Andre Braugher died Monday after a brief battle with lung cancer, his publicist revealed on Thursday.
Braugher’s longtime publicist Jennifer Allen said the Emmy-winning actor died “several months” after he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was 61.
Braugher was best known for his role in the television drama Homicide: Life on the Street.
The actor kept his diagnosis hidden from the public. He told the New York Times Magazine in 2014 that he’d “stopped drinking alcohol and smoking years ago.”
“Turbo cancer” is a term coined by anti-vaxxers to describe people vaccinated with mRNA who are then diagnosed with aggressive, fast-growing cancers. They typically die within months of being diagnosed.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. Signs and symptoms include a persistent cough that doesn’t go away, coughing up blood, chest pain, hoarseness, unexplained weight loss, headache, joint pain and fatigue.
Braugher’s first film role was in the 1989 war drama Glory alongside actors Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington. He also starred in Primal Fear (1996) and the TV movie The Tuskegee Airmen (1995).
The two-time Emmy winner was set to star in the Netflix show Residence, scheduled to begin filming in early 2024.
Braugher appeared in numerous film and TV projects, including films Get On the Bus (1996), Frequency (2000), The Mist (2007), and the hit comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, for which he won two Critics Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
He also received two Emmy nominations for his role as a sickly diabetic in the critically acclaimed TNT series Men of a Certain Age.
Braugher leaves behind sons Michael, Isaiah and John Wesley, his wife, actress Ami Brabson, as well as his brother Charles Jennings and his mother Sally Braugher.
