Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor finest identified for his roles on the sequence “Homicide: Life on The Street” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” died Monday at age 61.
Braugher’s publicist Jennifer Allen confirmed his loss of life to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and CNN, in addition to the commerce publications Variety and the Hollywood Reporter. His loss of life was first reported by Deadline. The studies all stated Braugher died after a short sickness.
The Chicago-born actor had his breakthrough function in 1989’s “Glory,” starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, who gained an Oscar for the movie about an all-Black military regiment throughout the the Civil War.
Despite the half, he advised The Associated Press in 2019 that he struggled to seek out work in a Hollywood the place roles for African American actors had been “few and far between. Period.”
But he would set up himself with the function of Det. Frank Pembleton, which he would play for seven seasons in “Homicide: Life on the Street,” a gritty police drama on NBC primarily based on a e book by David Simon, who would go on to create “The Wire.”
He would win his first profession Emmy for the function, taking the trophy for lead actor in a drama sequence in 1998.
He would win his second for lead actor in a miniseries or film for the 2006 restricted sequence “Thief” on FX. Braugher can be nominated for 11 Emmys general.
FILE – Andre Braugher holds the award for excellent lead actor in a miniseries or a film for his work on “Thief” on the 58th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Aug. 27, 2006, in Los Angeles. Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor finest identified for his roles on the sequence “Homicide: Life on The Street” and “Brooklyn 99,” died Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, at age 61. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File).
Years later he would play a really completely different type of cop on a really completely different type of present, shifting to comedy as Capt. Ray Holt on the Andy Samberg-starring “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” It would run for eight seasons from 2013 to 2021 on Fox and NBC.
Though he’d dipped his toe into comedy within the TNT dramedy “Men of a Certain Age,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” nonetheless represented a significant shift for Braugher, who was identified for performing in darkish and heavy dramas.
“I just felt as though it was an opportunity to do something strikingly different from the rest of my career,” Braugher advised the AP. “I like it because it just simply opens up my mind and forces me to think in a different way. So I think I’ve become much more sort of supple as an actor, and more open to the incredible number of possibilities of how to play a scene.”
He was nominated for 4 Emmys for the function throughout the sitcom’s run.
He was married for greater than 30 years to his “Homicide” co-star Ami Brabson. They had three sons.
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