Benjamin Bratt

Versatile film and television actor Benjamin Bratt came to prominence during the 1990s, with his Emmy Award-nominated work on TV’s “Law & Order” (NBC, 1990- ). But far from being typecast as the conservative Latin-American family man of his character Rey Curtis, Bratt enjoyed an impressive and varied film career as a smoldering romantic lead (“Love in the Time of Cholera”), a dangerous outlaw (“Traffic”), and a streetwise poet (“Pinero”). While he made a few appearances in lighter comedic films like “Miss Congeniality” (2000), Bratt’s thoughtful, composed screen presence was best used in