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Avery Brooks(I)

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Avery Brooks at an event for Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
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Avery Franklin Brooks was born on October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana to a musically talented family. His maternal grandfather, Samuel Travis Crawford, was a tenor who graduated from Tougaloo College in Mississippi in 1901. Crawford toured the country singing with the Delta Rhythm Boys in the 1930s. Brooks also is musically inclined having played jazz piano, and has performed as the great baritone/actor/scholar Paul Robeson in the play entitled "Paul Robeson". He sang the lead in the A. Anthony Davis opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X", and performed as "Theseus" and "Oberon" in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Washington's Arena Stage. Long affiliated with Rutgers University, he was the institution's first Black MFA graduate. Additionally, he served as the National Black Arts Festival's (NBAF) Artistic Director throughout the 1990s in Atlanta, Georgia. An actor, activist, musician, director, and educator of epic proportions, Brooks was quoted in an interview about his work with NBAF and his performances: "If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given--my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you".
BornOctober 2, 1948
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Avery Brooks and Robert Urich in Spenser: For Hire (1985)
Avery Brooks and Penny Johnson Jerald in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Avery Brooks in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Avery Brooks, LeVar Burton, and Louis Gossett Jr. in Roots: The Gift (1988)
Avery Brooks in A Man Called Hawk (1989)
Avery Brooks in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Avery Brooks and Deborah Lacey in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Avery Brooks and Richard Libertini in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Avery Brooks and Rene Auberjonois in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Avery Brooks and Alexander Siddig in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Avery Brooks, Elliot Durant III, Karlotta Nelson, James Lee Stanley, and Michael Wajacs in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Avery Brooks and Ken Marshall in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)

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Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell, Colm Meaney, Nana Visitor, Avery Brooks, Armin Shimerman, Rene Auberjonois, and Alexander Siddig in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
8.1
TV Series
  • Captain Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko
  • Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko
  • Benny Russell
  • Gabriel Bell
  • Captain Sisko
  • Dr. Noah
  • Joran Dax
Edward Norton in American History X (1998)
American History X
8.5
  • Sweeney
  • 1998
The Big Hit (1998)
The Big Hit
6.0
  • Paris
  • 1998
15 Minutes (2001)
15 Minutes
6.1
  • Detective Leon Jackson
  • 2001

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Actor

  • Star Trek: Legacy (2006)
    Star Trek: Legacy
    • (voice)
  • Bible Mysteries (2004)
    Bible Mysteries
  • God Lives Underwater: Fame
  • 15 Minutes (2001)
    15 Minutes
  • Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell, Colm Meaney, Nana Visitor, Avery Brooks, Armin Shimerman, Rene Auberjonois, and Alexander Siddig in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
    • ...
  • Edward Norton in American History X (1998)
    American History X
  • The Big Hit (1998)
    The Big Hit
  • Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
    Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
    • (voice)
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger (1996)
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger
    • (voice)
  • Gargoyles (1994)
    Gargoyles
    • (voice)
  • Spenser: Ceremony (1993)
    Spenser: A Savage Place
  • Spenser: Ceremony (1993)
    Spenser: The Judas Goat
  • Spenser: Ceremony (1993)
    Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
  • Spenser: Ceremony (1993)
    Spenser: Ceremony
  • The Ernest Green Story (1993)
    The Ernest Green Story

Director

  • Michael Dorn, Terry Farrell, Colm Meaney, Nana Visitor, Avery Brooks, Armin Shimerman, Rene Auberjonois, and Alexander Siddig in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
    Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Music Department

  • William Shatner in The Captains (2011)
    The Captains
  • Avery Brooks in A Man Called Hawk (1989)
    A Man Called Hawk

Videos9

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Trailer 1:27
DVD Trailer
The Captains
Trailer 3:08
The Captains
The Big Hit
Trailer 2:37
The Big Hit
American History X
Trailer 2:25
American History X
Walking With Dinosaurs
Trailer 1:06
Walking With Dinosaurs
The Greatest Places
Trailer 2:34
The Greatest Places
The Big Hit
Trailer 0:31
The Big Hit
15 Minutes
Trailer 0:32
15 Minutes

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    • October 2, 1948
    • Evansville, Indiana, USA
    • 1976 - present (3 children)
  • Other works
    TV commercials for IBM e-Business software ("It's a different kind of world. You need a different kind of software") (22 May 2000)
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    • 4 Interviews
    • 3 Articles
    • 9 Magazine Cover Photos

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    Received his Master's degree in Fine Arts from Rutgers University, where he has been a Professor of Theatre Arts since 1976; he was inducted into Rutgers' Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 1993. Brooks normally taught his courses at Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts; however, while working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), he videotaped lessons for his students at the studio...occasionally still wearing his character's Starfleet uniform.
  • Quotes
    It's the year 2000. But where are the flying cars? I was promised flying cars! I don't see any flying cars! Why? Why? Why?
    • Deep baritone voice

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