--- title: Sterling K Brown Answers This Is US Questions in GIFs description: 'This Is Us' star Sterling K. Brown answered your biggest This Is Us questions with GIFs of himself. canonical: https://time.com/5136443/sterling-k-brown-twitter-chat-this-is-us-gifs/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-06T22:34:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:23.701Z og:title: Sterling K. 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Brown, winner of Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for 'This Is Us,' poses in the press room at the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 21, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Dan MacMedan/Getty Images) Dan MacMedan—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Feb 6, 2018 10:34 PM UTC [Sterling K. Brown](http://time.com/4957473/sterling-k-brown-nicole-kidman-emmys-speech/) has won two [Emmy awards](http://time.com/4946098/emmys-memes-2017/) and a [Golden Globe award](http://time.com/5077939/golden-globes-2018-date-host-nominees/) for his portrayal of Randall Pearson on the hit tearjerking, [Crockpot-featuring](http://time.com/5118580/crockpot-this-is-us/) drama series, [_This Is Us_](http://time.com/5131492/jack-death-this-is-us-review/). On Tuesday, however, Brown showed that he’s got skills off-camera as well, when he hosted a Twitter chat with fans of the show and dexterously responded to each tweet with only GIFs of himself. Viewers took to their Twitter accounts to ask Brown questions like if he was anything like his on-screen character and how he felt reading the script about Jack Pearson’s tragic death; miraculously, there was an appropriate and fitting GIF for Brown to tweet his response every time. All in all, Brown answered 17 questions — see his plethora of GIF responses below. > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960936668395061250) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960936907398983685) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960937479577595904) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960937818628358146) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960938015131512833) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960938209583685632) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960938755539398656) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960938943519670272) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960939107357573121) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960939280427237376) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960939485146923009) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960939975523975168) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960940144734818304) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960940399664615424) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960941719070982145) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960942134982422528) > [](https://twitter.com/SterlingKBrown/status/960942877730750465) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5136443/sterling-k-brown-twitter-chat-this-is-us-gifs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5136443/sterling-k-brown-twitter-chat-this-is-us-gifs/"},"headline":"Sterling K. 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