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Benjamin Bratt
Benjamin Bratt at the premiere of The Great Raid, 2005
Born	Benjamin G. Bratt December 16, 1963 (1963-12-16) (age 45) San Francisco, California
Spouse(s)	Talisa Soto (2002-present) Daughter Sophia Son Mateo

Benjamin G. Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor. He is most famous for his acting on the tv show Law & Order; and in the movies Blood in Blood Out, Miss Congeniality, Traffic, and Piñero. He currently stars on the A&E Network drama The Cleaner.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Schooling 1.3 Personal life 2 Career 3 Filmography 3.1 Movies 3.2 Television series 4 References 5 External links

Biography

Early life

Bratt was born in San Francisco, California, the son of nurse Eldy (née Banda) and a sheet metal worker father.¹² Bratt's father, Peter W Bratt, was an American of German and English descent³ and his mother is a Peruvian Indian activist; she was born in Peru and moved to the U.S. at age fourteen.⁴⁵⁶ They married 30 Dec 1960 in San Francisco,⁷ but divorced in September of 1967.⁸ Bratt's paternal grandfather, George Cleveland Bratt (05 Mar 1893-29 Mar 1984), was a Broadway actor who married his grandmother Wiltrude Hildner on 06 Aug 1920 in Detroit, Michigan.⁹¹⁰¹¹

As a child, Bratt's mother took Bratt along with his siblings to participate in the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz.¹² Today Bratt is an active supporter of Native American causes such as the American Indian College Fund¹² and We Shall Remain, a ground breaking mini-series and provocative multi-media project, narrated by Bratt, that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history from PBS's acclaimed series American Experience.¹³

His brother, Peter Bratt, wrote and directed Follow Me Home, casting Benjamin as Abel.

Has been a strong supporter and board member of San Francisco Bay Area's Friendship House Association of American Indians and Native American Health Center for years.¹⁴

Schooling

In San Francisco, California, Bratt attended Lowell High School, where he developed his dramatic and oratory skills as a member of the Lowell Forensic Society. Bratt earned a B.F.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also joined Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. Although accepted into the M.F.A. program at the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California, he left before receiving his degree (to star in the television series Juarez, which never aired).

Personal life

In 1998 he began dating Julia Roberts. He escorted her to the March 25, 2001 Academy Awards ceremony at which she won an Oscar for Best Actress. Three months later in June 2001 they announced that they were no longer a couple.¹⁵

Less than a year later he married his pregnant actress girlfriend Talisa Soto on April 13, 2002, in San Francisco. The two met while filming Piñero. Their first child, daughter Sophia Rosalinda Bratt, was born on December 6, 2002. Their second child, son Mateo Bravery Bratt, was born on October 3, 2005, in Los Angeles.

Career

Bratt's best-known role has been that of Det. Rey Curtis on the television show Law & Order. In 1999, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his work on the series. His more popular films include Miss Congeniality, Blood in Blood out and Traffic. On June 23, 2009, Bratt appeared on The View to promote The Cleaner. But before he was completely in the lime-light, he played on an episode of the hit series "Charmed" as a demon, where the main stars were Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, and Shannen Doherty.

Filmography

Movies

• One Good Cop (1991)
• Shadowhunter (TV ) (1993)
• Demolition Man (1993)
• Blood In Blood Out (1993)
• Clear and Present Danger (1994)
• Texas (1994)
• The River Wild (1994)
• Follow Me Home (1996)
• Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998) (TV)
• The Next Best Thing (2000)
• Red Planet (2000)
• Miss Congeniality (2000)
• Traffic (2000)
• After the Storm (2001)
• Piñero (2001)
• Abandon (2002)
• The Woodsman (2004)
• Catwoman (2004)
• Thumbsucker (2005)
• The Great Raid (2005)
• Love in the Time of Cholera (2008)
• Trucker (2008)
• La Mission (2009)

Television series

• Nasty Boys(1989-1990)
• Law & Order (1990, 1995-1999)
• E-Ring (2005)
• The Andromeda Strain (2008 miniseries)
• The Cleaner (2008-present)¹⁶
• We Shall Remain (2009)

References

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External links

• Benjamin Bratt at the Internet Movie Database
• Benjamin Bratt at Allmovie
• Benjamin Bratt profile at NNDB.
• Rare 1989-1990 Footage of Benjamin Bratt Behind the Scenes of Dick Wolf's "Nasty Boys"
• Article "Emmy-Nominated Actor Benjamin Bratt"