# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/evan-adams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:05:19.329Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/evan-adams"
name: "Evan Adams"
slug: "evan-adams"
description: "Evan Tlesla Adams is an Indigenous Canadian actor, playwright, and physician. A Coast Salish from the Sliammon First Nation near Powell River, British Columbia, he is best known internationally for his roles in the films of Sherman Alexie, as Thomas Builds-the-Fire in the 1998 film Smoke Signals and Seymour Polatkin in the 2002 film The Business of Fancydancing."
tagline: "Indigenous Canadian actor, playwright, and physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/File-Evan_Adams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966-11-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.87
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.790182666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010963/"
    handle:    "nm0010963"
sources:
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    title: "Evan Adams"
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    title: "Էվան Ադամս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5415310"
    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Evan Adams"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump