Avery Brooks Biography & Movies

Born to a musical family in Evansville, Indiana, Avery Brooks moved to Gary, Indiana where he grew up listening to and singing jazz as his mother played piano and organ, while his father sang in the gospel group Wings Over Jordan. He attended and graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey, with a Masters of Fine Arts in acting and directing. Not willing to part from school entirely, Avery became a professor for Drama-Science at Rutgers in 1972, an honor he wouldn't give up until... See All