Sterling Kelby Brown (born April 5, 1976) is an American actor. He is known for playing Christopher Darden in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Brown is also known for his role as Roland Burton on the Lifetime Network drama series Army Wives. He currently stars as Randall Pearson on the critically acclaimed NBC drama, This Is Us.Brown was born in 1976 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Sterling Brown Jr. and Aralean Banks Brown. Brown is one of five children; he has two sisters and two brothers. His father died when Brown was 10 years old. As a child, he was known by his middle name, Kelby, until he was 16 and began going by his first name Sterling to honor his late father. Brown grew up in Olivette, Missouri and attended St. Louis Country Day School. Brown attended Stanford University from which he graduated in 1998 with an acting degree. He initially wanted to work in business but fell in love with acting as a college freshman. Brown then attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where he obtained his MFA. Wikipedia
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