1. Andre Braugher won two Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards.
27 Facts About Andre Braugher
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Andre Braugher transitioned his career into television, gaining roles in Kojak, The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson, and The Tuskegee Airmen, followed by leading roles in the ABC medical series Gideon's Crossing, the CBS crime series Hack, the FX crime miniseries Thief, and the TNT comedy series Men of a Certain Age.
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Andre Braugher had supporting roles in series such as The Good Fight, House, New Girl, and BoJack Horseman.
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Andre Keith Braugher was born in Chicago on July 1,1962, the son of Sally and Floyd Braugher, a postal worker and heavy-equipment operator.
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Andre Braugher had three older siblings and was raised in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago.
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Andre Braugher attended St Ignatius College Prep for high school and earned a scholarship to attend Stanford University.
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Andre Braugher then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division, graduating in 1988.
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Andre Braugher played Kojak's sidekick in the late 1980s ABC television film revival of Kojak.
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Andre Braugher subsequently moved on to a role on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street as Detective Frank Pembleton, a self-righteous, fiery, unyielding, Jesuit-educated police detective.
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Andre Braugher won Television Critics Association awards for individual achievement in drama in 1997 and 1998.
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Andre Braugher was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and 1998, winning in the latter year.
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Andre Braugher left Homicide after its sixth season but returned for the reunion television film.
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Andre Braugher co-starred in the films City of Angels, Frequency, and Poseidon.
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In 2002, Andre Braugher narrated the award-winning, PBS-broadcast documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, produced by Unity Productions Foundation.
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Andre Braugher narrated The Murder of Emmett Till for PBS.
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Andre Braugher played Detective Marcellus Washington in the TV series Hack from 2002 to 2004.
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Andre Braugher portrayed General Hager in the 2007 film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
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Andre Braugher appeared in the TNT series Men of a Certain Age, for which he was nominated twice as Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
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Andre Braugher took supporting roles in the science fiction film The Mist, the mystery film Passengers, and the action thriller Salt.
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Marilyn Stasio of Variety described the play as "genuinely moving and Andre Braugher captures the moment with his thrilling evocation of Simon's pride and joy and hope".
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Andre Braugher narrated the introduction to the Olympic Games on NBC from 2006 to 2010.
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Andre Braugher narrated James Patterson's Alex Cross book Cross Fire.
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In 2017, Andre Braugher had a recurring role in season four of the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman as California Governor Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz.
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In 1991, Andre Braugher married actress Ami Brabson, who later appeared as Frank Pembleton's wife Mary in Homicide: Life on the Street.
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Andre Braugher died on December 11,2023, at the age of 61.
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Andre Braugher's death was attributed to lung cancer, with which he had been diagnosed a few months prior.
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Andre Braugher had previously been a smoker, but quit in 2010.