Benjamin Bratt Biography (3)

Benjamin Bratt most recently starred as the title character in Leon Ichaso's Pinero, the critically acclaimed biopic about the controversial Latino poet, playwright and actor Miguel Pinero. He also made a cameo appearance in Steven Soderberg's Academy Award-winning Traffic, written by Stephen Gaghan.

Bratt's additional screen credits include Miss Congeniality, opposite Sandra Bullock, Red Planet, with Val Kilmer and Carrie-Anne Moss, John Schlesinger's The Next Best Thing, The River Wild, with Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon, Phillip Noyce's Clear And Present Danger, starring Harrison Ford, Demolition Man, with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes, Peter Bratt's Follow Me Home, featuring Alfre Woodard, Taylor Hackford's Bound by Honor, Bright Angel, co-starring Lili Taylor and Dermot Mulroney and One Good Cop, with Michael Keaton.

Bratt established himself on Dick Wolf's critically acclaimed drama Law & Order. A series regular for four seasons, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Detective Reynaldo Curtis in 1999. Bratt also starred in Showtime's Woman Undone, with Randy Quaid and Mary McDonnell, James A. Michener's Texas, and After the Storm, based on the story by Earnest Hemingway.

He is currently filming The Great Raid for director John DahI. Based on a true story, the film stars Bratt as Henry Mucci, an army ranger colonel chosen to lead a POW camp invasion in the last days of World War II.

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