Sterling K. Brown trivia: 47 facts about the famous actor!

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!

1. His full name is Sterling Kelby Brown
2. He was born on April 5, 1976
3. He is an American actor
4. He made his breakthrough in 2016 for portraying prosecutor Christopher Darden
5. In the first season of the FX anthology series American Crime Story, subtitled The People v. O. J. Simpson
6. For which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
7. In the same year he began starring as Randall Pearson in the NBC drama series This Is Us
8. A role which earned Brown his second Emmy in 2017 for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
9. As well as his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama
10. And his first Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
11. And Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
12. Brown was born in 1976 in St. Louis, Missouri
13. His parents are Sterling Brown and Aralean Banks Brown
14. Brown is one of five children
15. He has two sisters and two brothers
16. His father died when Brown was 10 years old
17. As a child, he went by the name Kelby
18. When he turned 16 he adopted the name Sterling
19. Brown grew up in Olivette, Missouri
20. He attended Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School
21. Brown graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with an acting degree
22. He initially wanted to major in economics so he could work in business
23. But he fell in love with acting as a college freshman
24. Brown then attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
25. There he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree
26. In June 2007, he married actress Ryan Michelle Bathe
27. Whom he met as a college freshman at Stanford.
28. They have two sons
29. After graduation from college, Brown performed in a series of roles in regional theater
30. Brown has also since appeared in numerous television shows
31. Including ER, NYPD Blue, JAG, Boston Legal, Alias, Without A Trace, Supernatural, and Third Watch
32. Brown was a regular in the comedy Starved
33. And he has also appeared in movies
34. Including Stay with Ewan McGregor, Brown Sugar with Taye Diggs, and Trust the Man with David Duchovny and Julianne Moore
35. Brown played a recurring character on the television series Supernatural
36. There he portrayed vampire hunter Gordon Walker
37. Brown played Dr. Roland Burton on Army Wives
38. He portrayed Detective Cal Beecher on Person of Interest
39. Also appearing on the show Medium
40. In 2008, he played David Mosley on the “Patience” episode of Eli Stone
41. In 2016, Brown starred in the FX miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story as Christopher Darden
42. In the theater, Brown was cast in the 2002 production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
43. In the play he starred alongside Al Pacino, Paul Giamatti, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman and Jacqueline McKenzie
44. 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
45. Brown also starred in the 2014 movie The Suspect with Mekhi Phifer
46. He also appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther as N’Jobu
47. In June 2018, he gave the commencement address at Stanford University