Playboy On The Scene

March, 2007

Actor Adam Beach's life story proves that though you may be down, you're never outWhen I started acting," says 34-year-old Adam Beach, "no­body believed in me. Everyone said, Yeah, whatever. You're going to quit in two or three years.1" One can under­stand the skepticism. Orphaned at the age of eight on an Indian res­ervation near Winnipeg (mother killed by a drunk driver, father drowned while drunk shortly after), Beach faced formidable odds. Now, with 50 credits to his name, the...