ST. LOUIS – St. Louis native Sterling K. Brown was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2018. Brown is best known for his role on NBC's 'This is Us.'
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Actress Sarah Paulson wrote a short piece about Brown in Time saying when she first met him on the set of American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, she knew he “had come to play.”
Sterling K. Brown was born ready.
I remember the first day I saw him on the set of American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, our eyes meeting from across a re-created D.A.’s office. In an instant it was clear: Sterling had come to play. Every day was like having a front-row seat in a master class on readiness, a meditation on seizing opportunity, but most unexpectedly, on JOY.
When you’ve been a player since you were in the womb, been forced to sit on the bench, and suddenly find yourself the MVP, no one would be surprised if fear or neurosis took hold. But when your name is Sterling K. Brown, what you choose to summon is your joy. If you ever have the pleasure of having him smile at you, laugh the laugh of a buddha from his soul, you would count yourself among the lucky. But you haven’t lived until you’ve seen him swagger toward you whilst singing “Who’s That Lady?,” radiating light brighter than E.T.’s fingertip.
-Sarah Paulson in Time magazine
