Benjamin Bratt
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Bratt in May 2010
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Benjamin George Bratt December 16, 1963 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Santa Barbara (B.F.A. 1986) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Spouse(s) | Talisa Soto (m. 2002) |
| Children | 2 |
Benjamin George Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor.
On television, Bratt portrayed NYPD Detective Rey Curtis on the NBC drama series Law & Order (for which he was nominated for the 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series), Dr. Jake Reilly on ABC's Private Practice (2011–2013), and Steve Navarro on Fox's 24: Live Another Day (2014).
In film, Bratt has appeared in Demolition Man (1993), Blood In Blood Out (1993), Traffic (2000), Piñero (2001), Miss Congeniality (2000), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and its sequel (2013), La Mission (2009), The Lesser Blessed (2012), Despicable Me 2 (2013), and Doctor Strange (2016).
Bratt was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Eldy (née Banda), a nurse, and Peter Bratt, Sr., a sheet metal worker. His mother is an Indigenous activist of the Quechua ethnic group; born in Peru, she moved to the United States at age 14. His father was American and had Austrian, English, and German ancestry. They married December 30, 1960 in San Francisco, but divorced in September 1967. Bratt's paternal grandfather, George Cleveland Bratt (March 5, 1893 – March 29, 1984), was a Broadway actor. He married Bratt's paternal grandmother, Wiltrude Hildner, on August 6, 1920 in Detroit, Michigan.
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