# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mehcad-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:57:19.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mehcad-brooks"
name: "Mehcad Brooks"
slug: "mehcad-brooks"
description: "Mehcad Jason McKinley Brooks 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."
tagline: "American actor and model"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mehcad_Brooks_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1980-10-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.17306266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "mehcadbrooks"
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    handle:    "mehcadbrooks"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm1419635"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.mehcad-brooks.net/"
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    title: "Մեհքադ Բրուքս"
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    title: "메커드 브룩스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Брукс, Мехкад"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Mehcad Brooks"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump