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Sterling Kelby Brown (born April 5, 1976)[1] is an American actor. He has portrayed Christopher Darden in the FX limited series The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016) and stars as Randall Pearson in the NBC drama series This Is Us (from 2016-2022). Both roles have earned him Primetime Emmy Awards and the latter also won him a Golden Globe Award. He has also had supporting roles in the films Black Panther (2018) and Waves (2019), and recently appeared on the Amazon Prime original series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. He has also voiced characters in The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Frozen II, both released in 2019. He was included in Time magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People of 2018.[2]

Sterling K. Brown
Brown at the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	Sterling Kelby Brown (1976-04-05) April 5, 1976 (age 46) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Education	Stanford University (BA) New York University (MFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present
Spouse	Ryan Michelle Bathe ​ ​ (m. 2006)​
Children	2
Awards	Full list

Early life

Brown was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Sterling Brown[1] and Aralean (Banks) Brown. He has two sisters and two brothers.[3] His father died when he was 10 years old.[4]

As a child, he went by the name Kelby; when he turned 16, he adopted the name Sterling, explaining in 2016:

I went by Kelby. My mom tells me this story – she was reiterating it the other day – in kindergarten I came home one day and said, 'Mom, Sterling is eight letters and Kelby is five. I'll just do Kelby and then when I turn 16, I will go by Sterling.' And I don't remember that. The impetus for me is that he had been gone for some time, and I was like, 'Kelby was a little boy's name.' I felt like I was ready to become Sterling.[4]

Brown grew up in Olivette, Missouri, an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. He attended the private Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School.[5]

He graduated from Stanford University in 1998 with an acting degree. He had initially planned to major in economics with a focus on business, but fell in love with acting as a freshman.[6] He did post-graduate study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree.[7]

Career

After college, Brown performed a series of roles in regional theater.[8][9][10][11][12] He has also appeared on numerous television shows including ER, NYPD Blue,[6] JAG, Boston Legal, Alias, Without a Trace, Supernatural,[13] and Third Watch.[14] He was a regular in the comedy Starved,[15] and has also appeared in movies, including Stay with Ewan McGregor, Brown Sugar with Taye Diggs,[16] and Trust the Man with David Duchovny and Julianne Moore.[17]

He had a recurring role on the television series Supernatural, as vampire hunter Gordon Walker.[18] He played Dr. Roland Burton on Army Wives[19] and Detective Cal Beecher on Person of Interest,[20] and appeared on Medium. In 2008, he played David Mosley on the "Patience" episode of Eli Stone. In 2016, he starred in the FX miniseries The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story as Christopher Darden,[21] for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards.[22]

In the theater, Brown was cast in the 2002 production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui starring Al Pacino, Paul Giamatti, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman and Jacqueline McKenzie.[23] 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.[24][25] He also starred in the 2014 movie The Suspect with Mekhi Phifer.[26]

Since 2016, Brown has had a starring role in the television series This Is Us.[27][28] In 2018, it made him the first African-American actor to win a Golden Globe in the Best Actor in a Television Drama category,[29] and the first to win a Screen Actors Guild Award in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series category. He also won, with the rest of the cast, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. [30] That year he also appeared as N'Jobu in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther.[31]

In June 2018, Brown gave the commencement address at his alma mater Stanford University.[32]

He appeared as a guest star in the NYPD sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and earned critical acclaim for his role as Philip Davidson, a dentist under investigation for murdering his business partner. He was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2018 for this performance.

In August 2019, he was announced at D23 Expo and on Twitter as the voice of Lieutenant Destin Mattias in Frozen II.[33][34][35]

Personal life

Brown met actress Ryan Michelle Bathe as a college freshman at Stanford.[6] They eloped in March 2006,[36] but held a large ceremony in June 2007.[6] They have two sons, Andrew and Amaré.[37][38]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2002	Brown Sugar	Co-Worker	Rick Famuyiwa
2005	Trust the Man	Rand	Bart Freundlich
	Stay	Frederick / Devon	Marc Forster
2008	Righteous Kill	IA Detective Rogers	Jon Avnet
2011	Our Idiot Brother	Officer Omar Coleman	Jesse Peretz
2013	The Suspect	The Other Suspect	Stuart Connelly
2015	Mojave	Detective Fletcher	William Monahan	Uncredited
2016	Whiskey Tango Foxtrot	Sergeant Hurd	Glenn Ficarra John Requa
	Spaceman	Rodney Scott	Brett Rapkin
2017	Marshall	Joseph Spell	Reginald Hudlin
2018	Black Panther	N'Jobu	Ryan Coogler
	Hotel Artemis	Sherman / Waikiki	Drew Pearce
	The Predator	Agent Will Traeger	Shane Black
2019	The Angry Birds Movie 2	Garry	Thurop Van Orman	Voice
	Waves	Ronald Williams	Trey Edward Shults
	Frozen II	Lieutenant Destin Mattias	Jennifer Lee Chris Buck	Voice
2020	The Rhythm Section	Marc Serra	Reed Morano
2022	Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.	Lee-Curtis Childs	Adamma Ebo
TBA	Rise	Willie Davis	Kevin Rodney Sullivan

