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Bratt in 2011, Helga Esteb / Shutterstock.com
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States
Date of Birth: December 16, 1963
Ethnicity: * father – German, English, Sudeten German * mother – Indigenous Peruvian Quechua
Benjamin Bratt is an American actor. His roles include the series Knightwatch , Nasty Boys , Law & Order , Homicide: Life on the Street , E-Ring , The Andromeda Strain , The Cleaner , American Experience , Modern Family , Private Practice , 24: Live Another Day , Star , DMZ , Poker Face , Skull Island , Loot , and Andor ; the films Bright Angel , One Good Cop , Chains of Gold , Blood in Blood Out , Demolition Man , Clear and Present Danger , The River Wild (1994), Follow Me Home (1995), The Next Best Thing , The Last Producer , Red Planet , Miss Congeniality , Traffic (2000), Piñero , Abandon (2002), The Woodsman , Catwoman (2004), Thumbsucker , The Great Raid , Love in the Time of Cholera , Trucker (2008), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs , and its sequel; The People Speak , La Mission (2009), Snitch (2013), The Lesser Blessed , Despicable Me 2 , Justice League: Gods and Monsters , Ride Along 2 , Special Correspondents , The Inflitrator , Doctor Strange (2016), Shot Caller , Coco (2017), A Score to Settle , Best Summer Ever , Dead for a Dollar , Mother of the Bride , Millers in Marriage , and Balls Up ; and the made-for-tv movies Texas (1994), Exiled: A Law & Order Movie , and After the Storm .
His father, Peter Bratt, an American, was a sheet metal worker. He was of one quarter English, and three quarters German, including Sudeten German, ancestry. His mother, Eldy (Banda), was born in Peru, and was a nurse and Indigenous activist. She was of Quechua ancestry. His brother, Peter Bratt, is a writer and director. His nephew is actor Kauchani Bratt.
Benjamin is married to actress and model Talisa Soto , with whom he has two children.
Benjamin’s paternal grandfather was George Cleveland Bratt (the son of George Cleveland Bratt and Rosetta Weirich). Benjamin’s grandfather George was born in Michigan. Benjamin’s great-grandfather George, a Broadway actor, was born in Canada, to English parents, Joseph Bratt and Anna Lee. Rosetta was the daughter of Peter Weirich, who was German, born in Todtenorth, Prussia, and of Josephine Arnold, who was born in Friedland, Bohemia, and was likely a Sudeten German.
Benjamin’s paternal grandmother was Wiltrude/Wiltrud Hildner (the daughter of Jonathan Augustus Charles Hildner and Barbara R. Goetz). Wiltrude was born in Michigan, to German parents. Jonathan was the son of John Gotthold Hildner and Johanna Heinrika Charlotte “Joanna” Josenhans. Barbara was the daughter of John Adam Goetz and Anna Barbara Walz/Waltz.
Source: Genealogy of Benjamin Bratt (focusing on his father’s side) – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com