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Avery Brooks

Birth name: Avery Franklin Brooks

Birth date: 02.10.1948

He was born into 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".

Filmography

# Star Trek: Legacy (2006) (VG) (filming) (voice) .... Captain Benjamin Sisko # 15 Minutes (2001) .... Detective Leon Jackson ... aka 15 Minuten Ruhm (Germany) # The Science of Big Al (2000) (TV) .... Narrator (USA version) ... aka Big Al Uncovered (USA) # Quest for Life (2000) .... Narrator # "Star Trek : Deep Space Nine" .... Captain Sisko / ... (173 episodes, 1993-1999) ... aka DS9 (USA: promotional abbreviation) ... aka Deep Space Nine (USA: short title) ... aka Star Trek: DS9 (USA: short title) - What You Leave Behind (1999) TV Episode .... Captain Sisko - The Dogs of War (1999) TV Episode .... Captain Sisko - Extreme Measures (1999) TV Episode .... Captain Sisko - Tacking Into the Wind (1999) TV Episode .... Captain Sisko - When It Rains... (1999) TV Episode .... Captain Sisko (168 more) # American History X (1998) .... Dr. Bob Sweeney # "Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery" (1998) (mini) TV Series (voice) ... aka Africans in America (USA: short title) # The Big Hit (1998) .... Paris # "Heart of Africa" (1996) (mini) TV Series .... Narrator ... aka National Geographic's Heart of Africa (USA) # Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger (1996) (VG) (voice) .... Captain Benjamin Sisko # "Gargoyles" .... Nokkar (1 episode, 1996) - Sentinel (1996) TV Episode (voice) .... Nokkar # "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child" (1995) TV Series .... Additional Voices (unknown episodes) # Spenser: A Savage Place (1995) (TV) .... Hawk # Spenser: The Judas Goat (1994) (TV) .... Hawk # Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes (1994) (TV) .... Hawk # The Ernest Green Story (1993) (TV) .... Rev. Lawson # Spenser: Ceremony (1993) (TV) .... Hawk # Marian Anderson (1991) (TV) .... Narrator # "Trackdown" (1991) TV Series .... Presenter # "A Man Called Hawk" (1989) TV Series .... Hawk (unknown episodes) # Roots: The Gift (1988) (TV) .... Cletus Moyer # Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987) (TV) .... Uncle Tom # "Spenser: For Hire" .... Hawk (1 episode, 1987) - Among Friends (1987) TV Episode .... Hawk # Finnegan Begin Again (1985) (TV) .... Dude on Bus # Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984) (TV) .... Solomon Northup ... aka Half-Slave, Half-Free