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First Name

Avery

Last Name

Brooks

Date of Birth

02 October 1948

Height

Build

Average

Hair Color

Bald

Place of Birth

Evansville, Indiana

Star Sign

Libra

Ethnicity

Black

Claim to Fame

Spenser: For Hire, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Wikipedia Text

Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, jazz musician, opera singer and college professor. Brooks is perhaps best known for his television roles as Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk.

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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".

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www.imdb.com/name/nm0000984/bio

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