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Avery Brooks

Actor

Avery Brooks

Acting
1998 — present · 3 films
Born
2 October 1948 · age 77
From
Evansville, Indiana, USA

Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) 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 was born in Evansville, Indiana, and raised in Gary, Indiana. He attended Oberlin College, where he studied music and theater.

Career Signature

How Avery Brooks’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they acted in.