Andre Braugher
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Veteran actor and Emmy Award winner Andre Braugher’s cause of death has been revealed to be due to lung cancer.
The entertainment world has been sending their tributes to the late actor Andre Braugher, who died on Monday at his home in New Jersey. At the time, the cause of death for the veteran performer was not released to the public, with representatives only citing that he dealt with “a brief illness”. On Thursday (December 14), his publicist Jennifer Allen informed press outlets that Braugher’s death was due to lung cancer.
Braugher was known for adamantly keeping his private life private, only opening up about it in a thorough interview for the New York Times Magazine in 2014. In discussing his life away from the camera (Braugher leaves behind his wife, actress Ami Brabson, and three sons along with brother Charles Jennings and his mother Sally Braugher), he stated that he had “stumbling blocks” and that he had given up smoking and drinking alcohol years beforehand. “I won’t go into details, but I have not always been at the top of my game, and that has a cost,” he said before remarking, “There won’t be a memoir.”
The 61-year-old Braugher was best known for his intense and stoic roles, getting his breakthrough in the 1989 drama Glory alongside Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. From there, he went on to play Detective Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street, the hit NBC police procedural by Barry Levinson that ran for seven seasons earning Braugher the first of his two Emmy Awards. He would be nominated 11 times overall, with four of them for his role as Captain Raymond Holt on the Fox and NBC comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The Chicago native was also an acclaimed theater actor who cherished Shakespearean roles.
His most recent role was as New York Times editor-in-chief Dean Baquet in She Said, the 2022 film focusing on journalists who broke the story of disgraced film executive Harvey Weinstein’s years of sexually abusing women. The family of Andre Braugher has asked that in place of flowers, donations should be made to the Classical Theater of Harlem, where he was vice chairman of the board. The theater’s Associate Artistic Director, Carl Cofield, shared a photo of himself with Braugher on Instagram, writing: “Andrè you were the light for so many of us.”
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Andre Braugher, Emmy Award-winner and star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine has passed away suddenly, surprising the entertainment industry.
On Tuesday night (December 12), it was confirmed that Andre Braugher had passed away. His publicist, Jennifer Allen, stated that Braugher had died after undergoing a brief illness. She did not elaborate on what that illness was. Braugher was 61 years old. His passing was met with grief by David Simon, who remembered the Homicide: Life On The Street actor in a post on X, formerly Twitter: “I’ve worked with a lot of wonderful actors. I’ll never work with one better.”
Braugher rose to fame after a breakthrough role in the acclaimed 1989 film Glory, starring as Corporal Thomas Searles of the Union Army’s all-Black 54th Regiment of Massachusetts during the Civil War. The actor would build upon that success as the intense Baltimore Detective Frank Pembleton in Homicide: Life On The Street. Braugher would win the first of his two Emmy Awards for his role, earning him a reputation as an actor with tremendous presence. He would go on to star in numerous films including Spike Lee’s Get On The Bus and HBO’s The Tuskegee Airmen. Braugher also made his mark in television series including House, The Good Fight, Men Of A Certain Age starring opposite Ray Romano, and Thief. That FX crime miniseries gave him his second Emmy.
The actor gained a whole new audience when he turned to comedy, starring as Captain Raymond Holt, the stern but hilarious precinct commander in the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Co-star Terry Crews offered his heartfelt condolences in an Instagram post. “Can’t believe you’re gone so soon. I’m honored to have known you, laughed with you, worked with you and shared 8 glorious years watching your irreplaceable talent. This hurts. You left us too soon,” he wrote.
Born in Chicago’s West Side on July 1st, 1962, Braugher attended St. Ignatius Prep and earned a scholarship to Stanford University. Noting that he could’ve been a bigger success, Braugher remarked on it with perspective noting his choice to focus on his family life. “It’s been an interesting career, but I think it could have been larger,” he said to HuffPost. “I think it could have spanned more disciplines: directing, producing, all these other different things. But it would have been at the expense of my own life.”
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