Person attributes
Other attributes
Sterling Kelby Brown (born April 5, 1976) 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–present). 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 voiced characters in The Angry Birds Movie 2 and Frozen II (both 2019).
He was included in Time magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People of 2018.
Career
After college, Brown performed a series of roles in regional theater. He has also appeared on numerous television shows including ER, NYPD Blue, JAG, Boston Legal, Alias, Without a Trace, Supernatural, and Third Watch. He was a regular in the comedy Starved, and 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.
He had a recurring role on the television series Supernatural, as vampire hunter Gordon Walker. He played Dr. Roland Burton on Army Wives and Detective Cal Beecher on Person of Interest, 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, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards.
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. 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. He also starred in the 2014 movie The Suspect with Mekhi Phifer.
Since 2016, Brown has had a starring role in the television series This Is Us. In 2018, it made him the first African-American actor to win a Golden Globe in the Best Actor in a Television Drama category, 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. That year he also appeared as N'Jobu in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther.
In June 2018, Brown gave the commencement address at Stanford University. He also 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.
Personal life
Brown met actress Ryan Michelle Bathe as a college freshman at Stanford.They eloped in March 2006, but held a large ceremony in June 2007. They have two sons.
