Biography
Ben Hernandez Bray is a film and television director who was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in one of the toughest San Fernando Valley neighborhoods. He's the oldest of six children, raised by his Mother and Grandmother and is of Mexican and Irish descent. In the late 1980's his boxing skills led him into the stunt industry where he then became one of the very few successful latino stuntmen in Hollywood and eventually becoming one of the top action stunt coordinators and second unit directors, working specifically with "Smoking Aces" Joe Carnahan and "Silver Linings Playbook" David O Russell. After twenty five plus years in the industry and over one hundred fifty film and tv credits, Mr Bray made his television directorial debut in 2015 with Katie Heigl's tv series "State of Affairs" for NBC/Universal, he then went on to direct episodes for Fox/Bruckheimer, CW/Greg Berlanti and ABC/Freeform. In 2018 will be Bray's feature film debut which he co-wrote with Joe Carnahan called "El Chicano" a Mexican Super hero story about two brothers growing up in East L.A. The story was inspired and originally written by Bray 10 years earlier after losing his youngest brother to gang violence. The film is being produced by War Party Productions and Lorenzo di Bonaventura.
Filmography
all 101
Movies 78
TV Shows 23
Director 19
Producer 1

Tracker (2024)

The Lincoln Lawyer (2022)

Walker (2021)

Big Sky (2020)

9-1-1: Lone Star (2020)

El Chicano (2019)

The Enemy Within (2019)

Roswell, New Mexico (2019)

S.W.A.T. (2017)

The Keeping Hours (2017)

Lowriders (2017)

Queen of the South (2016)

Lucifer (2016)

Shadowhunters (2016)

Joy (2015)

Supergirl (2015)

Curve (2015)

McFarland, USA (2015)

Accidental Love (2015)

The Gambler (2014)

State of Affairs (2014)

Ouija (2014)

Stretch (2014)

Life After Beth (2014)

Earth to Echo (2014)

In the Blood (2014)

American Hustle (2013)

Out of the Furnace (2013)

Evidence (2013)

Trust Me (2013)

Channeling (2013)

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Argo (2012)

Arrow (2012)

Savages (2012)

The Grey (2012)

Real Steel (2011)

The Fighter (2010)

The Defenders (2010)

The A-Team (2010)

Powder Blue (2009)

AmericanEast (2008)

Lakeview Terrace (2008)

Columbus Day (2008)

Iron Man (2008)

Stiletto (2008)

The Ruins (2008)

Breaking Bad (2008)

The Hammer (2007)

How to Rob a Bank (2007)

Smokin' Aces (2006)

Unknown (2006)

Death Row (2006)

Entity: Nine (2006)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

The Closer (2005)

Hostage (2005)

Funky Monkey (2004)

I ♥ Huckabees (2004)

The Alamo (2004)

The Rundown (2003)

National Security (2003)

Ticker (2002)

Without a Trace (2002)

CSI: Miami (2002)

She Spies (2002)

Purpose (2002)

Radical Jack (2001)

Double Take (2001)

Three Kings (1999)

The Hurricane (1999)

Dark Nova (1999)

Phantoms (1998)

My Family (1995)

Blue Tiger (1994)

The Black Demon: Atlantis
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birth PlaceLos Angeles, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsBenny Hernandez, Benny Bray, Ben Bray, Ben Hernandez
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