This actor belongs to the category of Hollywood celestials who began their careers in their youth and continue to this day. Behind the hero of our article is participation in more than one hundred feature films and TV shows. Talent and hard work are appreciated - Benjamin Bratt has several prestigious film awards.
Charisma since childhood
As often happens with famous stars who have earned world recognition, Benjamin was not going to become an actor. He was born in 1963 in a family of ordinary Americans, a nurse mother and a working father. Benji could choose to continue any of the family professions, but he was not attracted to medicine, and even more so to the metal rolling industry. From his parents, Benjamin Bratt received a substantial share of the charm. Once, they, immigrants from other countries, came to the States in search of a better life. Peruvian, German and English blood flows in Brett's genes. Parents divorced when the boy was four years old.
Love of complexity
At school, Benji was known as a real speaker. He was distinguished by the ability to eloquence. But in other disciplines, he did not lag behind. Participating in school productions, Benjamin Bratt understood that he easily entered into dramatic images, which, along with a comedic gift, are the most difficult even for famous artists. Having decided that further life should be associated with acting, Bratt enters the University of California, who graduates with a bachelor's degree.
Activity period
The actor played his first television role in the Jeffrey Bloom crime tape “Juarez”. In 1989, the obstinate Bratt received the key role of Eduardo Cruz in the action series "Nasty Boys". His success was so huge that after six months of broadcast, shooting of the full-length tape began. A year later, the actor gets the image of detective Ray Curtis, whom he will embody in “Law and Order”, “Outcast” and “Slaughter Department”.
In the 90s, Benjamin Bratt literally captures the screens. One or two films with his participation are released annually. Best of all, he gets the role of a detective-criminal orientation. Among the most popular paintings is The Direct and Explicit Threat with Harrison Ford, in which he played Captain Ramirez.
A new round of fame
Particularly popular comes to Bratt with the beginning of the new century. The first of the list of successful works is the comedy drama “Best Friend”. In it, Rupert Everett and Madonna became the screen partners. This was followed by the fantastic thriller “Red Planet”, which turned out to be successful in every sense.
Benjamin Bratt, whose filmography is replenished with the comedy “Miss Congeniality”, often appears in the role of the boyfriends of the main characters. His professionalism is growing. The actor tries himself in different roles. In 2001, he starred in a small role in the Oscar-winning “narcotic” thriller “Traffic”. Participation with such stars of the first magnitude as Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sandra Bullock, puts Benjamin with them on a par.
An enviable bachelor and a female seducer, for a long time Benjamin Bratt becomes the hero of the yellow press. The personal life of the actor is connected with the novel with the first Hollywood beauty Julia Roberts. And although they did not act together, for some time they had a long relationship.
Benjamin himself, he does not like to talk with the press on this topic, in every possible way avoids questions about his personal life. The paparazzi did not believe that such a handsome man remained single, and they constantly caught him on the streets or social events in order to capture some actress in the company. However, if this happened, Bratt always dismissed, saying that he was exclusively on friendly terms with his partners.
In 2001, Bratt reincarnated as Miguel Pinero, a poet and drug addict who rose from the poverty of the slums of New York. On the set of the same name biographical tape, he meets Talisa Soto, who later became his wife. With a break of three years, the couple gives birth to two children, the daughter of Rosalind and the son of Mateo.
With the addition to the Talis family, Soto practically ends his acting career, devoting himself to raising children. The last film with her participation is the 2009 drama The Mission District. In it, she played with her husband, and the director was Peter Bratt, Benjamin's brother.
Success and failure
The picture “After the Storm” is followed by “Abandoned” and “Lumberjack”. Fantasy film adaptation of comics about a woman cat fails at the box office, without having recouped the budget. Bratt plays a cop who tries to figure out a mysterious stranger with a tail, putting things in order at night. Ironically, he falls in love with her. The main antagonist of the film was Sharon Stone. But even this did not help “Catwoman” to collect the desired rating.
Failure did not affect the career of the actor. Films with Benjamin Bratt include the historical melodrama Love During Cholera, an adaptation of the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In subsequent years, the actor pays attention to long-playing projects, starring in the series "Cleaner", "Private Practice", "American Family". Bratt tried his hand at dubbing, giving voices to the heroes of the animation "Despicable Me" and "Cloudy with a Chance of Rain ...".
Actor Benjamin Bratt today
Over time, Benjamin did not lose his charm. He still combines the roles of tough guys and objects of romantic hobbies. For the coming years, the actor is scheduled to shoot in several films, sustained in different genres. Bratt is looking forward to interesting offers, and his fans believe that the name of one of the most sought-after residents of Hollywood will remain for a long time to be heard. In the meantime, the actor is trying to spend his free time with his family and his beloved kids.