1. Adam Beach was born on November 11,1972 and is a Canadian actor.
28 Facts About Adam Beach
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Adam Beach performed as Squanto in Disney's historical drama film Squanto: A Warrior's Tale.
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Adam Beach is Saulteaux Anishinaabe and has some Icelandic roots through his great-grandmother.
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Eight weeks after his mother's death, the family discovered their father Dennis Adam Beach had drowned near the community.
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Adam Beach attended a drama class at Gordon Bell High School.
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Adam Beach began performing in local theatre productions and eventually dropped out of school to take a lead role at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People.
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Adam Beach saw acting as a catharsis and turned to theater as a venue to express his feelings and tell his own personal stories.
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At age 18, Adam Beach won a small role in the miniseries Lost in the Barrens, based on the Farley Mowat novel.
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Shortly afterwards, Adam Beach was cast as a regular on the television shows North of 60 and The Rez.
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Adam Beach took a small role in Disney's Mystery, Alaska in 1999 and in 2000 accepted a role in the thriller, The Last Stop.
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Adam Beach appeared in Helen Lee's The Art of Woo and the 2001 hit Joe Dirt as Kickin' Wing, a Native American fireworks salesman.
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In 2002, Windtalkers, starring Adam Beach, was released in theatres; it was about Navajo codetalkers working with the US Marines during World War II.
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Adam Beach used this language in his next project, Skinwalkers, based on a novel by Tony Hillerman and directed by Chris Eyre, who had given him his breakout role in Smoke Signals.
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Between large-scale projects, Adam Beach made small television appearances on such shows as JAG and Third Watch.
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Adam Beach made a guest appearance in the hit show The Dead Zone as a Native shaman.
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In 2006, Adam Beach portrayed Ira Hayes in Clint Eastwood's feature film Flags of Our Fathers.
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The movie won two Academy Award nominations and Adam Beach was nominated for multiple Best Supporting Actor honors.
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In 2006, Adam Beach ran as a candidate to lead his Lake Manitoba First Nation; he was not successful but said he will try again.
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In 2007, Adam Beach starred in HBO Films' adaptation of Dee Brown's history, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
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Adam Beach explores and expresses the changing understanding of Aboriginal-US relations during the period leading up to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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Adam Beach later stated he grew disillusioned with the strictly procedural nature of the show and opted to leave after the finish of the ninth season.
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On February 10,2010, it was announced that Adam Beach will portray Tommy Prince, the Canadian war hero, in an upcoming movie about his life.
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Also in 2011, Adam Beach returned to Canada to star in the TV series Arctic Air, which premiered on January 12,2012.
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In 2015, Adam Beach appeared on several episodes of Backstrom as Sheriff Jesse Rocha.
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In 2022 Adam Beach was selected as host of the Canadian chainsaw carving competition show A Cut Above.
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Adam Beach has been married three times and has three children.
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Adam Beach has two sons with his first wife, Meredith Porter.
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Adam Beach did not have children with his second wife, Tara Mason.