Biography
Danny Trejo is an American actor who received his first legitimate credit for his part in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown and many of which included minor roles as inmates, gangsters, or other criminals, including Desperado, Heat, From Dusk Till Dawn, Con Air, The Replacement Killers, Reindeer Games, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico, among others.
Age
He is 80 years old as of 16 May 2024. He was born in 1944 in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Family – Education
Trejo is the son of Mexican-American parents Delores Rivera King and Dionisio “Dan” Trejo. Trejo was the product of an adulterous romance, and his parents met in a dance hall in 1943. He had a maternal half-sister, Dyhan, but did not see her or Delores from 1949 until 1965; his father forbade his mother from seeing him after Trejo damaged his arm in her care. He had a maternal half-sister named Dyhan, but he never saw her or Delores.
Trejo was frequently mistreated by his father, and his family briefly relocated to San Antonio, Texas, before returning to Los Angeles. After a year, Trejo’s father turned himself in, and by 1949, he was living with his cousins at their grandmother’s house. His stepmother, Alice Mendias, was his sole source of comfort. His second cousin is filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, but the two were unaware of their relationship until the making of Desperado. He moved to the San Fernando Valley in 2011 to be closer to his mother, who suffered a knee injury and died in 2013.
Wife – Children
Trejo is married and divorced four times, with three children. He was married to Debbie from 1971 to 1975 and Joanne from 1975 to 1978. Trejo has three children, Danny, born in 1981, Gilbert, born in 1988, and Danielle, born in 1990. His eldest child, nicknamed “Danny Boy”, is from a relationship with Diana Walton; they were together from 1978 to 1983. His latter two children are from a relationship with Maeve Crommie. They were together from 1986 to 1997, and he has also helped her raise her two sons from a subsequent relationship.In 1997, he married Debbie Shreve; they separated in 2005 and he filed for divorce in 2009.
His first kid, called “Danny Boy,” is the result of a relationship with Diana Walton, which lasted from 1978 till 1983.His last two children are from a relationship with Maeve Crommie. They were together from 1986 to 1997, and he also assisted her in raising her two sons from a subsequent relationship.He married Debbie Shreve in 1997; they split in 2005, and he filed for divorce in 2009.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $500 thousand.
Restaurants
Trejo has developed a number of popular Los Angeles eateries. In January 2016, he opened a taco restaurant on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, as well as his own beer, coffee, and clothing businesses, with ice cream sandwiches in development. His first stop was Trejo’s Tacos, followed by Trejo’s Cantina and Trejo’s Coffee & Donuts. Trejo’s Donuts is located at the northeast corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Highland Avenue. As of 2020, he has eight restaurants. Trejo’s Tacos has expanded into Detroit, Michigan and Notting Hill (London) by 2024. Rainbow cauliflower tacos were named one of the Los Angeles Times’ top ten favorite recipes of 2017. Executive chef Mason Royal oversees the eateries. As of 2018, their most recent initiative had been the expansion of a donut food truck in Las Vegas, Nevada.
House
He spent $550,000 on a new pad in the San Fernando Valley. The “Machete” star’s new 3,150-square-foot home has all the classics: four bedrooms, five bathrooms, and a large backyard.
Blood In, Blood Out
Morgan approved of his decision to play a role in Blood In, Blood Out rather than American Me. Trejo recalls feeling uneasy with several of the other performers during rehearsals for Blood In, Blood Out due to their established status. Trejo frequently had flashbacks to his time in San Quentin, and filming sequences in C550, his previous cell, only worsened his thoughts. Though his prior works provided possibilities, Trejo credits Blood In, Blood Out with bringing him “legitimate, worldwide fame.”
The Masked Singer
Trejo competed as “Raccoon” on season five of The Masked Singer in 2021, but was eliminated in his second performance. The Masked Singer is an American reality singing competition television series that debuted on Fox on January 2, 2019. It is part of the Masked Singer franchise, which began with the South Korean version of the show King of Mask Singer, in which celebrities sing songs while wearing head-to-toe costumes and face masks to conceal their identities. The program, hosted by Nick Cannon, has panelists who identify the identities of celebrities by interpreting clues presented throughout the season.
Movies
♦ 2024 – The Night They Came Home
♦ 2023 – 1521: The Quest for Love and Freedom
♦ 2023 – The Legend of Johnny Jones
♦ 2023 – Detour 95
♦ 2023 – Alone Today
♦ 2023 – The Curse of Wolf Mountain
♦ 2023 – Death on the Border
♦ 2022 – Fire-Man’s Fetish
♦ 2022 – A Pray for Judas
♦ 2022 – Vampfather
♦ 2022 – The Legend of La Llorona
♦ 2022 – THE PREY: Legend of Karnoctus
♦ 2022 – A Tale of Two Guns
♦ 2022 – Good Mourning
♦ 2022 – Minions: The Rise of Gru
♦ 2022 – Caroltyn
♦ 2022 – Smile or Hug
♦ 2022 – Clerks III
TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Hot Wheels Let’s Race
♦ 2024 – Mr. Birchum
♦ 2023 – Hell’s Kitchen
♦ 2023 – RuPaul’s Drag Race
♦ 2023 – RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked
♦ 2023 – Lopez vs Lopez
♦ 2023 – The Patrick Star Show
♦ 2023 – Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
♦ 2022-23 – The Ghost and Molly McGee
♦ 2022 – The Book of Boba Fett
♦ 2022 – PBC – Ricky
♦ 2022 – Better Things
♦ 2022 – Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend
♦ 2021 – American Gods
♦ 2021 – The Masked Singer
♦ 2021 – My American Family
♦ 2021 – Fast & Furious Spy Racers
♦ 2021 – The Casagrandes
♦ 2021 – American Horror Stories
♦ 2021 – Muppets Haunted Mansion