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Avery Brooks

American actor and director

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Born: October 2, 1948
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Birthplace: Evansville
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Citizenship: United States
Occupation: actor
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, film director
, opera singer
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Education: Rutgers University
, Oberlin College
, Indiana University
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Employer: Rutgers University
, Case Western Reserve University
Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Overview

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Avery Franklin Brooks is an 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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Afterimage(1998)
Shadows and Symbols(1998)
Image in the Sand(1998)
The Sound of Her Voice(1998)
Time's Orphan(1998)
Profit and Lace(1998)
Valiant(1998)
The Reckoning(1998)
His Way(1998)
In the Pale Moonlight(1998)
Inquisition(1998)
Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night(1998)
Change of Heart(1998)
Honor Among Thieves(1998)
One Little Ship(1998)
Far Beyond the Stars(1998)
Who Mourns for Morn?(1998)
Waltz(1998)
The Big Hit(1998)
American History X(1998)
The Magnificent Ferengi(1997)
Statistical Probabilities(1997)
Resurrection(1997)
You Are Cordially Invited(1997)
Sacrifice of Angels(1997)
Favor the Bold(1997)
Behind the Lines(1997)
Sons and Daughters(1997)
Rocks and Shoals(1997)
A Time to Stand(1997)
Call to Arms(1997)
In the Cards(1997)
Empok Nor(1997)
Blaze of Glory(1997)
Children of Time(1997)
Soldiers of the Empire(1997)
Ferengi Love Songs(1997)
A Simple Investigation(1997)
Doctor Bashir, I Presume?(1997)
By Inferno's Light(1997)
In Purgatory's Shadow(1997)
The Begotten(1997)
The Darkness and the Light(1997)
Rapture(1996)
The Ascent(1996)
Things Past(1996)
Let He Who Is Without Sin...(1996)
Trials and Tribble-ations(1996)
The Assignment(1996)
…Nor the Battle to the Strong(1996)
Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places(1996)
The Ship(1996)
Apocalypse Rising(1996)
To the Death(1996)
The Muse(1996)
Shattered Mirror(1996)
Rules of Engagement(1996)
Accession(1996)
Sons of Mogh(1996)
Return to Grace(1996)
Homefront(1996)
Our Man Bashir(1995)
The Sword of Kahless(1995)
Little Green Men(1995)
Hippocratic Oath(1995)
The Visitor(1995)
The Way of the Warrior, Part 2(1995)
The Way of the Warrior, Part 1(1995)
The Way of the Warrior(1995)
Shakaar(1995)
Family Business(1995)
The Die Is Cast(1995)
Improbable Cause(1995)
Through the Looking Glass(1995)
Distant Voices(1995)
Visionary(1995)
Prophet Motive(1995)
Heart of Stone(1995)
Life Support(1995)
Past Tense, Part I(1995)
Fascination(1994)
Defiant(1994)
Civil Defense(1994)
The Abandoned(1994)
Second Skin(1994)
Equilibrium(1994)
The House of Quark(1994)
The Search: Part 2(1994)
The Search: Part 1(1994)
The Search(1994)
The Jem'Hadar(1994)
Tribunal(1994)
Crossover(1994)
The Wire(1994)
The Maquis, Part II(1994)
Blood Oath(1994)
Profit and Loss(1994)
Shadowplay(1994)
Paradise(1994)
Armageddon Game(1994)
The Alternate(1994)
Rivals(1994)
Sanctuary(1993)
Necessary Evil(1993)
Melora(1993)
Cardassians(1993)
Invasive Procedures(1993)
The Siege(1993)
The Homecoming(1993)
In the Hands of the Prophets(1993)
Duet(1993)
Dramatis Personae(1993)
If Wishes Were Horses(1993)
Progress(1993)
Battle Lines(1993)
Vortex(1993)
Move Along Home(1993)
The Passenger(1993)
Q-Less(1993)
Captive Pursuit(1993)
Babel(1993)
A Man Alone(1993)
Past Prologue(1993)
Emissary, Part I(1993)
Emissary(1993)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine(1993)
A Man Called Hawk(1989)
Uncle Tom's Cabin(1987)
Spenser: For Hire(1985)
Solomon Northup's Odyssey(1984)
Star Trek: Captain's Chair

Directed

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Performed

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Benjamin Siskofictional character from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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Sex or gender: male
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Family name: Brooks
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Given name: Avery
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Instrument: piano
voice
Name in kana: エイヴァリー・ブルックス
Genre: jazz
Residence: Princeton
Start of work period: 1984
Native language: English
Writing language: English

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