Actor André Braugher died on Monday at the age of 61.
Braugher died after a brief illness, according to Deadline. He was well known for his roles on multiple television shows such as “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Men of a Certain Age,” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” He won two Emmy awards; his first in 1998 for his role in “Homicide” and another for the 2006 miniseries “Thief.”
He also appeared in a number of films throughout his career, beginning with “Glory” in 1989, a story about a unit of black soldiers in the Union Army during the Civil war. Braugher acted alongside Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington. In his next appearance on screen, Braugher starred as the first black man to play in Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson, in the film “The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson.”
He went from “The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson” to giving an Emmy…
