Benjamin Bratt

In film, Bratt has appeared in Demolition Man (1993), Blood In Blood Out (1993), Traffic (2000), Piñero (2001), Miss Congeniality (2000), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) and its sequel (2013), La Mission (2009), The Lesser Blessed (2012), Despicable Me 2 (2013), Doctor Strange (2016), The Infiltrator (2016), Ride Along 2 (2016) and Coco (2017).\n', ' Bratt was born in San Francisco, California, the third of five children born to Eldy (née Banda), a nurse and activist, and Peter Bratt Sr., a sheet metal worker. His mother was born in Lima, Peru, a member of the indigenous Quechua ethnic group. She moved to the United States at age 14. His father has German and English ancestry. His parents married December 30, 1960 in San Francisco, but divorced in September 1967. Bratt\'s paternal grandfather, George Cleveland Bratt (March 5, 1893 – March 29, 1984), was a Broadway actor who married Bratt\'s paternal grandmother, Wiltrude Hildner in Detroit, Michigan.\n', ' Bratt attended the prestigious Lowell High School in San Francisco, where he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society. Bratt earned a B.F.A. at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1986, where he joined the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. Although he was admitted into the M.F.A. program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, he left before receiving his degree to star in the 1987 television film Juarez. As a child, Bratt went with his mother and siblings to participate in the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz.\n', '