Avery Brooks
Avery Brooks (actually Avery Franklin Brooks, born October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana ) is an American actor, opera singer and director.
Life and career
The mother of Avery Brooks, Eva Lydia (née Crawford ), was among the first African-American women who were able to complete the study of music with a master. His father was a 1937-1947 singer, so that seemed to be in a choir at the radio station of the CBS him a career as a musician to be determined beforehand. Brooks visited after completing his school education, Indiana University and Oberlin College and graduated in 1976 with a Master's degree from Rutgers University in the areas of directing and acting. Then he taught for several years as a professor of theater studies at Rutgers University and was involved in several projects, such as the " National Black Arts Festival ".
Avery Brooks began his acting career as a stage actor, where in the play Paul Robeson by Phillip Hayes Dean, he was able to record his first major success in 1976. The story told in the play life story of the singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson called Brooks a lot from on melody-based skills. As a result, Solomon Northup 's Odyssey series American Playhouse Brooks was then in 1984 for the first time for a television production before the camera. However, he obtained in 1993 in the science fiction series Star Trek international recognition: Deep Space Nine (DS9 ) as Commander (later Captain ) Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, commanding officer of space station " Deep Space 9" and Emissary of Bajoran. Previously, you could have him as a " Hawk" in the series Spenser, opposite Robert Urich, as a friend of the main character see, as well as in the spin-off of this series with the series title Hawk, in which he sang the title role.
A highlight of his role in Star Trek was a sequence in which he embodied the black writer Benny Russell, who writes in 1953 Novellas for a science fiction magazine in New York this year. This sequence ( Beyond the Stars ) shows the problems of oppression and racism in the United States in the 1950s. After the end of the seven seasons long series DS9 in 1999, he got some supporting roles in television and film productions. The wider audience learned Avery Brooks in 1998 with the film American History X know, in which he played the headmaster of the school, who visited both main characters. He played at the theater, talking with his deep baritone comments in documentaries of the Discovery Channel and National Geographic, taught at Oberlin College and Case Western Reserve University and took on audiobooks. He is also a lecturer at the Mason Gross School of the Arts with a Professor of Theatre Studies. In 2008 he entered the theater production Death of a Salesman, based on the eponymous play by Arthur Miller in 1949, on ( German title Death of a Salesman ).
Since 1976, Avery Brooks is married to his wife Vicki Bowen. The couple has three children.