By Annie Walker
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Benjamin Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor and producer who has worked in film and on television. He is most known for playing Paco Aguilar in Blood In, Blood Out. He has also had supporting film roles in the 1990s in Demolition Man (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), and The River Wild (1994). From 1995 to 1999, he starred as New York City Police Department (NYPD) Detective Rey Curtis on the NBC drama series Law & Order.
In the 2000s, Bratt appeared in Miss Congeniality (2000), Traffic (2000), Piñero (2001), Catwoman (2004), and Trucker (2008), Despicable Me 2 (2013), Snitch (2013), Coco (2017), among other films. On television, Bratt has portrayed Dr. Jake Reilly on ABC‘s Private Practice (2011–2013), Steve Navarro on 24: Live Another Day (2014), and Jahil Rivera on Star (2016–2018). He has also done voice acting in animated feature films.
Bratt produced the film Dolores (2017), which explores the life of Dolores Huerta, an American labor leader and civil rights activist. The film received critical acclaim and several awards.
Bratt has received a Screen Actors Guild Award and been nominated for two others. He has received four ALMA Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and a Blockbuster Entertainment Award. He is an activist in the American Indian Movement.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Jane Austen (author) –
- Philip K. Dick (author) –
- Steven Bochco (producer) –
- William “Refrigerator” Perry (football player) –
- Benjamin Bratt (actor) –
- Hallee Hirsh (actress) –
- Anna Popplewell (actress) –
Died
- Lillian Disney (wife of Walt Disney; came up with the name Mickey Mouse) –
- John Spencer (actor) –
- Michiaki Takahashi (virologist best know for inventing first chickenpox vaccine ) –
Events
- On December 16, 1620, the British ship Mayflower arrived at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. Soon after, the Pilgrims began building their settlement, Plymouth Colony. –
- A group of American patriots dressed as Indians dumped British tea overboard in Boston Harbor, protesting taxes by the British government; the event is referred to as the Boston Tea Party–
- Earthquake in Mississippi River Valley near Madrid, Missouri–
- Magnitude-8.1 earthquake in northeast Arkansas–
- Hiram W. Hayden patented a machine to make brass kettles–
- Second (and current) Cape Hatteras, N.C., lighthouse likely first lit–
- Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first published–
- 7.1 earthquake, Fairview Peak, Nevada–
- Students’ satellite STARSHINE-2 deployed–
- 9,000th episode of All My Children aired–
Weather
- The temperature in Hanover, New Hampshire, was -17 degrees F in a bitter cold snap that hit New England–
- Ice jam closed Ohio River from Warsaw, Kentucky, to Rising Sun, Indiana–
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