Andre Braugher's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Brooklyn Nine-Nine Captain Ray… Last Resort Captain Mar… Men of a Certain Age Owen The Andromeda Strain General Geo… Homicide: Life on the Street Det. Frank … Thief Nick Atwater Hack Marcellus W… Discovery Atlas Narrator Gideon's Crossing Dr. Ben Gid… The Jury Judge Loren…

Main Movie Roles

BIOGRAPHY:

Andre Braugher, the youngest of four kids born to heavy equipment operator Floyd Braugher and his wife Sally, grew up in Chicago, graduating from St. Ignatius College Preparatory School and moving on the a pre-med program at Stanford University. Shifting gears, he graduated from Stanford in 1984 with a B.A. in Theater and proceeded to New York's prestigious Julliard School, where in 1988, receiving his M.F.A., he was named the school's most outstanding theater student.

With such an education and that auspicious declaration under his belt Braugher found himself quite busy the very next year, in film (Glory, as Corporal Thomas Searles); and on TV, as himself in series The More You Knowand into 1990 in a series of five Kojak telepics, in the continuing role of the title character's sidekick, Detective Winston Blake, in addition to two supporting parts and one starring role in other TV movies.

The role by which he will most likely be best remembered (although his Nick Atwater in 2006's Thief is catching up in that regard) is that of Detective Frank Pembleton, the brilliant, antisocial and stressed out cop in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1998 -- plus a TV movie in 2000). Even amid a standout ensemble cast, Braugher stood out; the part earned him two Emmy nominations, one of which he won, and a passle of other awards, which would by no means be his last.

Busy on screens large and small, the versatile actor has not ignored the stage, starring in productions for the New York Shakespeare Festival: King John, Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V, which won him an Obie Award. In 1999 he directed and starred in a "A Love Song for Dad," a segment of TV's trilogy, Love Songs, and he has narrated, along with Lainie Kazan, an audiobook: James McBride's The Color of Water. Braugher has been busy at home as well; in 1991 he married writer/actress Ami Brabson, who portrayed his wife on Homicide, and they are currently residing in South Orange, New Jersey, with their two sons, Michael (born in 1992) and Isaiah (born in 1996).


TRIVIA:

• Last name is pronounced "brow-wer".
• Youngest of four children; father Floyd was a heavy-equipment operator and mother Sally a postal worker. He went to high school at St. Ignatius College Prep.
• Switched majors from Pre-Med to Drama in college. Graduating from Juilliard in 1988, he was acknowledged as the most outstanding theater student at graduation.
• Pulled out of 'Samuel L. Jackson' (qv)'s role in "Sphere" because he wanted to spend more time with his family.
• For the 1996 Shakespeare in the Park Festival in New York, Braugher played the title role in Shakespeare's Henry V. He performed the role from June 18th to July 14th at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park.
• Graduated from the Juilliard School.
• Wife 'Ami Brabson' (qv) had a recurring role as Andre's wife Mary on the "Homicide" series.
• Strong Shakespearean background includes roles in "Coriolanus," "King John," "Measure for Measure", "Richard II" and as Iago in "Othello". He won an Obie Award for his "Henry V" in 1996.