Trejo is known for his distinctive appearance.
He has appeared in such major releases as Marked for Death (1990), Blood In Blood Out (1993), Desperado (1995), Heat (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Anaconda (1997), Con Air (1997), Six Days Seven Nights (1998), The Replacement Killers (1998), Point Blank (1998), Animal Factory (2000), Bubble Boy (2001), SPY kids (2001), xXx (2002), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), The Devil's Rejects (2005), Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror (2006), Delta Farce (2007), Grindhouse (2007), Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007), Urban Justice (2007, alongside Steven Seagal), Valley of Angels (2008), The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009, in which he voice the character of Rico), Machete (2010), Predators (2010), Bad Ass (2012) and Top Cat: the Movie (2013). Trejo has often appeared in five or more movies per year, in various genres. Since then, Trejo has become a prolific actor in both films and television, appearing alongside some of Hollywood's most famous actors, including Antonio Banderas, Charles Bronson, Nicolas Cage, George Clooney, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford, Val Kilmer, John Malkovich, and Al Pacino, and Jean-Claude Van Damme. It has been widely misreported that Trejo was actually serving time in the prison during filming, when in fact he had been released over a decade earlier. Director Andrei Konchalovsky liked Trejo's work and decided to offer him a small role in the film as a boxer. Bunker, remembering Trejo's boxing skills, offered him $320 per day to train Eric Roberts, one of the movie's stars, for a boxing scene. Edward Bunker, himself a former convict and well-respected crime author who was writing the screenplay for the film, recognized Trejo, with whom he had done time at San Quentin. While there, Trejo was offered a job as an extra in the film's prison scenes. While Trejo was working as a youth drug counselor, a teenage patient asked for his assistance dealing with cocaine problems on the set of Runaway Train (1985).
Upon his final release, Trejo enrolled in Pitzer College located in Claremont, California but subsequently left after one semester of attendance. In 2011, he recalled that he had been sober for 42 years. During this time, Trejo became a member of a twelve-step program, which he credits with his success in overcoming drug addiction. While serving in San Quentin Prison, he became a champion boxer in that prison's lightweight and welterweight divisions.
He recalled that his last prison term was five years. 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 19. There are conflicting accounts of his prison chronology. Throughout the 1960s, Trejo was in and out of jail and prison in California Trejo credits his appearance as contributory to his constantly getting into trouble. 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.
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