Birth Name: Avery Franklin Brooks
Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)

Biography and Career:

Avery Brooks was born on October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana, U.S. He is an American actor, jazz musician, opera singer and college professor.

Avery Brooks is the son of Eva Lydia, a chorale conductor and music instructor, and Samuel Brooks, a union official and tool and die worker. His maternal grandfather, Samuel Travis Crawford, was also a singer. They shifted to Gary, Indiana when he was 8 years old. His mother was the first African-American women to earn a master's degree in music at Northwestern University. He studied at the Indiana University and Oberlin College and got a B.A. and M.F.A. from Rutgers University in 1976 and he became the first African- American to get a MFA in acting a nd directing from Rutgers.

He played the role of Hawk on the ABC television detective series Spenser: For Hire in 1985. In 1989 he did a short lived spinoff series A Man Called Hawk. He again played the role of Hawk in four Spenser television movies: Spenser: Ceremony, Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes, Spenser: The Judas Goat and Spenser: A Savage Place. He was one among the six actors to lend his voice for Star Trek: Captain's Chair. He has also directed nine episodes of the series including "Far beyond the Stars", an episode focusing on racial injustice.

Apart from acting he is also a professor of the theatre at the Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University. He has been a professor for more than three decades. He has also taught at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University. He was the Artistic Director for the National Black Arts Festival in connection with Rutgers University from 1993 to 1996.

He has also performed on stage with Butch Morris, Lester Bowie, and Jon Hendricks. He is deep baritone singer. He played the main role in Anthony Davis opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X in 1985.

Why do we like Avery Brooks?

We like Avery Brooks because he a multi talented person.

Why is Avery Brooks Famous?

He is famous because of his roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and his film role in American History X.

by FW Editor

Avery Brooks Lists

	1948 births
	Actors from Indiana
	African American academics
	African American actors
	African American singers
	African American television actors
	American film actors
	American jazz pianists
	American jazz singers
	American male singers
	American musicians
	American stage actors
	American television actors
	American television directors
	American theatre directors
	American voice actors
	Audio book narrators
	Living people
	Oberlin College alumni
	People from Evansville, Indiana
	People from Gary, Indiana
	Rutgers University alumni

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Avery Brooks Pictures

 

Avery Brooks Movies
The Mirror Has Two Faces American History X The Big Hit The Greatest Places Quest for Life The Better Hour Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special Ancient Evidence Jesus: The Complete Story Land of the Mammoth Man Called Hawk Spenser: For Hire Africa`s Elephant Kingdom
Avery Brooks Filmography

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Category: Actors  - ( Actors Archive)

Date Added: 27 February '10

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