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My Take
Benjamin Bratt belongs to a category I respect enormously: actors who make everyone around them better without demanding the spotlight. His Paco in Blood In Blood Out remains a cult touchstone for a reason, bringing real menace and wounded pride to a role a lesser actor would have played as a stock heavy. Through the nineties he kept showing up in big studio pictures like Demolition Man and Clear and Present Danger, always credible, never showy. Add voice work and producing, and you get a career built on range and reliability rather than headlines. I think Hollywood undervalues this kind of professional, and I am happy to overvalue him here.
Overview
Benjamin Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor. He is known for playing Paco Aguilar in Blood in Blood Out. He had supporting film roles in the 1990s in Demolition Man (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994) and The River Wild (1994).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Benjamin Bratt
- Name (Japanese)
- ベンジャミン・ブラット
- Reading
- べんじゃみん・ぶらっと
- Born
- December 16, 1963 (age 62)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Rabbit
- Origin
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / television actor / voice actor / film producer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Lowell High School
- University
- University of California, Santa Barbara
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.