Avery Brooks
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday2 October 1948 (77 years old)
Place of birthEvansville, Indiana, USA
Known credits40
Biography
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 …
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
2026 · Benjamin Sisko (voice)
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018 · Self
Mysteries of Ancient China
2016 · Self - Presenter
The Captains Close Up
2013 · Self
The Captains
2011 · Self
For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
2010 · Self - Narrator
Drain the Ocean
2009 · Narrator
God v. Satan: The Final Battle
2008 · Himself (Narrator)
Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier
2007 · Self
Othello
2005 · Othello
Deep Space Nine: A Bold Beginning
2003 · Himself
Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
2003 · Self
Land of the Mammoth
2001 · Self - Narrator
15 Minutes
2001 · Leon Jackson
Savage Sun
1999 · Narrator (voice)
American History X
1998 · Sweeney
The Greatest Places
1998 · Narrator (voice)
Africa's Elephant Kingdom
1998 · Narrator
The Big Hit
1998 · Paris
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
1996 · Self
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
1995 · Benjamin Sisko
Spenser: A Savage Place
1995 · Hawk
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · King Maximus (voice)
The New Explorers: The Science of Star Trek
1995 · Self
Spenser: The Judas Goat
1994 · Hawk
Gargoyles
1994 · Nokkar (voice)
Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes
1994 · Hawk
Spenser: Ceremony
1993 · Hawk
The Ernest Green Story
1993 · Rev. Lawson
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
1993 · Himself
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary
1993 · Benjamin Sisko
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993 · Benjamin Sisko
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993 · Director
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
1991 · Solomon Northup
A Man Called Hawk
1989
Roots: The Gift
1988 · Cletus Moyer
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1987 · Uncle Tom
Moments without Proper Names
1987 · Self
Spenser: For Hire
1985 · Hawk
Finnegan Begin Again
1985 · Dude on Bus
American Playhouse
1982 · Solomon Northup
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