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.

Filmography

• 2026Accursed — Alejandro
• 2025American Warrior
• E.B. White's Charlotte's Web — Gander (voice)
• 2025From a Son — George
• 2025Goldfish
• 2025Hubbard Street — Sebastian
• 2025Pug
• 2025The Street Avenger — Muerte
• 2025The Wrecker — Eduardo
• 2025Tim Travers and the Time Traveler's Paradox — Royce
• 2025Zootopia 2 — Jesús (voice)
• 2024Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue — Laurence (voice)
• 2024Holy Cash — Actor
• 2024I Heart Robots — Bob
• Mr. Birchum — Switchblade (voice)
• 2024NHL Big City Greens Classic 2 — Vasquez (voice)
• 2024Reapers — The Wanderer
• 2024Seven Cemeteries — Bravo
• 2024The Legend of Johnny Jones — El Muerte
• 2024The Night They Came Home — Digger
• 2024Wages of Sin — Jimmy
• 20231521: The Quest for Love and Freedom — Ferdinand Magellan
• 2023A Dark Way Out — Ralph
• 2023Death on the Border — Father Francis
• 2023Hunting Games — Sheriff Ramos
• Krapopolis — Chief Ravdi (voice)
• 2023Miami Bici 2 — Mr Susan
• 2023The Michoacan File — Narrator, Executive Producer
• The Muppets Mayhem — Danny Trejo
• 2023Una preghiera per Giuda — Carnizzari
• 2022A Tale of Two Guns — Junior
• 2022Caroltyn — Wells
• Chibiverse — Vasquez (voice)
• 2022Clerks III — Auditioner
• 2022Escándalo Secreto En Plena Cuarentena — MMR, Mario Machin Rin
• 2022Fire-Man's Fetish — Fire-Man
• 2022Good Mourning — Method Cameo
• 2022Goodbye Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Oscar Diaz (archive footage)
• 2022Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone — Master Gin
• 2022It's a Wonderful Binge — Angel
• Lopez vs Lopez
• 2022Minions: The Rise of Gru — Stronghold (voice)
• PBC — Ricky
• 2022Renegades — Sanchez
• 2022Smile or Hug
• 2022The Legend of La Llorona — Jorge
• 2022The Prey: Legend of Karnoctus — Vega
• 2022VampFather — Vampfather, Executive Producer
• 2022Wolf Mountain — Eddie
• American Horror Stories — Santa
• 2021American Sicario — Pedro
• 2021Death Rider in the House of Vampires — Bela Latigo
• Masters of the Universe: Revelation — Ram Man (voice)
• Maya and the Three — Cabrakan (voice)
• Monsters at Work — Terry (voice)
• 2021Muppets Haunted Mansion — Ghost of Huet
• 2021Pups Alone — Vinnie P (voice)
• 2021Shadow of the Cat — Sombra
• 2021The Black Hole — Edmund
• The Book of Boba Fett — Rancor Keeper
• The Ghost and Molly McGee — Bobby Daniels (voice)
• 2021The Rebels of PT-218 — Seaman Edgar 'Cookie' Orozco
• Total Badass Wrestling — Bobby 'The Body' Estrada
• 2020American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules — Janitor Steve Garcia
• 2020Bullets of Justice — Gravedigger
• 2020Cover Me — Big Mike
• 2020Final Kill — Francesco
• 2020HA Festival: The Art of Comedy
• 2020Lumpia: With a Vengeance — Reyes
• Paragon: The Shadow Wars — Kincaid
• 2020Pistolera — Indio
• Reno 911! — Assassin
• 2020The Last Exorcist — Marco
• 2020The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run — El Diablo
• 20193 from Hell — Rondo
• 2019Acceleration — Santos
• 2019Bare Knuckle Brawler — Santo Ariza
• 2019Big Kill — General Morales
• 2019Black Licorice — Donicio
• 2019Cross: Rise of the Villains — Muerte
