Danny Trejo
Native Mexican-American character actor · United States · Actors · Born 1944 · age 82
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Something wrong?He's played the heavy in dozens of films - convict, gangster, silent enforcer - so many times that his face became shorthand for menace. Then Robert Rodriguez gave the glowering character actor a name, Machete, and the bit part became a franchise.
A life in dates
Zootopia 2Film, Jesús (voice)2020
American Pie Presents: Girls' RulesFilm, Janitor Steve Garcia2019“Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything.”In their words7 August 2019"Actor Danny Trejo saves a trapped baby from an overturned car" (August 7, 2019)
The Kelly Clarkson ShowSeries, 20192018“I made a deal with God. I said, ‘Let me die with dignity.”In their words29 October 2018On renouncing a life of crime in “Danny Trejo: the hardest man in Hollywood” in The Guardian (October 29, 2018)“People say, ‘You always play the mean Chicano dude with tattoos.’ Well, I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos…So they got it right.”In their words29 October 2018On being typecasted in “Danny Trejo: the hardest man in Hollywood” in The Guardian (October 29, 2018)
Death Race: Beyond AnarchyFilm, 2018Goldberg2015
The Ridiculous 6Film, Cicero2014
The FlashSeries, Breacher
Muppets Most WantedFilm, 2014Danny Trejo2013
Brooklyn Nine-NineSeries, Oscar Diaz2011
A Very Harold & Kumar ChristmasFilm, Mr. Perez2009
Modern FamilySeries, Gus2007
Phineas and FerbSeries, Venom (voice)
GrindhouseFilm, 2007Machete (segment "Planet Terror")2005
American Dad!Series, (voice)2004
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron BurgundyFilm, Bartender2002
MonkSeries, Spyder Rudner
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost DreamsFilm, 2002Machete2000
Reindeer GamesFilm, Jumpy1998
Six Days Seven NightsFilm, Pierce1997
King of the HillSeries, Victor Velasquez (voice)1996
From Dusk Till DawnFilm, Razor Charlie1993
The X-FilesSeries, Cesar Ocampo
Bound by HonorFilm, 1993Geronimo1985
Runaway TrainFilm, Boxer1975
Saturday Night LiveSeries1944Born16 May 1944Also in Deutsch
Photos 5
![Trejo at Muscle Beach, circa 1986[40]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Danny_Trejo_2.jpg)
In their own words 4
, Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything.
I made a deal with God. I said, ‘Let me die with dignity.
People say, ‘You always play the mean Chicano dude with tattoos.’ Well, I am the mean Chicano dude with tattoos…So they got it right.
Filmography 40
ZOZootopia 2
MGMinions: The Rise of Gru
CIClerks III
TRThe SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the RunARAmerican Pie Presents: Girls' Rules
DGDora and the Lost City of Gold
FH3 from HellDADeath Race: Beyond Anarchy
STStorksTRThe Ridiculous 6
TLThe Book of LifeMWMuppets Most Wanted
MKMachete Kills
DIDeath Race: Inferno
SWSpy Kids: All the Time in the WorldACA Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
PRPredators
DRDeath Race 2
MAMachete
PTPlanet Terror
HAHalloweenGRGrindhouse
TRThe Devil's RejectsABAnchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
SOSpy Kids 3-D: Game Over
OMOnce Upon a Time in Mexico
XXxXxSDSpy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
SKSpy KidsRGReindeer GamesSNSix Days Seven Nights
TKThe Replacement Killers
CACon Air
ANAnacondaFDFrom Dusk Till Dawn
HEHeat
DEDesperadoBHBound by Honor
LULock UpRTRunaway Train482 credits on file
Television 24
TSThe Kelly Clarkson Show
TCThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
NTNew Looney TunesTFThe Flash
RMRick and MortyBNBrooklyn Nine-Nine
YJYoung JusticeMFModern Family
NANCIS: Los Angeles
RRRuPaul's Drag Race
BBBreaking Bad
SASons of AnarchyPFPhineas and FerbADAmerican Dad!
BOBones
DHDesperate Housewives
SAStargate AtlantisMOMonk
FGFamily Guy
FUFuturamaKHKing of the HillTFThe X-Files
TSThe SimpsonsSLSaturday Night LiveAbout this person
Born in Los Angeles on May 16, 1944, Trejo's film career began in 1985 with Runaway Train, followed by his first credited role in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown two years later. Through the '90s and early 2000s he worked steadily in small parts - inmates and criminals in Heat, Desperado, Con Air, From Dusk till Dawn - the kind of roles that stack up quietly until the face is everywhere. In 2001 he appeared as Isador "Machete" Cortez in Spy Kids, a side character Rodriguez spun into a lead: Machete arrived in 2010 as a full exploitation film with Trejo at center, followed by Machete Kills in 2013. His voice became equally ubiquitous, logging work in video games from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to Fallout New Vegas, and animated films including Minions: The Rise of Gru and the upcoming Zootopia 2. Films he's appeared in have grossed over $3.7 billion worldwide.
In common with Danny
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