Mehcad Brooks

American actor and model

Born

25 October 1980, Austin

Citizenship

United States

Occupation

actor, television actor, model, film actor

Films here

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Mehcad Jason McKinley Brooks (born October 25, 1980) is an American actor and former fashion model. He is known for his roles as Matthew Applewhite in the second season of ABC's series Desperate Housewives (2005–2006), Jerome in The Game, "Eggs" Benedict Talley in the first and second seasons of HBO's series True Blood, his leading role as Terrance "TK" King in the USA series Necessary Roughness (2011–2013) and James Olsen in the CBS/The CW series Supergirl. From 2022 to 2025, he portrayed one of the lead roles, that of NYPD Detective Jalen Shaw, on the NBC police procedural drama Law & Order.

Filmography (martial arts films)

Frequent collaborators

• Joe Taslim
• Tadanobu Asano
• Ludi Lin
• Jessica McNamee
• Josh Lawson
• Chin Han
• Hiroyuki Sanada
• Lewis Tan
• Simon McQuoid

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q981809 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.