Award-Winning Actor Passes Away at 61 after Brief Illness

(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Hollywood is mourning the loss of one of their most talented actors. Andre Braugher, the intense television and movie actor who won an Emmy for “Homicide: Life on the Street” and won the hearts of viewers in the comedy series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” passed away at age 61 Monday due to a brief illness, his publicist Jennifer Allen told CNN. Braugher was in a ton of movies and television series after a stunning debut as a sensitive soldier in the 1989 film “Glory,” where Denzel Washington won an Oscar about a unit of Black soldiers during the Civil War. Alternating between theater, film and television, the Julliard-trained actor played historical figures such as Jackie Robinson, A. Philip Randolph and Tuskegee Airmen commander Benjamin O. Davis Jr., all in TV movies; showed off his villainous side as a manipulative Iago in a production of “Othello”; and brought an understated gravitas to his portrayal of Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, in the movie drama “She Said” (2022), about the paper’s investigation into sexual-abuse accusations against Harvey Weinstein. In the “Homicide” series, he played the philosophical, tightly wound detective Frank Pembleton. As Pembleton, Mr....