Andre Braugher, the Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor, has died at the age of 61

Andre Braugherwinner of the two Emmy Awards and teleserye star Killing and the irreverent sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Ninedied of a short illness.

The news was confirmed by Jennifer Allenrepresentative of the actor, who revealed to Different that the actor passed away on Monday without giving further details on the illness the actor was afflicted with. Braugher is survived by his wife Ami Brabson and his three children, he was 61 years old.

Last of four siblings, Andre Braugher he studied at Stanford University and later at the Juilliard School in New York. He made his debut in 1989 in the role of a detective Winston Blake in the teleserye Kojak; in the same year he also made his big screen film debut Men of Glory Of Edward Zwick.

In the following years he took part in many films, such as Slices of fear, Bus traveling, City of Angels – The city of angels And Frequency – The future is listeningbut the breakthrough came in 1993 when he played a detective Frank Pembleton in the teleserye Killinga role for which in 1998 he won an Emmy for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Later he participated in films Poseidon, The Cloud And Fantastic Four and the Silver Surfer where he played General Hager. In 2006 he took on the role of Nick Atwater in the FX miniseries Thief – The Professional, a series for which he won his second Emmy Awards. In the following years he took part in series like House of Dr. – Medical Division, Men of a Certain Age And Last resort.

In 2013 came the second role that established him in the general public, the Captain Raymond Holt in the crime sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the series created by Dan Goor and Michael Schur (The Office, Parks and Recreation, The Good Place) that won two Golden Globes. Not just an actor, in 2017 Braugher took part in the popular animated series BoJack Horseman Of Netflix dubbing Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitzthe governor of California.