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Brooks was nominated for an Ace Award in the category of best Actor in a movie or miniseries for that said role. In 1987, he starred in the role of Uncle Tom in Showtime's filmed adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. īrooks appeared in the 1985 television movie adaptation of Finnegan Begin Again. It was adapted from Northup's memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853).
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The story chronicled the life of Solomon Northup, a free man from New York kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841 and held until 1853, when he regained his freedom with the help of family and friends. In 1984, Brooks received critical praise for his featured role in PBS's American Playhouse production of Half Slave, Half Free: Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks. īrooks was nominated for a Saturn Award and two NAACP Image Awards for the role. He has also been unfailingly polite and a classy guy in all my dealings with him. He is not a demanding or ego-driven actor, rather he is a thoughtful and intelligent man who sometimes has insights into the character that no one else has thought about. Moore said of Brooks:Īvery, like his character (Sisko), is a very complex man. Brooks also directed nine episodes of the series, including " Far Beyond the Stars", an episode focusing on racial injustice.
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I just assumed that I was equal." īrooks returned to play Hawk in four Spenser television movies: Spenser: Ceremony, Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes, Spenser: The Judas Goat and Spenser: A Savage Place.īrooks is best known for his role as Benjamin Sisko on the syndicated science-fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999.īrooks won the role of Commander Benjamin Sisko by beating 100 other actors from all racial backgrounds to become the first Black-American captain to lead a Star Trek series.
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In landing the title role, Brooks became the fourth Black-American male actor in a starring role in a first-run television drama following Bill Cosby, who co-starred with Robert Culp in the NBC spy series I Spy from 1965 to 1968, Clarence Williams III, who starred as undercover police detective Linc Hayes in the iconic ABC "hippie" cop drama The Mod Squad from 1968 to 1973, and Philip Michael Thomas, who starred opposite Don Johnson in Miami Vice.īrooks said of his role as Hawk: "I never thought of myself as the sidekick. Hawk became a popular character, and after three seasons, Brooks in 1989 received his own, short-lived spinoff series, A Man Called Hawk. In 1985, Brooks was cast in the role of Hawk on the ABC television detective series Spenser: For Hire, based on the mystery series published by Robert Parker. Television career Spenser: For Hire: Hawk
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He later completed his Bachelor of Arts plus a Master of Fine Arts from Rutgers University in 1976, becoming the first African American to receive an MFA in acting and directing from Rutgers. īrooks attended Indiana University and Oberlin College. "Music is all around me and in me, as I am in it," Brooks has said. His maternal uncle Samuel Travis Crawford was a member of the Delta Rhythm Boys.
His father was a member of the Wings Over Jordan Choir, an a cappella spiritual choir best known for performing on CBS radio from 1937 to 1947. His mother, who was among the first African-American women to earn a master's degree in music at Northwestern University, taught music wherever the family lived. The Brooks household was filled with music. Brooks has said: "I was born in Evansville.but it was Gary, Indiana, that made me." When Avery was eight years old his family moved to Gary, Indiana, after his father had been laid off from International Harvester. His maternal grandfather, Samuel Travis Crawford, was also a singer who graduated from Tougaloo College in 1901. Early life Īvery Brooks was born in Evansville, Indiana, the son of Eva Lydia ( née Crawford), a choral conductor and music instructor, and Samuel Brooks, a union official and tool and die worker. 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. He has been nominated for a Saturn Award and three NAACP Image Awards. Brooks has delivered a variety of other performances to a great deal of acclaim. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award–nominated film American History X. 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. Avery Franklin Brooks (born October 2, 1948) is an American actor, director, singer, narrator and educator.
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