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| | Avery Brooks |
 | | Following school, Brooks began working in theatre, landing numerous roles including the starring role in Othello, Tesus and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Malcom X in The Life and Times of Malcolm X, and a number of other roles in such plays as The Offering, The Talented Teeth, Fences, Pantomime and Boogie Woogie Landscapes. |
 | | The educational circle had not forgotten Brooks, for in 1994 he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theater. |
 | | Brooks married in 1976 and with his wife Vicki, has three children, a daughter, Ayana, and two sons, Asante and Cabral. |
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