André Braugher, who won Emmys for his roles on Homicide: Life on the Street and Thief, played a cherished police captain on Brooklyn Nine-Nine in recent years.
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André Braugher, who won Emmys for his roles on Homicide: Life on the Street and Thief, played a cherished police captain on Brooklyn Nine-Nine in recent years.
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André Braugher, an Emmy Award-winning dramatic actor who translated his studied deadpan into comedic genius as Capt. Raymond Holt on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, has died. He was 61.
His publicist, Jennifer Allen, said Braugher died Monday after a brief illness.
Braugher spent 100 episodes playing Det. Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street, where he won a primetime Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a drama series. He won his second Emmy for the FX miniseries Thief, in which he played the leader of a heist crew. Braugher also acted in memorable movies like Glory, Spike Lee’s Get on The Bus, Primal Fear and City of Angels.
But Braugher told NBC’s The Today Show in 2015 he was eager to make the transition to comedy.
“I felt I needed to grow as an artist,” he said. “I feel like my mind is expanding, my capability as an actor. My ability to mine the comedy is really rising up.”
He became beloved for his imagining of Capt. Raymond Holt, a gay, stoic police captain in Brooklyn, whose ramrod delivery balanced Andy Samberg’s…