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Avery Brooks Net Worth: How Affluent is the Star Trek Actor?

Avery Brooks net worth
Avery Brooks net worth

Avery Brooks Net Worth: Avery Brooks is well-known for his work as an actor, director, and educator. During the height of his fame, he was also a hugely successful vocalist. Avery is often known for being Captain Benjamin Sisko in the Star Trek series. As of 2021, Avery Brooks  has an estimated net worth of $60 million.

Full NameAvery Franklin Brooks
Nick Name:Avery Brooks
Birth Place:Evansville, Indiana, United States
Date Of Birth:2 October 1948
Age:73 years old
Wife:Vicki Lenora Brooks (m. 1976)
Kids:Asante Brooks, Cabral Brooks, Ayana Brooks
Profession:Actor, director, singer, and educator
Net Worth:$50 Million

Avery Brooks Early Life

Avery Brooks was born in Evansville, Indiana, the son of choral conductor and music educator Eva Lydia and tool and die craftsman Samuel Brooks.

Samuel Travis Crawford, his maternal grandpa, was also a vocalist who graduated from Tougaloo College in 1901. Avery’s family relocated to Gary, Indiana, when he was eight years old, when his father was laid off from International Harvester.

Brooks studied at both Indiana University and Oberlin College. In 1976, he received his bachelor of arts as well as his master of fine arts from Rutgers University, making him the first African American to get an MFA in acting and directing from the university.

 

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Avery Brooks Net Worth & Career

Trekkers or Trekkies, as fans of the Star Trek franchise are known, and maybe all geeks throughout the world, will never forget the contribution of actor Avery Brooks to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-1999), where he portrayed the NAACP and Saturn Award-nominated character of Benjamin Sisko.

Avery’s first significant break came from the television series ‘Spenser: For Hire,’ which aired on the ABC network in 1985, and in which he portrayed the role of a detective named ‘Hawk.’

Avery appeared as ‘A Man Called Hawk’ in another television series in 1989. Brook also appeared in the films ‘Spenser: The Judas Goat’ and ‘Spenser: A Savage Place.’ ‘Spenser: Ceremony’ comes next, followed by ‘Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes.’ Brook was given a fantastic opportunity to appear in the television series ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,’ which is essentially a science fiction television series.

Brook appeared as a member of ‘The Mod Squad’ in a television drama film. He also appeared in the spy series ‘I Spy,’ which aired on the NBC Network. Brook then appeared in a television series called ‘Far Beyond the Star.’

Among Brooks’s other significant works are ‘Twelve Years a Slave,’ ‘Happily Ever After Fairy Tales for Every Child,’ ‘The Big Hit,’ ‘Half Slave, Half Free: Solomon Northup’s Odyssey,’ and others.

Brook, along with Lester Bowie, Butch Morris, and Jon Hendricks, has also made their first live performance as a vocalist. Brook has also demonstrated exceptional job excellence in the world of theatre, where he appeared and starred in a number of notable plays in the United States.

Brooks, who is also a vocalist, director, and theatre lecturer in addition to his acting career, is most known for his appearances in Spenser: For Hire (1985–1988) and American History X (1998), among others.

Avery Brooks Net Worth

The actor, musician & director his starsign is Libra and he is now 73 years of age. As of 2021, Avery Brooks  has an estimated net worth of $60 million.

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