• 2019Dora and the Lost City of Gold — Boots (voice)
• 2019Every 9 Hours — Raul
• Fast & Furious Spy Racers — Tuco (voice)
• 2019Grand-Daddy Day Care — Eduardo Hernandez
• 2019Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo — Self, Executive Producer
• L.A.'s Finest — Reuben Velazquez
• 2019Madness in the Method — Danny
• Seis Manos — Baldemar / El Balde (voice)
• 2019Slasher Party — Danny Trejo
• 2019Slayer: The Repentless Killogy — Danny
• 2019The Margarita Man — Dr. Valenzuela
• The Masked Singer — Raccoon
• 2019The Outsider — Carlos
• 2019The Short History of the Long Road — Miguel
• Theme Song Takeover — Vasquez (voice)
• Victor and Valentino — Paco (voice), The Cupcake Man (voice)
• What We Do in the Shadows — Danny
• 2019Wish Man — Jose
• 2018#Roxy — Principal Castillo
• 2018American Nightmares — Mister Malevolent
• Big City Greens — Vasquez (voice)
• 2018Bully — Manny
• 2018Death House — Inmate (uncredited)
• 2018Death Race: Beyond Anarchy — Goldberg
• 2018Frat Pack — Dirty
• 2018Fury of the Fist and the Golden Fleece — Nino Grande
• 2018Gone Are the Days — River Man
• Kidding — Danny Trejo
• 2018Silencer — Lenard "Big Daddy" Ochoa
• The Conners — Tito
• 2017All About the Money — Luis Diego
• American Gods — Mr. World
• 2017Avenge the Crows — Antonio
• 2017BorderCross
• 2017Calico Queens — Bill Gallows
• 2017Cross Wars — Murete
• 2017Dead Again in Tombstone — Guerrero
• 2017Juarez 2045 — Angel Malvado
• 2017Maximum Impact — Don Sanchez
• 2017McDick — Oscar
• 2017Murder in the Woods — Sheriff Lorenzo
• 2017Not a War Story
• 2017Puss in Book: Trapped in an Epic Tale — El Moco (voice)
• Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure — Wreck Marauder (voice)
• 20161st Strike — Manny Garcia, Producer
• 2016Boost — Roy Casares
• 2016Bridesman — Eduardo
• 2016Chronology — Jackhammer
• 2016Cyborg X — Captain Machine Gun
• 2016Halloweed — Patch
• 2016Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House — Mr. Morgo
• 2016North by El Norte — Uncle John
• 2016Range 15 — Zombie Trejo
• 2016Storks — Jasper (voice)
• 2016Street Level — Carlton the Doorman
• 2016Vigilante Diaries — Crazy Joe
• 20153-Headed Shark Attack — Max Burns
• 20154Got10 — Mateo Perez
• 2015A Horse Story — Moonlight (voice)
• 2015Alcatraz Prison Escape: Deathbed Confession — Narrator (voice)
• 2015Bad Asses on the Bayou — Frank Vega, Associate Producer
• 2015East LA Interchange — narrator
• 2015Hope Lost — Marius
• 2015L.A. Slasher — The Drug Dealer #2
• New Looney Tunes — Lieutenant (voice)
• 2015No Way Out — Don Caceres
• Pig Goat Banana Cricket — Filthy the Foot (voice)
• Real Rob — Danny
• 2015Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Renegade Rampage — Newtralizer (voice)
• The Adventures of Puss in Boots — El Moco (voice)
• 2015The Burning Dead — Night Wolf
• 2015The Night Crew — Aguilar
• 2015The Ridiculous 6 — Cicero
• 2015The Weight of Blood and Bones — Espada
• 2015VANish — Carlos
• 201420 Ft Below: The Darkness Descending — Angel
• 2014Bad Ass 2: Bad Asses — Frank Vega
• 2014Beyond the Game — José
• 2014Bullet — Frank
• 2014Five Thirteen — El Loco
• 2014Force of Execution — Oso
