Sterling K. Brown is one of the most acclaimed up and coming actors. He rised to unparalled fame with his involvement on the TV series, This Is Us!
So let’s dive in some trivia and facts about his life and career!
- His full name is Sterling Kelby Brown
- He was born on April 5, 1976
- He is an American actor
- He made his breakthrough in 2016 for portraying prosecutor Christopher Darden
- In the first season of the FX anthology series American Crime Story, subtitled The People v. O. J. Simpson
- For which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
- In the same year he began starring as Randall Pearson in the NBC drama series This Is Us
- A role which earned Brown his second Emmy in 2017 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
- As well as his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
- And his first Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
- And Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
- Brown was born in 1976 in St. Louis, Missouri
- His parents are Sterling Brown and Aralean Banks Brown
- Brown is one of five children
- He has two sisters and two brothers
- His father died when Brown was 10 years old
- As a child, he went by the name Kelby
- When he turned 16 he adopted the name Sterling
- Brown grew up in Olivette, Missouri
- He attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School
- Brown graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with an acting degree
- He initially wanted to major in economics so he could work in business
- But he fell in love with acting as a college freshman
- Brown then attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
- There he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree
- In June 2007, he married actress Ryan Michelle Bathe
- Whom he met as a college freshman at Stanford.
- They have two sons
- After graduation from college, Brown performed in a series of roles in regional theater
- Brown has also since appeared in numerous television shows
- Including ER, NYPD Blue, JAG, Boston Legal, Alias, Without A Trace, Supernatural, and Third Watch
- Brown was a regular in the comedy Starved
- And he has also appeared in movies
- Including Stay with Ewan McGregor, Brown Sugar with Taye Diggs, and Trust the Man with David Duchovny and Julianne Moore
- Brown played a recurring character on the television series Supernatural
- There he portrayed vampire hunter Gordon Walker
- Brown played Dr. Roland Burton on Army Wives
- He portrayed Detective Cal Beecher on Person of Interest
- Also appearing on the show Medium
- In 2008, he played David Mosley on the “Patience” episode of Eli Stone
- In 2016, Brown starred in the FX miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story as Christopher Darden
- In the theater, Brown was cast in the 2002 production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
- In the play he starred alongside Al Pacino, Paul Giamatti, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman and Jacqueline McKenzie
- In 2014, he starred as Hero in Suzan-Lori Parks’ Odyssey-inspired play Father Comes Home From the Wars at New York’s Public Theater
- Brown also starred in the 2014 movie The Suspect with Mekhi Phifer
- He also appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther as N’Jobu
- In June 2018, he gave the commencement address at Stanford University
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