Born in Evansville, Indiana, USA — Oct 02 1948

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 raised in Gary, Indiana. He attended Oberlin College, where he studied music and theater. After graduating from Oberlin, he moved to New York City to pursue his acti…
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Benjamin Sisko

Nokkar (voice)

King Maximus (voice)

Benjamin Sisko (voice)

Hawk

Sweeney

Leon Jackson

Self


Paris

Himself

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Self - Narrator

Himself

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Cletus Moyer

Dude on Bus

Solomon Northup

Self

Benjamin Sisko

Himself

Uncle Tom

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Narrator (voice)

Hawk

Narrator (voice)

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Rev. Lawson

Hawk

Hawk

Self - Presenter

Hawk

Himself
Narrator

Narrator

Himself (Narrator)