Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andre Braugher, who won an Emmy, passes away
At the age of sixty-one, actor Andre Braugher, who won an Emmy for his work on Brooklyn 99 and Homicide: Life on the Street, passed away on Monday. The Associated Press was informed by publicist Jennifer Allen that actor Braugher passed away following a brief illness.
Glory (1989), starring Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman (who won an Oscar for the picture about an all-Black army regiment during the Civil War), gave the Chicago-born actor his big break.
Despite the statement, he admitted to The Associated Press in 2019 that he had trouble getting hired in Hollywood, where there were "few and far between" opportunities for African American performers. However, he would make a name for himself playing Det. Frank Pembleton in the grittier NBC police drama Homicide: Life on the Street, which aired for seven seasons. David Simon, the man who would later create The Wire, wrote the book that inspired the series.
Years later, he would play a completely different kind of police officer on an even more different kind of television program, transforming into comedy as Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Capt. Ray Holt, starring Andy Samberg. Fox and NBC would air it for eight seasons between 2013 and 2021.
For Braugher, who was accustomed to playing dark, serious dramas, Brooklyn Nine-Nine marked a significant departure, even if he had dabbled in comedy in the TNT dramedy Men of a Certain Age.
