Daniel "Danny" Trejo (born May 16, 1944) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the role of bad guy or the anti-hero. Trejo is of Mexican descent. He was born in Livermore, California in the San Francisco Bay area. Trejo is the second cousin of writer-director Robert Rodriguez. He was worked almost all of Rodriguez's movies. These include the "Spy Kids" series, "Desperado", "Grindhouse" and "From Dusk Till Dawn"