Andre Braugher

Andre Braugher is, to me, the gold standard for range. The same actor who made Frank Pembleton's interrogation scenes in Homicide feel like moral combat later turned Captain Holt in Brooklyn Nine-Nine into one of television's great deadpan creations. That is not luck; it is Stanford-trained, stage-honed discipline applied to wildly different registers. Two Emmys barely cover it. What I admire most is the authority he carried — he never begged for the audience's attention, he simply commanded it. His death in 2023 left a gap in American television that I do not expect to see filled anytime soon.

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Name (English)

Andre Braugher

Name (Japanese)

アンドレ・ブラウアー

Reading

あんどれ・ぶらうあー

Born

July 1, 1962 – December 11, 2023

Origin

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation

actor / stage actor / television actor / film actor / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Tiger

University

Stanford University

Awards & achievements

• 1998 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
• 2006 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/andrebraugher/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre%20Braugher
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463397

Tags

• Illinois
• actor
• stage actor
• television actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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