LOS ANGELES — Andre Braugher, the Emmy-winning actor greatest recognized for his roles on the collection “Murder: Life on The Avenue” and “Brooklyn 99,” died Monday at age 61.

Braugher‘s publicist Jennifer Allen informed The Related Press the actor died after a brief sickness.

The Chicago-born actor had his breakthrough position in 1989’s “Glory,” starring alongside Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, who gained an Oscar for the movie about an all-Black military regiment through the the Civil Conflict.

Regardless of the half, he informed The Related Press in 2019 that he struggled to search out work in a Hollywood the place roles for African American actors have been “few and much between. Interval.”

However he would set up himself with the position of Det. Frank Pembleton, which he would play for seven seasons in “Murder: Life on the Avenue,” a gritty police drama on NBC based mostly on a e book by David Simon, who would go on to create “The Wire.”

He would win his first profession Emmy for the position, taking the trophy for lead actor in a drama collection in 1998.

He would win his second for lead actor in a miniseries or film for the 2006 restricted collection “Thief” on FX. Braugher can be nominated for 11 Emmys total.

Years later he would play a really totally different type of cop on a really totally different type of present, shifting to comedy as Capt. Ray Holt on the Andy Samberg-starring “Brooklyn 9-9.” It will run for eight seasons from 2013 to 2021 on Fox and NBC.

Although he’d dipped his toe into comedy within the TNT dramedy “Males of a Sure Age,” “Brooklyn 9-9” nonetheless represented a significant shift for Braugher, who was recognized for performing in darkish and heavy dramas.

“I simply felt as if it was a possibility to do one thing strikingly totally different from the remainder of my profession,” Braugher informed the AP. “I prefer it as a result of it simply merely opens up my thoughts and forces me to assume differently. So I feel I’ve turn into rather more kind of supple as an actor, and extra open to the unimaginable variety of potentialities of play a scene.”

He can be nominated for 4 Emmys through the run.

He was married for greater than 30 years to his “Murder” co-star Ami Brabson. That they had three sons.