Michael Anthony Beach (born October 30, 1963) is an American actor. He has appeared in the films Lean on Me (1989), One False Move (1992), True Romance (1993), Short Cuts (1993), Waiting to Exhale (1995), A Family Thing (1996), Soul Food (1997), Aquaman (2018), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), and Saw X (2023). On television, he played Al Boulet on the NBC medical drama ER from 1995 to 1997. From 1999 to 2005, Beach was a regular cast member in another NBC drama series, Third Watch, as Monte Parker, and as T.O. Cross in FX's Sons of Anarchy. Beach is widely known for portraying characters in multiple crime dramas including S.W.A.T. (2017), Blue Bloods (2010) and The Rookie (2018).
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Early life
Beach was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on October 30, 1963. He attended High School at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham,MA. He graduated from Juilliard School with a degree for the Bachelor of Fine Arts. His mother, Barbara Gomes-Beach, was of Portuguese and African descent.
Career
Beach's big screen debut was in End of the Line in 1987, and he went on to appear opposite Morgan Freeman and Beverly Todd in Lean on Me (1989). Beach also co-starred in films including Internal Affairs, Cadence (both 1990), One False Move (1992) with Cynda Williams, Short Cuts and True Romance (both 1993).
