Food has long been one of the ways that he has built community \u002D even in prison.
He also stars in kids’ movies and is a father, restaurateur, businessman, volunteer drug counselor and motivational speaker who has been in recovery for more than 50 years. In recent years, he has added cookbook author to his résumé.His first book, “Trejo’s Tacos: Recipes and Stories from L.A.
It also includes a generous helping of inspiration. Think you can’t do something? Trejo, 79, is here to say: “You got this. ” His remarkable life story bears out that determination. It has been well chronicled through interviews and in the 2020 film “Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo.” A heroin user by the time he was 12, Trejo was convicted of armed robbery and spent much of the 1960s in California prisons, where he took up boxing and, eventually, got sober.
His foray into acting began when he visited the set of 1985’s “Runaway Train” to counsel a fellow recovering addict and ended up landing a bit part boxing with actor Eric Roberts. There, he became reacquainted with Edward Bunker, also a former San Quentin inmate, who became a writer and movie consultant, and Trejo’s mentor as he moved into acting.
Chances are, if you’ve watched an action film in the past 35 years or so, you’ve seen him on the silver screen. He has been in more than 300 movies, working his way from villainous extra roles to leads in such varied films as the Machete and Spy Kids franchises – even portraying a hungry Marcia Brady in a Snickers commercial.
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