61-year-old actor Andre Brower died on Monday after a short illness.

He became widely known for his role in the series Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Captain Raymond Holt for which he won two Critics Choice Awards for supporting actor and four Emmy nominations.

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He also starred in the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street from 1992 to 1998 for which he won an Emmy in 1998 as Detective Frank Pembleton.

He was nominated 11 times for an Emmy

Brower was born in 1962 in Chicago and was the youngest of four children in his family, he studied theater on a scholarship at Stanford and took acting classes at the Juilliard School for drama. His first film role was in the 1989 film Glory in which he played a soldier in the first African-American regiments of the American Civil War. Brower was nominated 11 times for an Emmy.