Ben Hernandez Bray

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 Hes the oldest of six children raised by his Mother and Grandmother and is of Mexican and Irish descent In the late 1980s 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 Heigls tv series State of Affairs for NBCUniversal he then went on to direct episodes for FoxBruckheimer CWGreg Berlanti and ABCFreeform In 2018 will be Brays feature film debut which he cowrote with Joe Carnahan called El Chicano a Mexican Super hero story about two brothers growing up in East LA 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