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.
Biography
Early life
Bratt was born in
San Francisco, California, the son of nurse Eldy (
née Banda) and a sheet metal worker father.
[Benjamin Bratt Biography (1963-)][[1]] Bratt's father, Peter W Bratt, was an American of German and English descent
[Benjamin Pratt - Brief Article] and his mother is a
Peruvian Indian activist; she was born in
Peru and moved to the U.S. at age fourteen.
[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] They married 30 Dec 1960 in San Francisco,
[Caliornia Marriage Index 1960-1985] but divorced in September of 1967.
[Caliornia Divorce Index 1966-1984] 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.
[Benjamin Bratt gets personal][Benjamin Bratt Biography on Yahoo! Movies][Michigan Marriages 1868-1925]
