Avery Brooks
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Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is a retired 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 has delivered a variety of other performances to a great deal of acclaim. He has been nominated for a Saturn Award and three NAACP Image Awards. Brooks has also been inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre and bestowed with the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre by the Shakespeare Theatre Company.[1][2][3][4]
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Born | Avery Franklin Brooks (1948-10-02) October 2, 1948 (age 75) Evansville, Indiana, U.S. |
Education | Indiana University, Bloomington Oberlin College Rutgers University, New Brunswick (BA, MFA) |
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Years active | 1984–2006 |
Spouse |
Vicki Bowen (m. 1976) |
Children | 3 |