Andre Braugher, Emmy-Winning Actor Who Starred In ‘Homicide’ and ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’, Dies at 61

Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor finest recognized for his roles on the sequence “Homicide: Life on The Street” and “Brooklyn 99,” died Monday at age 61. Braugher’s publicist Jennifer Allen confirmed his dying to the commerce publication Variety.

The Chicago-born actor had his breakthrough function in 1989’s “Glory,” starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, who received an Oscar for the movie about an all-Black military regiment through the Civil War.

Despite the half, he instructed The Associated Press in 2019 that he struggled to search out work in 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.”

Years later he would play a really completely different sort of cop on a really completely different sort of present, shifting to comedy as Capt. Ray Holt on the Andy Samberg-starring Fox sequence “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” It would run for eight seasons from 2013 to 2021.

Braugher received two profession Emmys from 11 nominations.

He was married for greater than 30 years to his “Homicide” co-star Ami Brabson. They had three sons.

His dying was first reported by Deadline.

(*61*)Rest in peace, Andre Braugher! 

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