Avery Brooks

Avery Franklin Brooks is a retired 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 has delivered a variety of other performances to a great deal of acclaim. He has been nominated for a Saturn Award and three NAACP Image Awards. 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.

2 October 1948

Born on the same birth date (2 October 1948): Donna Karan • Persis Khambatta • Siim Kallas • Trevor Brooking

Born on the same birth day (2 October): Anna Ford • Annie Leibovitz • Charles Floquet • Darren Cahill • Frankie Fredericks • Martha Brookes Hutcheson • Maury Wills • Pattie Ruffner Jacobs • Tom Trbojevic

Born in the same month (October 1948): Brian Ross (journalist) • Cub Koda • Diane Ackerman • Duke Robillard • Gerry Robinson • Glenn Branca • James Howard Kunstler • John F. B. Mitchell • John Gray (English sportsman) • Kate Jackson • Marcia Barrett • Norman Ornstein • Pierre Lartigue • Piet Hein Donner • Renato Corona • Rick Parfitt • Robert Jordan • Steve Rucker (composer) • Sue Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Loughborough