The two-time Emmy Award-winning actor, Andre Keith Braugher died on December 11, 2023, at the age of 61, following a brief illness.

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At the time of his death, Braugher married actress Ami Brabson, who co-starred with him in Homicide: Life on the Street. They had three sons, Michael, Isaiah, and John Wesley, and lived in New Jersey.

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 was raised in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago’s West Side.

Braugher’s first film role was in the 1989 film Glory as Thomas Searles, a free, educated black man from the North who joins the first black regiment in the Union Army. He played Kojak’s sidekick in the late 1980s ABC television film revival of Kojak.

Braugher had a recurring role as defense attorney Bayard Ellis on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and starred as the lead character, Capt. Marcus Chaplin, in ABC’s military drama TV series Last Resort.

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