Avery Brooks

Avery Brooks was born on Oct 02, 1948 in USA. Avery Brooks's big-screen debut came with Spenser: For Hire - Season 1 directed by Winrich Kolbe in 1985, strarring Hawk. Avery Brooks is known for American History X directed by Tony Kaye, Edward Norton stars as Derek and Edward Furlong as Danny. Avery Brooks has got 1 awards and 6 nominations so far. The most recent award Avery Brooks achieved is Online Film & Television Association. The upcoming new movie Avery Brooks plays is 15 Minutes which will be released on Mar 09, 2001.

Avery Franklin Brooks was born on October 2, 1948 in Evansville, Indiana to a musically talented family. His maternal grandfather, Samuel Travis Crawford, was a tenor who graduated from Tougaloo College in Mississippi in 1901. Crawford toured the country singing with the Delta Rhythm Boys in the 1930s. Brooks also is musically inclined having played jazz piano, and has performed as the great baritone/actor/scholar Paul Robeson in the play entitled "Paul Robeson". He sang the lead in the A. Anthony Davis opera "X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X", and performed as "Theseus" and "Oberon" in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Washington's Arena Stage. Long affiliated with Rutgers University, he was the institution's first Black MFA graduate. Additionally, he served as the National Black Arts Festival's (NBAF) Artistic Director throughout the 1990s in Atlanta, Georgia. An actor, activist, musician, director, and educator of epic proportions, Brooks was quoted in an interview about his work with NBAF and his performances: "If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given--my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you".