ACTOR

Adam Beach

1972 - Today

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Adam Beach (born November 11, 1972) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Victor Joseph in Smoke Signals; Frank Fencepost in Dance Me Outside; Tommy on Walker, Texas Ranger; Kickin' Wing in Joe Dirt; U.S. Marine Corporal Ira Hayes in Flags of Our Fathers; Private Ben Yahzee in Windtalkers; Dr. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) in 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adam Beach has received more than 4,228,526 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Beach is the 8,914th most popular actor (down from 6,699th in 2019), the 768th most popular biography from Canada (down from 572nd in 2019) and the 242nd most popular Canadian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Adam Beaches by language

Over the past year Adam Beach has had the most page views in the with 447,078 views, followed by German (31,960), and Spanish (24,534). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbo-Croatian (50.51%), Afrikaans (45.11%), and Dutch (36.78%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Adam Beach ranks 8,914 out of 13,578. Before him are Verónica Echegui, Patricia Kalember, Floriana Lima, Jeong Yu-mi, Tamzin Merchant, and Masami Nagasawa. After him are Tom Burke, Paul Gross, Colin Morgan, Tobias Santelmann, Dorothy Dell, and Amy Aquino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1972, Adam Beach ranks 505. Before him are Nocturno Culto, Eyal Berkovic, Terry Balsamo, Naoko Takahashi, Phil O'Donnell, and Julie Plec. After him are Derek Mears, Claudia Poll, Mohammad Rasoulof, Roberto Palacios, Rain Phoenix, and Martin Brodeur.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Adam Beach ranks 768 out of 1,622. Before him are Steve Bauer (1959), Art Ross (1885), Wendy Freedman (1957), Sophie Grégoire Trudeau (1975), Romeo Rivers (1907), and Pete Desjardins (1907). After him are Paul Gross (1959), Élie Blanchard (1881), Aileen Meagher (1910), John Kapelos (1956), Brett Hull (1964), and Bob Houbregs (1932).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Adam Beach ranks 242. Before him are Henry Lau (1989), Jeremy Ratchford (1965), John Kricfalusi (1955), Tom Green (1971), Eric Johnson (1979), and Lindy Booth (1979). After him are Paul Gross (1959), John Kapelos (1956), Peter New (1971), Christina Cox (1971), Dylan Neal (1969), and Lisa Jakub (1978).

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Television and Movie Roles

Windtalkers
Private Ben Yahzee
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
Jun 14o 20026.3 / 10
Suicide Squad
Christopher Weiss / Slipknot
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.
Aug 3o 20165.91 / 10
Cowboys & Aliens
Nat Colorado
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
Jul 29o 20115.593 / 10