Mehcad Brooks Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Birth name Mehcad Jason McKinley Brooks
Nationality American
Birth October 25, 1980 (Austin – Texas, United States)

BIOGRAPHY
Originally from Texas, Mehcad Brooks shined from a young age in sports, notably basketball, which allowed him to be accepted at Yale University. Preferring to try his hand at an acting career, the athlete joined the Southern California film school. Alongside his studies, he took his first steps on screen in 2000 in Malcolm and Boston Public . The young man made himself known by playing the son of Betty Applewhite ( Alfre Woodard ), in season 2 of Desperate Housewives , a family with a dark secret which will arouse the curiosity of the neighborhood.

The actor appeared in the casting of the film In the Valley of Elah in 2007, where he starred alongside Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron . Although he tried his hand at cinema a few times, with Love & Game and Les Chemins du Triomphe , two films with the theme of his first love, basketball, the actor flourished more on the small screen. He multiplies the interpretations on television and successively plays the boyfriend of Mélanie Barnett-Davis in The Game , and one of the high school students in My Generation , a program about young adults who we find ten years after their studies. The True Blood team called on him to play the boyfriend of Tara Thornton ( Rutina Wesley ) during season 2. In 2010, the public found him again with the series The Deep End , in the skin of a talented graduate in law, who joins one of the most prestigious teams of lawyers in Los Angeles. Subsequently, the actor distinguished himself in La Diva du Divan , in the guise of “TK” King, an unpredictable young American football star, taken in hand by psychologist Dani Santino ( Callie Thorne ).

In 2015, his professional career took a turn, and Mehcad Brooks returned to the fantastic register, becoming one of the protagonists of Supergirl , alongside Melissa Benoist . His character, the famous Jimmy Olsen, acquires more depth in season 2, taking over the reins of Catco, in the absence of his boss. With protected status, the photographer now takes on the costume of a vigilante pursuing criminals in the streets of National City.