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
My first and only attempt ended up with me smacking myself in the back of the head. I left it to the professionals.
I'm on a real roll. Since I left Law and Order, I've made six films. The whole reason I left Law and Order was I wanted to have a life. That show is a huge commitment.
I thought I might be a sheet metal worker, ... But I also knew the importance of getting an education. And when I got to college, it derailed any notion I had of being in construction. The arts seemed to stimulate me more.
Without exception, they each answered, 'If I could, I'd want to get back to the field to help the rest of our guys get back,'
The one thing for an actor that is complete death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work.
They built these amazing sets. (But) we had a film team in Shanghai.
I have no particular career agenda.
I think there's a settled quality, there's a gravitas that comes with aging and with being a parent because you certainly come to recognize that there's nothing else that takes greater priority than raising your children.
I believe there's a huge distinction between un macho and a real man. I don't think you have to be one to be another.
I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.
I'm oftentimes called away from my family... it's rather hard for me to be away from them. We're very close.
My sense of personal strength has always come from my family.
The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.