Benjamin Bratt to Co-Star in UNTITLED MUSIC PILOT by Lee Daniels & Tom Donaghy

By: Caryn Robbins Dec. 11, 2015

Emmy Award-Nominated Actor Benjamin Bratt co-stars in UNTITLED MUSIC PILOT by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy. Bratt will play "Jahil," a talent manager with impeccable taste, a hidden life and a drive for redemption.

UNTITLED MUSIC PILOT by Lee Daniels (EMPIRE, "Lee Daniels' The Butler") and Tom Donaghy ("The Whole Truth"), follows three young women, who form a girl group with hopes of making it big in the music industry, and the choices with which they're faced along the way. Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award, Grammy Award and Golden Globe Award winner Queen Latifah anchors the cast as "Carlotta," the owner of an Atlanta beauty salon, with an amazing voice, who will become a surrogate mother to the three girls - even though she doesn't approve of their musical dreams.

UNTITLED MUSIC PILOT by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy is produced by 20th Century FOX Television. Lee Daniels (EMPIRE) will write, direct and serve as executive producer of the pilot episode. Tom Donaghy ("The Whole Truth") will serve as writer and executive producer on the pilot with Daniels. Pamela Oas Williams ("Lee Daniels' The Butler") and Effie Brown ("Dear White People") will also serve as executive producers.

About Benjamin Bratt Benjamin Bratt's diverse career has successfully spanned film and television for more than 20 year. His feature credits include "Piñero," Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic" and "The Woodsman," starring Kevin Bacon. A veteran of more than 25 films, Bratt's other work of note includes Curtis Hansen's "The River Wild," opposite Meryl Streep; "Blood In, Blood Out," for director Taylor Hackford; "Clear and Present Danger," opposite Harrison Ford; the comedy "Miss Congeniality," with Sandra Bullock; and the theatrical adaptation of the acclaimed novel "Love in the Time of Cholera," co-starring Javier Bardem.

Television audiences perhaps best recognize Bratt from his Emmy Award-nominated role as "Detective Rey Curtis" on the long-running drama "Law & Order." He recently starred in the drama series "The Cleaner," for which he also served as producer. Bratt also starred in the drama "Private Practice" and in a recurring role as Sofia Vergara's ne'er-do-well ex-husband, "Javier," on the smash hit "Modern Family." Most recently, he co-starred in the FOX series 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY. He will next be seen in the upcoming sequel to the box office comedy "Ride Along," opposite Ice Cube and Kevin Hart; "The Infiltrator," opposite Bryan Cranston; "Special Correspondents," for director Ricky Gervais; and "Shot Caller," another collaboration with director Ric Roman Waugh.

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