• From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series — The Regulator
• 2014In the Blood — Big Biz
• Misfit Garage
• 2014Muppets Most Wanted — Danny Trejo
• 2014Preggoland — Pedro
• 2014Reach Me — Vic
• 2014Reaper — Jack
• Saint George — Tio
• 2014Scooby-Doo! Ghastly Goals — Reynaldo (voice)
• 2014Strike One — Manny Garcia, Producer
• 2014The Book of Life — Skeleton Luis (voice)
• The Flash — Breacher
• 2014Throwdown — Tattoo
• 2014Vieques
• 2014Voodoo Possession — Kross
• 2013Amelia's 25th — Don Javier
• 2013American Lowrider — The O.G.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine — Oscar Diaz
• 2013Chavez Cage of Glory — Mando
• Circus Halligalli
• 2013Counterpunch — Manny Navarro
• 2013Courier from 'Paradise'
• 2013Dead in Tombstone — Guerrero
• 2013Death Race: Inferno — Goldberg
• Fra Sydhavn til West Coast — Sig selv
• 2013Machete Kills — Machete
• Maron — Manny
• Mickey Mouse — Piñata Boss (voice)
• 2013Pendejo (Idiot) — Pedro
• 2013Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel — Venom (voice)
• Rick and Morty — Jaguar (voice)
• 2013The Contractor — Javier Reyes
• 2013The Insomniac — Jairo Torres
• 2013Ticket to Vegas — Mister Chich
• 2013Violet & Daisy — Russ
• 2013Zombie Hunter — Jesús
• 2012Bad Ass — Frank Vega
• 2012Breaking Wind — Billy Black
• 2012Bro' — Gilbert
• 2012Haunted High — Ortiz
• 2012Recoil — Drayke
• 2012Rise of the Zombies — Caspian
• 2012Short Handle — Carson
• 2012Sushi Girl — Schlomo
• 2012The Cloth — Father Connely
• The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange — Cupcake Leader (voice)
• 2011A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas — Mr. Perez
• 2011Blacktino — Rogelio
• China, IL — (voice)
• 2011Cross — Lexavier
• 2011Dark Games — Archie
• Franklin & Bash — Ultimo
• 2011House of the Rising Sun — Carlos
• 2011In the Shadow — Hermit
• 2011Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury — Ceasar
• 2011Spy Kids: All the Time in the World — Uncle Machete
• 2010American Flyer — Uncle John
• 2010Beatdown — Marcus
• 2010Boston Girls — Uncle Reggie
• 2010Death Race 2 — Goldberg
• 2010Gun — Frankie Makina
• 2010Justin Time — Mardok
• 2010Machete — Machete
• 2010Modus Operandi — Director Holiday, Executive Producer
• 2010Pastor Shepherd — Phil Harrison, Executive Producer
• 2010Predators — Cuchillo
• 2010Predators: Moments of Extraction — Cuchillo (voice), Thanks
• 2010Saint John of Las Vegas — Bismarck
• 2010Shadows in Paradise — Matador
• 2010Shoot the Hero — Crazy Joe
• 2010Six Days in Paradise — Ruben Skinner
• 2010The Bill Collector — Frankie Gutierrez
• The Good Guys — Alfredo
• 2010The Killing Jar — Jimmy
• 2010The Lazarus Papers — Aroon
• Young Justice — Bane (voice)
• 2009Babysitters Beware — Clyde / The Guard
• 2009Cowboy Dreams — Lobo
• 2009Eyeborgs — G-Man
• 2009Fanboys — The Chief
• Modern Family — Gus
• NCIS: Los Angeles — Tuhon
• 2009The Boys of Ghost Town — Father
• 2009The Grind — Nicholi Guzman
• 2009The Haunted World of El Superbeasto — Rico (voice)
• 2009The Line — Mario
• 2008Alone in the Dark 2 — Perry
• Breaking Bad — Tortuga
• 2008D.O.P.E. - Death Or Prison Eventually — Narrator
• 2008Jake's Corner — Clint
• 2008Juan Frances: Live — E.J.
