More about Danny TrejoDanny Trejo (/ˈtreɪhoʊ/; Spanish: [ˈtrexo]; born May 16, 1944) is an American actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often as villains and antiheroes. His films include Heat (1995), Con Air (1997), and Desperado (1995), the latter with frequent collaborator Robert Rodriguez.
Trejo is perhaps most recognized as the character Machete, originally developed by Rodriguez for the Spy Kids series of movies and later expanded into Trejo's own series of films aimed at a more adult audience. He has appeared in TV shows such as Breaking Bad, The X-Files, and Sons of Anarchy. He also appeared in the spoof movie Delta Farce as the killer Carlos Santana who in the movie keeps getting mistaken for the musician.
Trejo was born in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, of Mexican ancestry.
He is the son of Alice Rivera and Dan Trejo, a construction worker, and a second cousin of filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, though the two were unaware that they were related until the filming of Desperado.
Prior to his film career Trejo worked as a labor foreman in construction.
Throughout the 1960s, Trejo was in and out of jail and prison in California; Trejo has suggested that his physical appearance contributed to his constantly getting into trouble.There are conflicting accounts of his prison chronology. By one account, his final term in custody ended in 1972; by another account, he did time in a juvenile offenders' camp and six California prisons between 1959 and 1969.
He recalled that his last prison term was five years. While serving in San Quentin Prison, he became a champion boxer in that prison's lightweight and welterweight divisions.
During this time, Trejo became a member of a twelve-step program, which he credits with his success in overcoming drug addiction.
In 2011, he recalled that he had been sober for 42 years.
Filmography2017 All About the Money
2016 Storks
2015 Bad Asses on the Bayou
2014 Preggoland
2014 The Book of Life Skeleton
2014 Muppets Most Wanted
2013 Reach Me
2013 In the Blood
2013 Machete Kills
2013 Chavez Cage of Glory
2012 Bad Ass
2012 Sushi Girl
2011 Violet & Daisy
2011 Bro'
2011 A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
2011 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
2011 Ranchero
2010 Machete
2010 Predators
2010 The Killing Jar
2010 Death Race 2
2009 Saint John of Las Vegas
2009 Official Rejection
2009 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
2008 The Boys of Ghost Town
2008 Modus Operandi Holiday
2008 Necessary Evil
2008 El Superstar
2007 Battle for Terra
2007 Halloween (2007)
2007 Delta Farce
2007 Smiley Face
2006 Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror
2006 Sherrybaby
2006 Jack's Law
2006 National Lampoon's TV: The Movie
2006 Living the Dream
2006 Death Row (2007)
2005 The Devil's Rejects
2005 The Crow: Wicked Prayer
2005 All Souls Day
2005 Tennis, Anyone...?
2004 Lost
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2002 Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
2002 The Salton Sea
2002 XXX
2001 Bubble Boy
2001 Spy Kids (2001)
2000 Animal Factory
2000 Reindeer Games
1998 The Replacement Killers
1998 Point Blank (1998)
1998 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
1997 Con Air
1997 Anaconda
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 Jaguar
1995 Desperado
1993 My Crazy Life
1993 12:01
1991 Whore
1991 Double-Crossed
1990 Maniac Cop 2
1985 Runaway Train