Book Avery Brooks

Actor, director, singer and educator Avery Brooks is best known as Captain Benjamin Sisko, the commanding officer at the center of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, across seven seasons between 1993 and 1999. Chosen over 100 other actors for the part, he became the first Black American to lead a Star Trek series, portraying a captain who was also a widower and devoted father, and his episodes include the acclaimed …Nor the Battle to the Strong (1996). Before Star Trek, Brooks made the role of Hawk his own on ABC's detective series Spenser: For Hire, which debuted in 1985 and ran three seasons, and he earned his own spinoff, A Man Called Hawk, in 1989. He returned as Hawk in four television films: Spenser: Ceremony, Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes, Spenser: The Judas Goat and Spenser: A Savage Place. Film audiences know him as Dr. Bob Sweeney in American History X. Brooks has received a Saturn Award nomination and three NAACP Image Award nominations, is a Fellow of the American Theatre, and received the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre. He has taught at Rutgers University and Case Western Reserve University.