• 2008Necessary Evil — Barro
• 2008Railroad to Hell: A Chinaman's Chance — Manolo
• 2008Ranchero — Capone
• Sons of Anarchy — Romero 'Romeo' Parada
• 2008The Art of Travel — Limo Driver
• The Spectacular Spider-Man — Ox (voice)
• 2008Through The Valley — Don Reyes
• 2008Toxic — Antoine
• 2008Valley of Angels — Hector
• 2007Battle for Terra — Elder Barum (voice)
• Blood Ties — Pacha Kamaq
• Burn Notice — Felipe Vega
• 2007Delta Farce — Carlos Santana
• El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
• 2007Furnace — Fury
• 2007Grindhouse — Machete (segment "Planet Terror")
• 2007Halloween — Ismael Cruz
• 2007On Bloody Sunday — The Ref
• Phineas and Ferb — Venom (voice)
• 2007Planet Terror — Machete
• 2007Richard III — Major
• 2007Smiley Face — Albert
• 2007The Blue Rose — Junk
• Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! — Criminal
• 2007Urban Justice — El Chivo
• 20067 Mummies — Apache
• 2006Danny Roane: First Time Director — Hector
• 2006Death Row — Priest
• Heist — Ernesto
• 2006High Hopes — Shady, Producer
• 2006Jack's Law — Jack Santos, Producer
• 2006Living the Dream — Chuck
• 2006National Lampoon's TV: The Movie — Crow
• 2006Propensity — Roy, Co-Producer
• 2006Sherrybaby — Dean Walker
• 2006Slayer — Montegna
• 2006Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror — Derelict
• 2006Tennis Anyone? — Hector
• 2005All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos — Vargas Diaz
• American Dad! — (voice), Mexican Thugs (voice)
• Bones — Bishop Edward Galano
• 2005Chasing Ghosts — Carlos Santiago
• 2005The Crow: Wicked Prayer — Harold
• 2005The Curse of El Charro — El Charro (Voice)
• 2005The Devil's Rejects — Rondo
• Unscripted — Danny Trejo
• 2005Venice Underground — Papi
• 2004Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy — Bartender
• Desperate Housewives — Hector Ramos
• 2004Lost — Edward James Archer
• Stargate Atlantis — Omal
• 2004Turned Out: Sexual Assault Behind Bars — Narrator
• 2004Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie — Bartender
• Kingpin
• 2003Once Upon a Time in Mexico — Cucuy
• 2003Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over — Machete
• 2003The Big Empty — Lt. Gates
• 200213 Moons — Hoodlum
• 2002Beat the Devil — Bob
• 2002Do It for Uncle Manny — Pedro
• George Lopez — Bobby
• Monk — Spyder Rudner
• 2002Nightstalker — Officer Frank Luis, Co-Producer
• 2002Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams — Machete
• 2002The Salton Sea — Little Bill
• 2002xXx — El Jefe
• Alias — Emilio Vargas
• 2001Bubble Boy — Slim
• Grounded for Life — Raul
• 2001Skippy — Hitman
• 2001Spy Kids — Machete
• The Hire — Bob
• 2000Animal Factory — Vito, Co-Producer
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force — Dewey (voice)
• 2000Cuenta Saldada — Secuestrador 1 (as Daniel Trejo)
• 2000From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter — Razor Charlie
• 2000Reindeer Games — Jumpy
• Family Guy — Clint Beltran (voice)
• 1999From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money — Razor Eddie
• Futurama — Doblando Rodriguez (voice)
• 1999Inferno — Johnny Six Toes
• 1999Soundman — Duce's Father
• 1999Whiteboyz — Prisoner
• 1998Champions — Max Brito
• 1998Point Blank — Wallace
• 1998Six Days Seven Nights — Pierce
• 1998The Replacement Killers — Collins
• 1997Anaconda — Poacher
• Brooklyn South — Louis
• 1997Con Air — "Johnny-23"
• 1997Dilemma — Rudy Salazar
• King of the Hill — Victor Velasquez (voice), Enrique (voice), Enrique / Octavio (voice), Lifeguard / Waiter (voice), Octavio (voice) (uncredited)
• 1997Los Locos — Manuel Batista
• 1997Trojan War — Scarface
• 1996From Dusk Till Dawn — Razor Charlie
• 1996Jaguar — Kumare
• 1995Dead Badge — El Tango Bartender
• 1995Desperado — Navajas
• 1995Heat — Trejo
• 1995The Stranger — Hawk
