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Personal Info

Known For Acting

Known Credits 36

Gender Male

Birthday October 2, 1948 (77 years old)

Place of Birth Evansville, Indiana, USA

Also Known As

• اوری بروکس

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Avery Brooks

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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. After graduating from Oberlin, he moved to New York City to pursue his acting career.

Brooks's first professional acting role was in the play "The Great White Hope" in 1970. He went on to appear in a number of Broadway productions, including "The Wiz" and "A Chorus Line". He also starred in the television miniseries "Roots" in 1977.

In 1993, Brooks was cast as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The series ran for seven seasons, and Brooks's performance as Sisko was critically acclaimed. He won a Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television in 1995.

After Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended, Brooks continued to work in television and film. He starred in the series "Shark" from 2006 to 2008, and he appeared in the films "American History X" and "The Score".

Brooks is also a talented singer and musician. He has released two albums, "Song of My People" and "The Way I Feel". He is also a gifted director, and he has directed a number of theater productions and television episodes.

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. After graduating from Oberlin, he moved to New York City to pursue his acting career.

Brooks's first professional acting role was in the play "The Great White Hope" in 1970. He went on to appear in a number of Broadway productions, including "The Wiz" and "A Chorus Line". He also starred in the television miniseries "Roots" in 1977.

In 1993, Brooks was cast as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The series ran for seven seasons, and Brooks's performance as Sisko was critically acclaimed. He won a Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television in 1995.

After Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended, Brooks continued to work in television and film. He starred in the series "Shark" from 2006 to 2008, and he appeared in the films "American History X" and "The Score".

Brooks is also a talented singer and musician. He has released two albums, "Song of My People" and "The Way I Feel". He is also a gifted director, and he has directed a number of theater productions and television episodes.

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Known For

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  Khoảng Tối Lịch Sử Mỹ

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  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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  15 Minutes

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  Sát Thủ Đường Cùng

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  What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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  The Captains

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  Spenser: For Hire

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  Uncle Tom's Cabin

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  • Movies 28
  • TV Shows 8
• Department
  • Acting 36
  • Directing 1

Acting

2026 Star Trek: Học Viện Starfleet 1 episode as Benjamin Sisko (voice)

2018 What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Self

2016 Mysteries of Ancient China as Self - Presenter

2013 The Captains Close Up 2 episodes as Self

2011 The Captains as Himself

2010 For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots 2 episodes as Self - Narrator

2009 Drain the Ocean as Narrator

2008 God v. Satan: The Final Battle as Himself (Narrator)

2007 Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier as Self

2003 Deep Space Nine: A Bold Beginning as Himself 2003 Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends as Himself

2001 15 Minutes as Leon Jackson

1999 Savage Sun as Narrator (voice)

1998 Khoảng Tối Lịch Sử Mỹ as Sweeney 1998 The Greatest Places as Narrator (voice) 1998 Africa's Elephant Kingdom as Narrator 1998 Sát Thủ Đường Cùng as Paris

1997 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child 1 episode as King Maximus (voice)

1996 Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond as Self 1996 Gargoyles 1 episode as Nokkar (voice)

1995 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior as Benjamin Sisko 1995 Spenser: A Savage Place as Hawk 1995 The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek as Self

1994 Spenser: The Judas Goat as Hawk 1994 Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes as Hawk

1993 Spenser: Ceremony as Hawk 1993 The Ernest Green Story as Rev. Lawson 1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes as Himself 1993 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 173 episodes as Benjamin Sisko

1991 Solomon Northup's Odyssey as Solomon Northup

1989 A Man Called Hawk 13 episodes

1988 Roots: The Gift as Cletus Moyer

1987 Uncle Tom's Cabin as Uncle Tom 1987 Moments without Proper Names as Self

1985 Spenser: For Hire 65 episodes as Hawk 1985 Finnegan Begin Again as Dude on Bus

Directing

1994 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 9 episodes … Director

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