Andre Braugher

At 61 years old, Andre Braugher has this physical status:

Andre Keith Braugher (born July 1, 1962) is an American actor.

He is most known for his television role as Frank Pembleton on the series Homicide: Life on the Street and its companion television film Homicide: The Movie, as well as his roles as Owen Thoreau Jr. on the television series Men of a Certain Age and Raymond Holt on the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Braugher has received two Golden Globe Award nominations and ten Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning two. In film, he is best known for his supporting roles in many successful films such as Glory (1989), Primal Fear (1996), City of Angels (1998), Frequency (2000), Poseidon (2006), The Mist (2007), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), and The Gambler (2014).

Early life

Andre Keith Braugher was born in Chicago on July 1, 1962, the youngest of four children born to Sally, a postal worker, and Floyd Braugher, a heavy equipment operator. He attended St. Ignatius College Prep and graduated from Stanford University with a BA in theatre in 1984. He then attended the Juilliard School's Drama Division, graduating in 1988.

Personal life

In 1991, Braugher married actress Ami Brabson.

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Career

Thomas Searles, a young black man from the North who joins the first black regiment in the Union Army, was Braugher's first film appearance. In the late 1980s ABC television film revival of Kojak, he appeared as Kojak's sidekick. Detective Frank Pembleton, a self-righteous, fiery, unyielding, Jesuit-educated police detective, grew 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. In 1997 and 1998, Braugher received Television Critics Association awards for individual achievement in drama. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and 1998, winning in the latter year. After Homicide's sixth season, he returned for the reunion television film. He has appeared in the films City of Angels, Frequency, and Poseidon.

People named him as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1997.

Braugher appeared in Henry V's 1996 production of Henry V, for which he received an Obie Award, as part of the Shakespeare in the Park series at the Delacorte Theatre in New York City's Central Park. In 2000, he appeared as Ben Gideon in the series Gideon's Crossing, which lasted for just one season. Braugher narrated the award-winning, PBS-broadcast documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, which was released by Unity Productions Foundation and recently re-released. For PBS, he narrated The Murder of Emmett Till. In the television series Hack, he played Detective Marcellus Washington from 2002 to 2004. Braugher starred as Nick Atwater in the FX Networks miniseries Thief in 2006, receiving his second Emmy for his work. In the 2007 film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, he played General Hager.

Braugher appeared on the television show House, M.D. Dr. Darryl Nolan, a psychiatrist who helps House patients recover from their heroin use to Vicodin, is a doctor who assists in the recovery of House from Vicodin's addiction. He 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. In the animated film Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, he also played Darkseid.

For a limited run from January to March 2011, Braugher appeared in The Whipping Man, off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club. On NBC from 2006 to 2010, Earl Jones narrated the introduction to the Olympic Games, succeeding James Earl Jones in the role. The Alex Patterson book Cross Fire (2010) by Braugher narrated James Patterson's Alex Patterson's Cross Fire (2010).

On Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, he appears as the lead protagonist, Capt. Marcus Chaplin stars in ABC's military drama TV series Last Resort, written by Marcus Chaplin. In season 4 of Netflix's animated film BoJack Horseman, Braugher appeared as California Governor Jim Carr. Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz is a film starring Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz. Raymond Holt, the precinct captain of the Golden Globe-winning television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, appeared as the precinct captain. He has been selected for four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his appearance in Brooklyn Nine Nine.

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