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Native-Mexican American actor

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Danny Trejo is a Mexican-American actor known for appearing in numerous films and television shows. He is notable for building a successful acting career and has become a recognizable figure in entertainment.

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Person · Open Library

Works
4

Top works

  • Trejo's Cantina
  • Trejo , der Danny Trejo Ist
  • Trejo
  • Trejo's Tacos : Recipes and Stories from L. A.

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Film & TV

Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA

Dan Trejo (born May 16, 1944) is a Native Mexican-American actor, and character actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often as hypermasculine characters, villains and anti-heroes. Some of his notable films include Heat, Con Air, Machete, and Desperado, the latter two with frequent collaborator Robert Rodriguez.

Known for

  • The Wrecker — Eduardo2025
  • American Warrior2025
  • The Street Avenger — Muerte2025
  • Pug2025
  • Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox — Royce2025
  • Hubbard Street — Sebastian2025
  • Zootopia 2 — Jesús (voice)2025
  • Goldfish2025
  • Magical Meat — Self2025
  • E.B. White's Charlotte's Web — Gander (voice)2025

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1944

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
616
Total plays
8,049

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Fast hardcore punk band formed in 2011 outcome of the fusion of six elements coming from different bands of the italian and global punk-hardcore scene: Los Fastidios, Gonna Fall Hard, Inerdzia, Discomfort, Slander, Santa Banana, Talco. https://www.facebook.com/dannytrejohc https://dannytrejohc.bandcamp.com/ https://www.discogs.com/artist/3605072-Danny-Trejo <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Danny+Trejo">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else. Everything.

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Key facts

Born
( 1944-05-16 ) May 16, 1944 (age 82) , Maywood, California , U.S.
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1983–present
Works
Full list
Relatives
Robert Rodriguez (second cousin) Patricia Vonne (second cousin)

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Wikidata facts

Image
Danny Trejo by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Height
1.64
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Commons category
Danny Trejo
date of birth
1944-05-16
start of work period
1985-00-00
name in native language
Danny Trejo
social media followers
562516
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Danny Trejo (/ˈtreɪhoʊ/, Spanish: [ˈtɾexo]; born May 16, 1944) is an American actor. In his body of work he appears as a character actor. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $3.7 billion worldwide.

A native of Los Angeles, Trejo's film career began in 1985, when he landed a role in Runaway Train (1985). The first film in which he was given a credited role was as Art Sanella in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987). He went on to star in a multitude of other films, many of which were small parts as inmates, gangsters, or other criminals, appearing in Desperado, Heat (both 1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Con Air (1997), The Replacement Killers (1998), Reindeer Games (2000), and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), among others.

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