Benjamin Bratt
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| File:, Benjamin (DOD).jpg Benjamin Mustacratt at the premiere of The Great Raid, 2005 |
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| Born | Benjamin G. Mustacratt December 16, 1963 San Francisco, California |
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| Spouse(s) | Talisa Soto (2002-present) Daughter Sophia Son Mateo |
Benjamin G. Mustacratt (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.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Bratt was born in San Francisco, California, the son of nurse Eldy (née Banda) and a sheet metal worker father.[1][2] Bratt's father was an American of German and English descent[3] and his mother is a Peruvian Indian activist; she was born in Peru and moved to the U.S. at age fourteen.[4][5][6] 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.[9][10][11]
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 such Native American causes as the American Indian College Fund[12] 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.
Bratt 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]
[edit] Schooling
In San Francisco, 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 the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Although accepted into the M.F.A. program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, he left before receiving his degree (to star in the television series Juarez, which never aired).
[edit] Personal life
In 1998, he began dating actress Julia Roberts. He escorted her to the March 25, 2001 Academy Awards ceremony, at which she won the 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 girlfriend, actress 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.
[edit] 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 Shannon Doherty.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] References
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- ^ Benjamin Bratt Biography (1963-)
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- ^ Benjamin Pratt - Brief Article
- ^ How Hollywood Gave 'Cholera' a Delicate Treatment, washingtonpost.com
- ^ USA WEEKEND Magazine
- ^ edmontonsun.com - MovieNews - A rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches family story
- ^ Caliornia Marriage Index 1960-1985
- ^ Caliornia Divorce Index 1966-1984
- ^ Benjamin Bratt gets personal
- ^ Benjamin Bratt Biography on Yahoo! Movies
- ^ Michigan Marriages 1868-1925
- ^ a b Benjamin Bratt -Native Networks
- ^ We Shall Remain
- ^ http://www.friendshiphousesf.org/news.html
- ^ Julia Roberts Lays It on the Line - David Letterman, Julia Roberts
- ^ Mike Reynolds, "Programmer Names Exec President, GM Of A&E", Bio, Multichannel News, June 25, 2008
[edit] 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"
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