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Avery Brooks

Acting · Born October 2, 1948 · 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. After graduating from Oberlin, he moved to New York City to pursue his acting career.

Movies with Avery Brooks

• American History X (1998) — Sweeney
• The Big Hit (1998) — Paris
• 15 Minutes (2001) — Leon Jackson
• The Captains (2011) — Self
• What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018) — Self
• The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek (1995) — Self
• Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond (1996) — Self
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987) — Uncle Tom
• The Ernest Green Story (1993) — Rev. Lawson
• Roots: The Gift (1988) — Cletus Moyer
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior (1995) — Benjamin Sisko
• Spenser: A Savage Place (1995) — Hawk

TV shows with Avery Brooks

• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) — Benjamin Sisko
• Spenser: For Hire (1985) — Hawk
• A Man Called Hawk (1989)