Avery Brooks
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...
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...
Known For
Cast Credits
15 Minutes
as Leon Jackson
American History X
as Sweeney
The Big Hit
as Paris
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
as Benjamin Sisko
Spenser: A Savage Place
as Hawk
Spenser: The Judas Goat
as Hawk
Spenser: Ceremony
as Hawk
The Ernest Green Story
as Rev. Lawson
Solomon Northup's Odyssey
as Solomon Northup
Roots: The Gift
as Cletus Moyer
Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Uncle Tom
Finnegan Begin Again
as Dude on Bus