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Avery Brooks

Actor / Film Director / Pianist / Theatre Director | * 10/02/1948 (75) | Evansville, Indiana (United States of America (USA))
Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is a retired American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award–nominated film American History X. Brooks has delivered a variety of other performances to a great deal of acclaim. He has been nominated for a Saturn Award and three NAACP Image Awards. Brooks has also been inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and bestowed with the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre by the Shakespeare Theatre Company. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Drama | History

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Movies with Avery Brooks as Actor(23)

as himself2011 The Captains
as Narrator2009 Drain the Ocean
as Himself (Narrator)2008 God v. Satan: The Final Battle
as Detective Leon Jackson2001 15 Minutes
as Narrator (voice)1998 The Greatest Places
as Sweeney1998 American History X
as Paris1998 The Big Hit
as Hawk1993 Spenser: Ceremony
as Cletus Moyer1988 Roots: The Gift
as Uncle Tom1987 Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Dude on Bus1985 Finnegan Begin Again
as Solomon Northup1984 Solomon Northup's Odyssey

TV Shows/Series with Avery Brooks as Actor(4)

as Benjamin Sisko1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
as Hawk1985 Spenser: For Hire

TV Shows/Series with Avery Brooks as Crew(1)

Directing/Director1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Full Name: Avery Brooks
Born: Saturday, 10/02 1948 (October) in Evansville, Indiana (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 75 years + 179 days)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Rutgers University, Oberlin College, Indiana University, Theodore Roosevelt High School
Employer: Rutgers University, Case Western Reserve University
Other names for Avery Brooks (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"エイヴァリー・ブルックス" (Kana/Japanese)
Avery Brooks frequently works together with these people:
Dennis Madalone (7x, Crew)
Rocky Carroll (6x, Actor)
Jeffrey Combs (5x, Actor)
Robert B. Parker (5x, Crew)
Gordon Parks (5x, Crew)
Michael Piller (5x, Crew)
Colm Meaney (4x, Actor)
Robert Urich (4x, Actor)
Armin Shimerman (4x, Actor)
Rick Berman (4x, Crew)
Tom Morga (4x, Actor)
J.G. Hertzler (4x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:5498, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/12/2024