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NEWS: Brooklyn Nine-Nine Star, Andre Braugher Dead at 61

A representative had confirmed his cause of death to be of an illness though the details are not available. By: Wee Yan Ling

Braugher was best known for his roles as police officers and had been awarded an Emmy for his portrayal of a police detective Frank Pembleton on the 1990s series, Homicide: Life on the Street.

He rose to fame when he acted in the TV series, Brooklyn Nine-Nine in 2013 as a deadpan police captain.

Throughout his career, he had been nominated for Emmy Awards 11 times and had attained the crown twice, which includes the Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie in 2006 for his role as Nick Atwater in the FX production, Thief. His Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series award came in 1998 for portraying Pembleton.

“I look up after all these decades of playing these characters, and I say to myself, it’s been so pervasive that I’ve been inside this storytelling, and I, too, have fallen prey to the mythology that’s been built up,” Braugher, who also played Det. Frank Pembleton on NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Street, mentioned.

"It’s almost like the air you breathe or the water that you swim in. It’s hard to see. But because there are so many cop shows on television, that’s where the public gets its information about the state of policing," he continued. "Cops breaking the law to quote, ‘defend the law,’ is a real terrible slippery slope. It has given license to the breaking of law everywhere, justified it and excused it. That’s something that we’re going to have to collectively address — all cop shows."

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