• 1994Against the Wall — Luis
• 1994Criminal Passion — Construction Worker
• High Tide — Tattooist
• 1994Mi Vida Loca — Frank
• Vanishing Son — Out-of-Breath Man
• 1994Victor One — Sergeant Aguilar
• 199312:01 — Prisoner
• 1993Bound by Honor — Geronimo
• 1993Doppelganger — Hard Hat
• Fallen Angels — Boxer
• 1993Last Light — 2nd Inmate
• 1993Love, Cheat & Steal — Cuban
• NYPD Blue — Gabriel mota, Frankie soto
• 1993Sunset Grill — Young Mexican
• The X-Files — Cesar Ocampo
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Joe Lopez, José Rodriguez
• 1992Nails — Las Virgenes bartender
• Renegade — Freddie
• 1992Sex Crimes — Palmer
• 1991Carnal Crimes — Ticket Agent
• 1991Doublecrossed — Lito
• FBI: The Untold Stories — Snowman
• 1991Femme Fatale — Toshi
• 1991Lonely Hearts — Angry Client
• Reasonable Doubts — Cholo #2
• 1991The Last Hour — Spider
• 1991Wedlock — Tough Prisoner #1
• 1991Whore — Tattoo Artist
• Drug Wars: The Camarena Story — Gabriel
• 1990Guns — Tong
• 1990Maniac Cop 2 — Prisoner
• 1990Marked for Death — Hector
• 1989Bail Out — Mean
• Baywatch — Carlos Urueta
• 1989Cage — Costello's Bodyguard (uncredited)
• 1989Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects — Prison Inmate
• 1989Lock Up — Chink's Gang Member
• The Simpsons — Danny Trejo (voice)
• 1988Bulletproof — Sharkey
• 1987Death Wish 4: The Crackdown — Art Sanella
• Jake and the Fatman — Mumbling Prisoner
• 1987Penitentiary III — See Veer
• 1987Terminal Exposure — man in crowd (uncredited)
• 1987The Hidden — Prisoner
• 1985Runaway Train — Boxer
• Another Ice Cream Man
• Armadillo United — Coach Koko
• Choir Practice
• Counterpunch 2 — Manny Navarro
• Detour 95 — Muerte
• Downtown Bus — Sancho 'The Jailbird' Sanchez
• Evolution of the Species: Predators Reborn
• La Lucha: Getting Schooled in America
• La Venganza Rodríguez — El Super Muerto Infernal (VOICE)
• Machete Kills Again... in Space — Machete
• Occupation Rainfall: Chapter 2
• Pawn Shop
• RZR Cyber Protocol — Manolo
• The Damned — Chimalle
• Unconsensual Activity — Juan

Appearances as themselves (44)

• 5 Things with Jay Mewes — Self - Guest
• 2025Magical Meat — Self
• Mysteries Unearthed with Danny Trejo — Self - Presenter
• 2023The Dream Americano — Self
• Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend — Self - Guest Judge
• 2021Comedy Chingonas — Self - Host
• 2021Donny's Bar Mitzvah — Self
• 2021Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 — Self
• 2020All-Time Favorite NFL Players Named by Celebrities, Players, and Coaches — Self
• 2020LA Originals — Self
• Muppets Now — Self
• Lights Out with David Spade — Self
• 2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast — Self - Actor
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• 2019To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell — Self
• 2018Illegal Civilization 3 — Self
• 2018Survivor's Guide to Prison — Self
• Angie Tribeca — Self
• 2016Good Fortune — Self
• 2016Map of Hell — Himself
• Fluffy's Food Adventures — Himself
• 2015Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2014Habla Men — Self
• Running Wild with Bear Grylls — Self
• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown — Self
• 2013Tattoo Nation — Himself
• 2010The Making of Fallout: New Vegas — Self
• 2009Official Rejection — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Special Guest / Big Daddy
• 2009The Face is Familiar — Himself
• 2008Michael Lives: The Making of Halloween — Self
• The Wendy Williams Show — Self
• 2007Heckler — Self
• Top Chef — Himself - Guest Judge
• 200530 Days in Hell: The Making of 'The Devil's Rejects' — Self
• 2005Champion — Self
• Hell's Kitchen — Self
• 2005Nobody Wants Your Film — Self
• 2005The Making of 'Heat' — Self
• The District — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• The Price Is Right — Self