Actor Andre Braugher, star of ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’, lifeless at 61

Two-time Emmy-winning actor Andre Braugher, star of the tv comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and the Nineteen Nineties police drama “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died on Monday after a short sickness, his publicist stated on Tuesday. He was 61.

Braugher starred alongside Andy Samberg within the police satire Brooklyn Nine-Nine for eight seasons from 2013 via 2021 within the position of Captain Ray Holt, for which he acquired 4 Emmy nominations and two Critics Choice awards for greatest supporting actor in a comedy sequence.

He had beforehand established himself as a dramatic actor taking part in Detective Frank Pembleton in Homicide from 1992 to 1998, a breakout position for which he gained his first Emmy in 1998, for lead actor in a drama sequence.

Braugher additionally gained an Emmy for lead actor in a miniseries in 2006 for the position of Nick Atwater in Thief.

In all, he had 11 Emmy nominations, in keeping with the Television Academy’s web site, and 67 performing credit, in keeping with IMDB.com.

Braugher was additionally a daily on stage on the New York Shakespeare Festival, successful an off-Broadway Obie Award in 1997 for the title position in Henry V. He additionally performed in Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night and As You Like It.

His most up-to-date movie position was as New York Times Editor Dean Baquet in She Said, a dramatisation of the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the sexual abuse and harassment of main figures in present enterprise and the media.

Born and raised in Chicago, Braugher earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.F.A. from Juilliard, in keeping with a biography offered by publicist Jennifer Allen.

He is survived by his spouse, actress Ami Brabson; sons Michael, Isaiah and John Wesley; brother Charles Jennings and his mom, Sally Braugher.