Birthplace: Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
biography
A native of the East Los Angeles section of Pocoina, Danny Trejo spent his formative years in the California penal system, scoring drugs, fighting and smoldering in solitary, all fine research for the many roles he would later play. Despite heroin addiction and alcoholism, he became an undefeated lightweight and welterweight boxing champ at San Quentin before joining a 12-step program and straightening his life out prior to his parole in 1969. Outside, Trejo's speaking ability made him a star on the AA and NA (Narcotics Anonymous) circuit, and it was in his capacity as a drug counselor that he
