Actor Andre Braugher, a Chicago native who played very different police roles on “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” died Monday at age 61.

He died after a brief illness, his rep told the Hollywood trades, declining to be more specific.

Braugher was an 11-time Emmy nominee, winning in 1998 for his “Homicide” work as Detective Frank Pembleton and in 2006 as lead actor on the FX series “Thief.”

His other TV work included the 2009-11 TNT series “Men of a Certain Age.”

Braugher grew up on the West Side near Pulaski and Roosevelt roads and attended the prestigious St. Ignatius College Prep.

“I didn’t know it was a rough neighborhood,” he told the Sun-Times in 1998. “I didn’t know we were poor until I went to high school. Then I was like, `Oh, they’re rich and we’re poor.’ “

He earned a four-year engineering scholarship to Stanford University, where he fell in with the theater program.