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 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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