He was born in San Francisco on December 16, 1963, but Benjamin Bratt has always deeply identified with his mother's Peruvian Indian background. Benjamin is the middle of five children and grew up tagging along to protests and sit-ins with his siblings and their single mom, a Native American activist. He made his screen debut playing a police sergeant in the TV movie Juarez (1987), a part which foreshadowed his most famous role, Detective Raynaldo Curtis on Law & Order (1995-1999) and ...
He was born in San Francisco on December 16, 1963, but Benjamin Bratt has always deeply identified with his mother's Peruvian Indian background. Benjamin is the middle of five children and grew up tagging along to protests and sit-ins with his siblings and their single mom, a Native American activist. He made his screen debut playing a police sergeant in the TV movie Juarez (1987), a part which foreshadowed his most famous role, Detective Raynaldo Curtis on Law & Order (1995-1999) and Homicide: Life on the Street (1996-1999). He was nominated for an Emmy for that role and has gone on to appear in blockbuster movies like Traffic (2000) and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009). But if you want some skin from Benjamin, you're out of luck when it comes to full nudity because the closest he has come is a few shirtless scenes. He rocks no shirt and a great ‘stache in Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) where we first see him wearing just a towel around his waist while being checked out by a woman then later he lounges in bed. We get a good look at his chest and abs (including a cool fake tattoo) in an episode of Star, and he shows us the front and back of his upper body and might flash a hint of side booty when he is in bed with Juani Feliz in an episode of DMZ. Benjamin seems to switch between movies and TV regularly so we can hold out hope he’ll find that project that speaks to him and tells him to take his clothes off. C'mon, Benjamin, show us your Bratt-wurst!
