Michael Anthony Beach was born on October 30, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an American actor.

Though he appeared on television a lot in the late '80s, his film breakthrough came in Carl Franklin's 1991 crime thriller One False Move. He played the ex-con Pluto opposite Billy Bob Thornton. In 1993, he was a part of the ensemble cast in Robert Altman's award-winning feature Short Cuts.

After playing opposite Laurence Fishburne in the crime thriller Bad Company (1995), Beach went on to play several unfaithful husbands. He also starred in Waiting to Exhale (1995), Soul Food (1997), and TV series ER. Fellow ER cast member Eriq La Salle cast Beach in his sports drama Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996) for HBO.

Back on television, Beach earned an Image Award for his role of Monte 'Doc' Parker on the NBC dramatic series Third Watch. In 2002, he re-teamed with actor/director La Salle for the lead role of Dr. Ty Adams in the thriller Crazy as Hell.

He has played the nephew to Cicely Tyson's Scrooge in "Ms. Scrooge," a cable network's movie update of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol," and starred opposite Lela Rochon in the TV movie "The Ruby Bridges Story," a true depiction of desegregation in public schools. He will appear in the film "Asunder" with Blair Underwood and TV Series "Stargate: Atlantis" (2007-2008)

Beach resides in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, actress Elisha Wilson.

Filmography

• First Sunday (2008)
• Play Dead (2008)
• Hell Ride (2008)
• "Stargate: Atlantis" (4 episodes, 2007-2008)
• "Criminal Minds" (1 episode, 2007)
• "Shark" (1 episode, 2007)
• "Without a Trace" (1 episode, 2006)
• "Brothers & Sisters" (2 episodes, 2006)
• Like Mike 2: Streetball (2006)
• Lenexa, 1 Mile (2006)
• "Justice League" (5 episodes, 2004-2006)
• "Third Watch" (104 episodes, 1999-2005)
• "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1 episode, 2004)
• Critical Assembly (2003)
• Crazy as Hell (2002)
• Spawn 3: Ultimate Battle (1999)
• Made Men (1999)
• "Spawn" (2 episodes, 1999)
• Dr. Hugo (1998)
• Johnny Skidmarks (1998)
• Ruby Bridges (1998)
• A Room Without Doors (1998)
• Asunder (1998)
• "ER" (18 episodes, 1995-1997)
• Ms. Scrooge (1997)
• Soul Food (1997)
• Casualties (1997)
• Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)
• A Family Thing (1996)
• Waiting to Exhale (1995)
• "Touched by an Angel" (1 episode, 1995)
• White Man's Burden (1995)
• "Law & Order" (1 episode, 1995)
• Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995)
• Bad Company (1995)
• "Under Suspicion" (1994)
• "NYPD Blue" (2 episodes, 1994)
• Midnight Run for Your Life (1994)
• Knight Rider 2010 (1994)
• "Walker, Texas Ranger" (1 episode, 1993)
• Final Appeal (1993)
• True Romance (1993)
• Short Cuts (1993)
• The Hit List (1993)
• Evening Class (1993)
• One False Move (1992)
• Another Round (1992)
• "Quantum Leap" (1 episode, 1991)
• Late for Dinner (1991)
• Guilty as Charged (1991)
• "Gabriel's Fire" (1 episode, 1991)
• Fire: Trapped on the 37th Floor (1991)
• "Veronica Clare" (1 episode, 1991)
• Dangerous Passion (1990)
• Internal Affairs (1990)
• Cadence (1990)
• The Abyss (1989)
• Lean on Me (1989)
• "ABC Afterschool Specials" (1 episode, 1989)
• Open Admissions (1988)
• In a Shallow Grave (1988)
• Weekend War (1988)
• "The Street" (1988)
• Suspect (1987)
• End of the Line (1987)
• Streets of Gold (1986)
• Vengeance: The Story of Tony Cimo (1986)