1. – Avery Brooks, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, TV, 1993-99. Siddig, then billed with his (shortened) Sudanese birth name, Siddig El Fadi, was producer-creator Rick Berman‘s first choice to play Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko, but Malcolm McDowell’s nephew was deemed too young. Instead, he became the genetically-enhanced Dr Julian Bashir and had a son with co-star Nana Visitor during their 1997-2001 marriage. Sid’s full birth name, is: Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi.
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