Veteran
actor
and
Emmy
Award
winner
Andre
Braugher’s
cause
of
death
has
been
revealed
to
be
due
to
lung
cancer.
The
entertainment
world
has
been
sending
their
tributes
to
the
late
actor
Andre
Braugher,
who
died
on
Monday
at
his
home
in
New
Jersey.
At
the
time,
the
cause
of
death
for
the
veteran
performer
was
not
released
to
the
public,
with
representatives
only
citing
that
he
dealt
with
“a
brief
illness”.
On
Thursday
(December
14),
his
publicist
Jennifer
Allen
informed
press
outlets
that
Braugher’s
death
was
due
to
lung
cancer.
Braugher
was
known
for
adamantly
keeping
his
private
life
private,
only
opening
up
about
it
in
a
thorough
interview
for
the
New
York
Times
Magazine
in
2014.
In
discussing
his
life
away
from
the
camera
(Braugher
leaves
behind
his
wife,
actress
Ami
Brabson,
and
three
sons
along
with
brother
Charles
Jennings
and
his
mother
Sally
Braugher),
he
stated
that
he
had
“stumbling
blocks”
and
that
he
had
given
up
smoking
and
drinking
alcohol
years
beforehand.
“I
won’t
go
into
details,
but
I
have
not
always
been
at
the
top
of
my
game,
and
that
has
a
cost,”
he
said
before
remarking,
“There
won’t
be
a
memoir.”
The
61-year-old
Braugher
was
best
known
for
his
intense
and
stoic
roles,
getting
his
breakthrough
in
the
1989
drama
Glory
alongside
Denzel
Washington
and
Morgan
Freeman.
From
there,
he
went
on
to
play
Detective
Frank
Pembleton
on
Homicide:
Life
on
the
Street,
the
hit
NBC
police
procedural
by
Barry
Levinson
that
ran
for
seven
seasons
earning
Braugher
the
first
of
his
two
Emmy
Awards.
He
would
be
nominated
11
times
overall,
with
four
of
them
for
his
role
as
Captain
Raymond
Holt
on
the
Fox
and
NBC
comedy
series
Brooklyn
Nine-Nine.
The
Chicago
native
was
also
an
acclaimed
theater
actor
who
cherished
Shakespearean
roles.
His
most
recent
role
was
as
New
York
Times
editor-in-chief
Dean
Baquet
in
She
Said,
the
2022
film
focusing
on
journalists
who
broke
the
story
of
disgraced
film
executive
Harvey
Weinstein’s
years
of
sexually
abusing
women.
The
family
of
Andre
Braugher
has
asked
that
in
place
of
flowers,
donations
should
be
made
to
the
Classical
Theater
of
Harlem,
where
he
was
vice
chairman
of
the
board.
The
theater’s
Associate
Artistic
Director,
Carl
Cofield,
shared
a
photo
of
himself
with
Braugher
on
Instagram,
writing:
“Andrè
you
were
the
light
for
so
many
of
us.”