LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor who would grasp gritty drama for seven seasons on “Homicide: Life on The Street” and fashionable comedy for eight on “Brooklyn 99,” died Monday at 61.

Braugher died after a short sickness, his publicist Jennifer Allen instructed The Associated Press. No additional particulars got.

The Chicago-born actor would set up himself within the position of Det. Frank Pembleton, the lead position on “Homicide: Life on the Street,” a darkish police drama primarily based on a guide by David Simon, who would go on to create “The Wire.” The present, which centered on the murder unit of the Baltimore Police Department, ran for seven seasons on NBC, and would win important acclaim with Braugher as its dramatic middle and breakout star.

He would win his first profession Emmy for the position, taking the trophy for lead actor in a drama collection in 1998.

He feared he can be typecast after spending a lot of the Nineteen Nineties because the brooding detective.

“If I do it too long then I’ll stop really searching and probing inside my own work,″ he told the AP in 1998. ”That’s only a nice hazard. I believe I’m going to flee that lure, and get a chance to do some work that might be more difficult for me.”

That wouldn’t show to be an issue. He would go on to play a really completely different form of cop on a really completely different form of present, shifting to comedy as Capt. Ray Holt on the Andy Samberg-starring “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” It would run for eight seasons from 2013 to 2021 on Fox and NBC.

Though he’d dipped his toe into comedy within the TNT dramedy “Men of a Certain Age,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” nonetheless represented a significant shift for Braugher, who was identified for appearing in darkish and heavy dramas.

“I just felt as though it was an opportunity to do something strikingly different from the rest of my career,” Braugher instructed the AP in 2019. “I like it because it just simply opens up my mind and forces me to think in a different way. So I think I’ve become much more sort of supple as an actor, and more open to the incredible number of possibilities of how to play a scene.”

He can be nominated for 4 Emmys through the run.

Braugher’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” co-star Terry Crews was amongst these paying tribute to him Monday evening.

“Can’t believe you’re gone so soon,” Crews mentioned on Instagram. I’m honored to have identified you, laughed with you, labored with you and shared 8 wonderful years watching your irreplaceable expertise. This hurts.” He added, “You showed me what a life well-lived looked like.”

Braugher most just lately starred in “She Said,” the 2022 movie concerning the New York Times journalists who broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s years of sexually abusing ladies. Braugher performed Times editor Dean Baquet.

Born and raised in Chicago, Braugher graduated from Stanford and received a grasp of nice arts diploma from Juilliard.

He had his breakthrough position in 1989’s “Glory,” starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, who received an Oscar for the movie about an all-Black Army regiment through the the Civil War.

Braugher performed the bookish, frightened union corporal Thomas Searles within the movie.

“I conceived that character as heroic, but I got a lot of scripts after that where I’m constantly crying,” he instructed the AP in 1993.

Despite the half, he instructed the AP in 2019 that earlier than “Homicide” he struggled to seek out work in a Hollywood the place roles for African American actors had been “few and far between, Period.”

Braugher received his second Emmy for lead actor in a miniseries or film for the 2006 restricted collection “Thief” on FX. Braugher can be nominated for 11 Emmys total.

His different movie credit included “Primal Fear” and “Get on the Bus,” and his different TV credit included “Hack,” “Gideon’s Crossing” and “The Good Fight.”

He additionally acted ceaselessly on the stage, usually doing Shakespeare. He received an Obie Award for enjoying the title position in “Henry V” at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the place he additionally appeared in “Measure for Measure,” “Twelfth Night” and “As You Like It.”

Braugher was married for greater than 30 years to his “Homicide” co-star Ami Brabson. He can also be survived by sons (*61*), Isaiah and John Wesley, his brother Charles Jennings and his mom Sally Braugher.