‘Murder’, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Actor 61 years old – Deadline

Jeff Lipsky

André Braugher is dead. The two-time Emmy-winning star of the series included Murder: Life on the Road, People of an Age and Brooklyn Nine-Nine Braugher was 61 years old, his first movie came with Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington in the Ed Zwick directed. Glorydied Monday after a short illness.

While Braugher laced his career with comedies, many will remember him for his terrific portrayal of Detective Frank Pembleton on the NBC drama. Murder: Life on the Road. Put him in the box, sweat it out and scare the suspected criminals in the research room, and you saw the weekly cycle, as it appeared on television at that time. He won an Emmy for that show that he hosted from 1992-98 and Killing people there he also met his wife, the actress Ami Brabson. Along with him, Braugher is survived by his sons Michael, Isaiah and John Wesley, as well as his brother Charles Jennings and his mother Sally Braugher. He also leaves WME agent Brandt Joel, attorney Keith Klevan and his publicist Jennifer Allen of Viewpoint, who represented him for the past 25 years.

He won an Emmy in 1998, as well as two Television Critics Association Awards in 1997 and 1998.

Born and raised in Chicago — he received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Juilliard — Braugher recently co-founded the He said, the movie retelling of the New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohy, whose reporting led to the indictment of Harvey Weinstein and sparked the #MeToo movement. He introduced Dean Baquet, the Times’ Executive Editor who saw the two journalists.

Braugher will appear in the Netflix film Residence as his next project. He also starred in the sixth and final season of Paramount’s legal drama + The Good War, with Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald. He appeared as a lawyer with the rain Ri’Chard Lane.

For eight seasons, Braugher starred alongside Andy Samberg in the comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nineand he won two Critics Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and received four Emmy Awards for his role as Captain Ray Holt in the series.

It was Braugher before those signs on the TNT show Men of a Special Age with Ray Romano and Scott Bakula. He received two Emmy nominations for his role as a concerned diabetic father on the show. He also enjoyed the 2008 sci-fi miniseries The Andromeda Strain with Benjamin Bratt and Eric McCormack for A&E.

He won the Emmy for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Mini-Series and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his breakout role in the series. Steal, which aired on FX. He also appeared on TNT’s original four-hour talk show Lot of Salem based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King. Before that film, he appeared in the Showtime Original Film A Soldier’s Girl.

Braugher appeared in the CBS series Hack opposite David Morse and in the Showtime Original Film 10,000 black men named George with Charles Dutton and Mario Van Peebles for director Robert Townsend. He served as executive producer on the latter film, and received an NAACP Award nomination for his role as A. Philip Randolph. He also enjoyed the ABC drama series Gideon’s Crossreceiving Emmy and Golden Globe noms for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Dr. Ben Gideon.

Braugher made his directorial debut in one film of the Showtime trilogy Love Songwhere he also appeared, and he appeared in the TNT telefilm Glory Glory (1999) for director Steve James (Dream Hoop).

Braugher received a second Emmy nomination in 1996 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Mini-Series for his work on the award-winning HBO production of Peabody. The Tuskegee Airmen.

Her other television credits include the ABC drama series End Again; reprized his Emmy-winning role as Detective Frank Pembleton in the two-hour NBC Special Murder: The Movie (2000); the title role c The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990); HBO’s Someone’s Gotta Take the Picture (1990); and NBC Massacre in Mississippi (1990). He began his career on television as the veteran Telly Savalas in movies based on the original. Kojak sequence.

In addition to Braugher’s success on the small screen, audiences have seen him star in many film roles. He played a role in the film Immaculate Spirit (2021); he co-starred in the movie Baytown Outlaws (2012); join in Salt (2010) opposite Angelina Jolie for director Phillip Noyce; join in passengers (2008) opposite Anne Hathaway; in Frank Darabont The fog (2007) based on King’s story; inside Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007); in the thriller Poseidon (2006); inside Duets (2000) opposite Gwyneth Paltrow for director Bruce Paltrow; in the independent sector A Good Way to Die (2000); and with Dennis Quaid in the critically acclaimed film Multiply it (2000). Before that he appeared with Alec Baldwin in the independent film Thick as Thieves (1999), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and later aired on HBO. He was part of a cast that included Jeff Daniels, Gary Sinise, Joan Allen and Anna Paquin in Jim Stern’s directorial. All the Wrath (1999), with stars in it City of Angels (1998) with Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan and Dennis Franz.

Other technical changes include First Fear (1996) with Richard Gere, which marked his first collaboration with Multiply it director Gregory Hoblit; Spike Lee’s Get on the bus (1996); and Glory (1989), the Oscar-winning story of America’s first unit of Black soldiers during the Civil War.

On the live stage, Braugher appeared at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Measure for Measure; Twelfth Night; in the title office of Henry V, for which he received an Obie Award; and in As You Like It.

At Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, he did it inside The Way of the World and Shakespeare Richard II and Coriolanus. He played Iago in the Folger Shakespeare Festival production of Othello and perform the title role c Macbeth for the Philadelphia Drama Guild.

He also enjoyed the Manhattan Theater Club’s New York premiere of Matthew Lopez’s The Scoundrel.

Braugher presented Oni Faida Lampley’s first exhibition in New York Strong Titty along with his wife Ami Brabson, who appeared in the lead role. Inspired by Lampley’s experience, Strong Titty follows a woman whose diagnosis of breast cancer led her to learn to fight the disease, his family and his village.

He also appeared in the first world of Tell Them Your Kids by Julia Doolittle at the South Orange Performing Arts Center.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Harlem Classic Museumwhere Braugher served on the board.