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Adam Beach
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Character
Chester Lake
Date of birth
November 11, 1972
Place of birth
Ashern, Manitoba, Canada
IMDb profile

Adam Beach is an actor who played Detective Chester Lake in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Beach made guest appearances as Detective Lake in the Season 8 episodes "Outsider" and "Screwed". His first, and only, season as a regular cast member was Season 9.

Beach commented on the show in a 2013 interview which was later reprinted in the May/June 2017 interview he did for Cowboys & Indians Magazine: "When non-Native actors play Native roles, Hollywood is telling the world that we're not good enough to star as our own people. What was so amazing about my role as a Mohawk on [SVU] was that the series creator Dick Wolf acknowledged that New York City was constructed by a lot of Mohawk iron workers, so why not bring in a truthful character who represents that history and is also a well-respected detective."

Beach also starred in the films Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (with Mandy Patinkin) and Suicide Squad (with Viola Davis and David Harbour).

He played Chief E.O. McGinnis on the CW show Nancy Drew (with Kennedy McMann and Martin Donovan).


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