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Benjamin Bratt on "The Cleaner"
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Benjamin Bratt stars as William Banks and also serves as producer on A&E's "The Cleaner." After reaching the depths of his addictions, William Banks turned to God with a proposal: give him a second chance and he would be his avenging angel. Now he leads a rag-tag team devoted to helping other addicts get clean by any means necessary. He juggles his work with his rocky relationships with a wife who previously left him twice and his kids who haven't forgiven his absences during multiple stints in jail and rehab.

For more than 20 years, actor Benjamin Bratt's career has successfully spanned film and television. Benjamin Bratt made his fourth appearance at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival as an actor ("The Woodsman," "Thumbsucker," "Follow Me Home"), and his second as a producer with the film "La Mission."

Benjamin Bratt's distinguished film career includes the critically acclaimed films "Piñero," for which he was lauded for a striking, haunting, and "career defining" performance of the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero; Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic," which received five Academy Award nominations and a Screen Actor's Guild Award for Ensemble Cast; and "The Woodsman," a festival and critical favorite starring Kevin Bacon.

Television audiences perhaps best recognize Benjamin Bratt from his award-winning role of Detective Rey Curtis on NBC's long-running drama "Law & Order." Throughout his tenure on the show, Benjamin Bratt and the cast won an Emmy for Best Drama Series, while he garnered an Emmy Award nomination for best supporting actor, won two ALMA Awards, a SAG Award nomination with his cast for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, and an NCLR Bravo Award nomination. Benjamin Bratt starred in the hit A&E miniseries "The Andromeda Strain," from Ridley Scott and Tony Scott and based on the novel by Michael Crichton, which was the number one original movie or miniseries of 2008 and garnered seven Emmy nominations.

A veteran of over 25 films, Benjamin Bratt's other work of note includes Curtis Hansen's "The River Wild" opposite Meryl Streep; "Blood In, Blood Out" for director Taylor Hackford; "Clear and Present Danger," starring Harrison Ford; Stephen Gaghan's directorial debut "Abandon," opposite Katie Holmes; the World War II drama "The Great Raid" for Miramax Films; the beloved comedy "Miss Congeniality" with Sandra Bullock, for which he won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award; and most recently the theatrical adaption of the acclaimed novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera," co-starring Javier Bardem.

In "La Mission," due in theaters Fall 2009, Benjamin Bratt re-teams with his writer/director/producer brother Peter Bratt ("Follow Me Home") to star in and produce a story which recalls the culture, people, and beliefs of their childhood in the Mission district of San Francisco. In bringing "Che" to life, Benjamin Bratt portrays a man of proud conviction, frightening intolerance, hard-earned respect, and…love. Throughout his inspiring performance he delivers to audiences a challenging character with depth and complexity; a character who is sure to define Benjamin Bratt's accomplished resume for years to come.

Benjamin and Peter Bratt have recently joined with producer Alpita Patel to form 5 Stick Films, a production company geared towards films of conscience, with an aim toward telling stories with passion, vision and personal reflection. "La Mission" is the first film from this emerging endeavor.

Benjamin Bratt is married to actress Talisa Soto Bratt. They reside in Los Angeles with their two children.






BENJAMIN BRATT: FACTS

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Age: 46 years old
Birthday: December 16, 1963
Height: 6' 2"
Full Name / Real Name: Benjamin G. Bratt
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Wife: Talisa Soto




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