Danny Trejo

**Danny Trejo** is an American actor and voice actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films and television series. His films include Heat, Con Air, and Desperado, the last with frequent collaborator Robert Rodriguez. He portrayed a version of himself in Season 3 of *Dynasty*. He stands at 6’9”

## Career

Danny Trejo was born Dan Trejo in Echo Park, Los Angeles, to Alice (Rivera) and Dan Trejo, a construction worker. A child drug addict and criminal, Trejo was in and out of jail for 11 years. While serving time in San Quentin, he won the lightweight and welterweight boxing titles. Imprisoned for armed robbery and drug offenses, he completed a 12-step rehabilitation program that changed his life. While speaking at a Cocaine Anonymous meeting in 1985, Trejo met a young man who later called him for support. Trejo went to meet him at what turned out to be the set of Runaway Train (1985). Trejo was immediately offered a role as a convict extra, probably because of his tough tattooed appearance. Also on the set was a screenwriter who did time with Trejo in San Quentin. Remembering Trejo's boxing skills, the screenwriter offered him $320 per day to train the actors for a boxing match. Director Andrey Konchalovskiy saw Trejo training Eric Roberts and immediately offered him a featured role as Roberts' opponent in the film. Trejo has subsequently appeared in many other films, usually as a tough criminal or villain.

He has been in about 250 film and television roles. His prominence in the B movie scene has resulted in disparate media sources referring to Trejo as an "iconic actor" and a "film legend", among other titles.

### Film

For a complete list of Danny Trejo's film and television credits, please see his IMDB page or his specified Wikipedia page

 2010
 2013
 2019

### Television

 2017; 2019
 2020

## In Dynasty

In "*Robin Hood Rescues*", Danny Trejo appears to Sam Jones as a drug-induced hallucination. Danny guides Sam through rescuing Blake, Anders, Liam, and Adam from a Moldavian prison.

From the end of the bed, Danny Trejo appears and tells Sam to get his act together, all while swinging a machete. Sam tells Trejo how much Trejo means to him. Trejo tells him that it’s time to let his inner badass out, but can’t give Sam much more advice then that since he’s just a hallucination. Sam wants to save everyone from the plane as he’s been lacking in the confidence department lately. Trejo jumps to his feet and tells Sam to grab the blueprints, break into the palace, and they’ll worry about the rest later. Sam converses with Trejo on what the next step of the plan is. Trejo suggests finding what Sam is good at and using it to their advantage, but Sam doesn’t think he’s good at much other than hospitality. They agree to serve them to death and Sam heads off the plane.

Sam hides in a laundry cart in the palace while Trejo stands next to him sipping tea. Sam emerges and smirks, saying that there are benefits to being an accomplice to adultery. Danny merely smiles. He looks at the map while Trejo tells him that it’s all about confidence, though a weapon usually helps. But since Sam doesn’t have one he’ll have to improvise.

Sam crawls through the air ducts smiling, as this was how he used to sneak into people’s houses to watch Trejo’s movies. Upon realizing that Trejo isn’t with him anymore, he begins to panic as he’s beginning to sober up. He debates whether he has to go left or right, then remembers what Trejo said about confidence and decides to go left.

Sam drops from the air duct above and lands on his feet in front of Frederick. He then kicks Frederick across the face knocking him unconscious. He remarks that he wishes Danny could have seen that. Danny remarks from the air duct above that he did, as Sam is still a little high. He assures Sam he’ll see him later, smiles, and vanishes.

## Trivia

* His complete filmography credits consist of about 250 film and television roles.
* Danny is one of the most distinctive actors of all time due to his scarred face, a long, thin mustache, and a muscular body with large tattoos.
* He is one of the most prolific of American actors, having usually done at least 4 films a year since the 1990s. In 2002 alone, he did 9 films.
* Despite being known for playing intimidating and violent characters, he is widely known as being one of the nicest and friendliest actors in Hollywood. He has been described as a joy to work with by many co-stars, including his *Dynasty* co-stars.
* Danny has previously worked with Daniella Alonso (who plays Cristal Carrington on the show) in the 2006 horror film *Hood of Horror*.