Everyone's favourite machete-wielding Mexican has made a 20+ year career of playing an uncompromising badass. When it all comes down to it, there's various reasons for Trejo's realistic portrayals. Having grown up in a childhood littered with drug use and criminal misdemeanours, the young Daniel Trejo found himself locked up for various drug charges and armed robbery. Spending his time in prison to better himself, Trejo gave further evidence to being a genuine badass by winning several boxing titles in San Quentin. Upon successfully completing a 12-step rehabilitation program, Trejo's look and reputation earned him some of his earlier roles.From there on out, especially after teaming with Robert Rodriguez, Trejo has never looked back, often playing a clinical, charming badass who likes to play with knifes. With 2014 now upon us, Trejo will shortly be 70-years-old, and he shows no signs of changing his ways any time soon. Exception To The Rule: In Rob Zombie's 2007 Halloween, Trejo played a quiet, thoughtful, well-meaning janitor in the prison that housed the troubled Michael Myers. Despite his friendly demeanour towards Michael for years, The Shape thought nothing of dropping a TV set on the head of Trejo's Ismael Cruz. One can only imagine how that fight would've played out if Trejo was in his full Machete gear.
