Avery Brooks

Avery Brooks is a television actor and director born in Evansville, Indiana on October 2nd, 1948. He is best known for playing the role of Commander Benjamin Sisko on the 1993-1999 science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Brooks appeared in all 173 episodes of the series and also directed 9 episodes.

Notes & Trivia

 * Appeared as himself in the 2011 documentary The Captains written and hosted by William Shatner.

Other works

 * Avery Brooks is also known for playing the character of Hawk on the 1985-1989 crime drama Spenser: For Hire starring Robert Urich. He appeared in all 65 episodes of the series. He reprised the role of Hawk for the short-lived spin-off series A Man Called Hawk.


 * As with many Star Trek alumni, Avery Brooks provided a character voice on the Disney animated series Gargoyles. He played the voice of Nokkar in the episode entitled "Sentinel".


 * Avery Brooks' first major film work was playing a teacher named Doctor Bob Sweeney in the 1998 drama American History X.