Benjamin Bratt
Benjamin Bratt
Benjamin George Brattis an American actor. He is best known for his role as 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. He has also appeared in the films Demolition Man, Blood In Blood Out, Traffic, Piñero, Miss Congeniality, Catwoman, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, La Mission, The Lesser Blessed, and Despicable Me 2...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth16 December 1963
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I'm going to have more kids.
I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.
I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.
Just be loving. You also have to recognize that you need to take the focus off yourself and put it on your children to give them a proper start in life.
I find that most of us actors can't stand ourselves in any form.
I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.
On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.
As a person of color, there's no getting around the reality of its responsibility.
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
No matter what your native tongue is, no matter what part of the world you're from, if your native tongue is distorted with an accent, somehow that's always funny.