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002–2004	Third Watch	Officer Edward Dade	9 episodes
2003	Hack	Rasheed Morgan	Episode: "Hidden Agenda"
	Tarzan	Detective Carey	2 episodes
2004	ER	Bob Harris	Episode: "Get Carter"
	NYPD Blue	Kelvin George	Episode: "Chatty Chatty Bang Bang"
	JAG	Sergeant Harry Smith	Episode: "Coming Home"
2005	Boston Legal	Zeke Borns	Episode: "Death Be Not Proud"
	Starved	Adam Williams	7 episodes
2006	Alias	Agent Rance	Episode: "There's Only One Sidney Bristow"
	Smith	Mr. Corey	Episode: "Three"
	Without a Trace	Thomas Biggs	Episode: "Watch Over Me"
2006–2007	Supernatural	Gordon Walker	4 episodes
2007	Shark	Quenton North	Episode: "Teacher's Pet"
	Standoff	Russell Marsh	Episode: "Lie to Me"
2007–2013	Army Wives	Roland Burton	107 episodes
2008	Eli Stone	David Mosley	Episode: "Patience"
2010	Medium	Todd Gillis	Episode: "The People in Your Neighborhood"
2011	Detroit 1-8-7	Cameron Jones	Episode: "Ice Man/Malibu"
	The Good Wife	Andrew Boylan	Episode: "Feeding the Rat"
	Harry's Law	Mr. Thomas	Episode: "American Girl"
2012	Nikita	Nick Anson	Episode: "True Believer"
2012–2013	Person of Interest	Detective Cal Beecher	6 episodes
2013	NCIS	Elijah Banner	Episode: "Devil's Triad"
2014	The Mentalist	Agent Higgins	Episode: "White Lines"
	Masters of Sex	Marcus	Episode: "Story of My Life"
2015	Castle	Ed Redley	Episode: "The Wrong Stuff"
	Criminal Minds	Fitz	Episode: "Beyond Borders"
2016	The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story	Christopher Darden	10 episodes
2016–2022	This Is Us	Randall Pearson	Main role
2017	Insecure	Lionel	2 episodes
	Running Wild with Bear Grylls	Himself	Episode: "Sterling K. Brown"
2018	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Sterling K. Brown/James Bay"
	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Philip Davidson	Episode: "The Box"
	Black Love	Himself	2 episodes
	Robot Chicken	Various voices	Episode: "Shall I Visit the Dinosaurs?"
2019	The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience	Sia	TV special
	Sesame Street	Himself	Episode: "Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration"
	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Reggie	4 episodes
2019–2020	One Day at Disney	Narrator	52 episodes
2020	Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts	Lio Oak (voice)	Main role
	A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote	Leo McGarry	Recreation of "Hartsfield's Landing"
	Big Mouth	Michael Angelo (voice)	Season 4, Recurring role
2021	Solar Opposites	Halk (voice)	4 episodes

Music videos

Year	Artist	Title	Role
2019	The Lonely Island (feat. Sia)	"Oakland Nights"	Sia

Theatre

Year	Show	Role	Theater
2002	Twelfth Night	Antonio	Public Theater Delacorte Theater
	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui	Goodwill	National Actor's Theatre
2006	Macbeth	Macduff	Public Theater Delacorte Theater
2009	The Brother/Sister Plays Part 1: In The Red and Brown Water	Shango	Public Theater Anspacher Theater
	The Brother/Sister Plays Part 2: The Brothers Size and Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet	Shua
2014	Father Comes Home From the Wars (Parts 1, 2, & 3)	Hero/Ulysses
		Hero

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Sterling K. Brown at IMDb
• Sterling K. Brown at AllMovie

На других языках

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[de] Sterling K. Brown

Sterling Kelby Brown (* 5. April 1976[1] in St. Louis, Missouri) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler.

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[es] Sterling K. Brown

Sterling Kelby Brown (San Luis (Misuri); 5 de abril de 1976) es un actor estadounidense. Es conocido por interpretar a Christopher Darden en The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, papel con el que ganó el Primetime Emmy Award por Mejor Actor de Reparto en una Serie Limitada o Película. Brown es también conocido por su papel como Roland Burton en la serie de Lifetime, Army Wives. Actualmente interpreta a Randall Pearson en la serie de NBC This Is Us.

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[ru] Браун, Стерлинг

Сте́рлинг Ке́лби Бра́ун (англ. Sterling Kelby Brown, род. 5 апреля 1976, Сент-Луис, Миссури, США) — американский актёр. Наиболее известен по ролям Кристофера Дардена в сериале «Американская история преступлений: Народ против О. Джея Симпсона» и Рэндалла Пирсона в телесериале «Это мы». Лауреат премии «Золотой глобус» и двух премий «Эмми».

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