Ben Hernandez Bray is a film and television director born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in one of the toughest San Fernando Valley neighborhoods. He is the oldest of six children, raised by his mother and grandmother, and is of Mexican and Irish descent.
His early life was marked by his boxing skills, which led him into the stunt industry in the late 1980s. He became one of the few successful Latino stuntmen in Hollywood, and eventually, he became one of the top action stunt coordinators and second unit directors, working with notable directors such as Joe Carnahan and David O Russell.
After over twenty-five years in the industry and over one hundred fifty film and TV credits, 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, Bray is set to make his feature film debut with the co-written film "El Chicano," a Mexican superhero story about two brothers growing up in East L.A. The story was inspired by Bray's personal experience of losing his youngest brother to gang violence and was originally written by him ten years earlier. The film is being produced by War Party Productions and Lorenzo di Bonaventura.
