Richard Brooks

Richard Brooks

actor, director, producer

Richard Brooks was born on Dec 09, 1962 in USA. Richard Brooks's big-screen debut came with With Intent to Kill directed by Mike Robe in 1984, strarring Eddie Cox. Richard Brooks is known for Being Mary Jane directed by Salim Akil, Gabrielle Union stars as Mary Jane Paul and Lisa Vidal as Kara. Richard Brooks has got 4 awards and 3 nominations so far. The most recent award Richard Brooks achieved is Independent Shorts Awards. The upcoming new tvshow Richard Brooks plays is The Rich & the Ruthless - Season 4 which will be released on Jul 28, 2017.

Commanding actor Richard Brooks was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He is an actor, director and singer. Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brooks studied acting, dance, and voice work at Interlochen Academy of Arts in Michigan. Later, he moved to New York City and was a student of the Circle in the Square Professional Theater School and performed in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Conference production of August Wilson's Fences.He moved to Los Angeles, where he started his movie career. Some of his appearances were in _Teen Wolf_, Off Limits (1988), _Shakedown_, _Shocker_ and To Sleep with Anger (1990). He became noticed in The Substitute (1996) with Tom Berenger and as voodoo drug lord Judah Earl in The Crow: City of Angels (1996) with Vincent Perez, Thomas Jane, Mia Kirshner and Iggy Pop. While on TV, he is best known as Paul Robinette on Law & Order (1990) and Jubal Early on Firefly (2002). He portrayed Frederick Douglass in the PBS American Experience docudrama mini-series The Abolitionists (1988) and plays Gabrielle Union's big brother Patrick in the hit BET drama Being Mary Jane (2013).

  • Birthday

    Dec 09, 1962
  • Place of Birth

    Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  • Also known

    Richard Lee Brooks, Richard L. Brooks

Known For

Awards

4 wins & 3 nominations

Independent Shorts Awards
2020
Best Mobile Short
Winner - Platinum Award
Anticipation (2020)
2020
Best Original Story
Winner - Platinum Award
Anticipation (2020)
Indie Short Fest
2020
Best Mobile Short
Winner - April Award
Anticipation (2020)
2020
Best Original Screenplay
Winner - April Award
Anticipation (2020)
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