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 Adam has taken on many roles in Canadian films and TV series, and his lead role in the Canadian TV series Moose TV will only increase our familiarity with him. However, it was his starring role opposite Academy Award winning actor Nicolas Cage in John Woo's Hollywood action blockbuster Windtalkers that made a name for him around the world.
The charming and gregarious actor has even been included in Vanity Fair's exclusive and notorious Hollywood issue, a sure sign that he's arrived in LA to stay. A fact confirmed by his recent role in Flags of Our Fathers, a film directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg.
Windtalkers was a landmark role for Beach, and for the representation of Native Americans in Hollywood films. Beach, who won a FAITA award for Windtalkers, has worked on numerous celebrated films including Smoke Signals, which won numerous awards including the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998.
A Saulteaux from Manitoba, Canada, Adam Beach was born in 1972 on the Dog Creek Indian Reserve. He faced many hardships as a young man. Not the least being the death of his pregnant mother at the hands of a drunk driver, and then his father's accidental death by drowning mere months later, which left him and his two younger brothers orphans at the tender age of 8 years old. Adopted by relatives in Winnipeg, Beach found the usual teenage boy's means to vent his anger, angst and confusion towards a lonely and racist world where he was sometimes barred from his friends' homes merely for being Indian.
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