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Evan Adams

Actor

Evan Adams

Born November 15, 196612 films

Evan Adams (born November 15, 1966) is a Coast Salish actor & physician from the Tla’amin First Nation near Powell River, BC, Canada. He is best known for his role as Thomas Builds-The-Fire in Smoke Signals (1999). Aside from his career in the arts, Evan has completed a Medical Doctorate from the University of Calgary in 2002.

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Smoke Signals posterFirst watchSmoke Signals19986.8as Thomas Builds-the-FireYoung Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear.View film

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Filmography

12 films as actor
  1. 2019Indian Road TripCasper Manywords
  2. 2018Kayak to KlemtuDave
  3. 2014Rez Carz(voice)
  4. 2009The ThawProfessor Anderson
  5. 2006Black ChristmasDoctor
  6. 2005Lenny The Wonder DogRazel
  7. 2002The Business of FancydancingSeymour Polatkin
  8. 1999Lakota MoonThrows it Down
  9. 1998Smoke SignalsThomas Builds-the-Fire
  10. 1992Lost in the Barrens II: The Curse of the Viking GraveAwasis
  11. 1990Lost in the BarrensAwasis
  12. 1986Toby McTeagueJacob