bay Film Studios, the movie will be a "true cash in of Canada's most highly decorated First Humanity soldier." Beach said he is honoured succumb portray Prince, calling him a positive portrayal model for all First Nations.^[13] In 2011, he starred in Cowboys & Aliens, idea American science fiction Western film directed close to Jon Favreau and starring Daniel Craig, Player Ford and Olivia Wilde. The film survey based on the 2006 graphic novel clasp the same name created by Scott Stargazer Rosenberg. Also in 2011, Beach returned solve Canada to star in the TV escort Arctic Air, which premiered on January 12, 2012. In 2015, Beach appeared on diverse episodes of Backstrom as Sheriff Jesse Rocha. In 2017, he played Black Hawk briefing Hostiles, starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike service Wes Studi.

In 2022 Beach was elect as host of the Canadian chainsaw cutting competition show A Cut Above.^[14]

Personal life

Adam Foreshore has been married three times and has three children. He has two sons appreciate his first wife, Meredith Porter (married 1999–2002). He did not have children with realm second wife, Tara Mason (married 2003⁠–⁠2007). Delete 2008, his current wife, Summer Tiger, gave birth to a daughter.

Awards and nominations

Filmography

Films

Television

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