Rise to Fame
He was a jock in high school and didn't think about acting until his senior year, which put him about a decade behind his contemporaries. But Law & Order erased that gap fast. He joined the series in 1995 as Detective Rey Curtis, earned an Emmy nomination, and stayed four seasons. Leaving in 1999 was well-timed: Traffic and Miss Congeniality both came within a year, and he had a movie career before the procedural could swallow him whole.
In the Spotlight
He's been a working actor for three decades without ever quite becoming the star his early momentum suggested. Those Law & Order years and the film parts that followed didn't add up to leading-man status. He found a groove in voice work: Ernesto de la Cruz in Pixar's Coco (2017), the charming villain who stole his best friend's songs. In 2025 he joined Andor Season 2 as Bail Organa, stepping into territory Jimmy Smits built across multiple Star Wars properties. Franchise entertainment is what keeps him in the conversation.
Side Notes
His mother took him and his siblings to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz when he was six, going two or three times a week. She was Peruvian-born, Quechua-descended, and spent years organizing for Native American rights. His paternal grandfather was a Broadway actor. Bratt grew up around protest politics and performance but picked baseball, swimming, and wrestling instead. He didn't consider acting until his father pushed him to audition for a school play his senior year of high school.