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Danny Arroyo

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Danny Arroyo

Born January 29, 1981 in The Bronx, New York, United States32 films

Danny Arroyo is an actor/writer/producer/director with a Bachelor's Degree in film production and script writing, and has over 80 film/TV/commercial credits. He has won four "Best Actor" awards at various film festivals. Loves to meditate daily (has not missed a day in almost 8 straight years), reading books (especially comic books), working out, writing (screenplays and journals), playing fantasy football, video games, and seeing classic Hollywood films on the big screen.

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Arroyo is a series regular on the Amazon series Sangre Negra... Black Blood (2022), for which he won the "Best Actor" award at the Vive Latino America Awards Show for playing Detective Christian Santos. Sangre Negra... Black Blood also stars veteran actors Erik Estrada and Eric Roberts.

Arroyo is the lead actor in five feature films. Main lead role in an action thriller titled Day Labor (2024) coming soon, a lead role in a Western themed suspense thriller titled The Stolen Valley (2024) coming soon, a lead role in a suspense action thriller titled The Charisma Killers (2024) coming soon, the main lead role in an Amazon Prime romantic comedy film titled Switched at Love (2022), the main lead role in a suspense cop drama thriller titled Nobody's Angel (2022), and a lead role in an Amazon Prime and Tubi teen drama titled Adolescents of Chymera (2022). Arroyo plays Rico Fisher, the main lead character in the true life story film The Last Smile, available on Amazon Prime, Tubi and iTunes, for which he won Best Actor at the Silicon Valley Film Festival and was nominated at the Burbank International Film Festival. Arroyo is the producer, co-writer, and actor on TV show pilot, The Detective starring Michael Madsen.

Arroyo wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the comedy short film Bite! (2018), available on Amazon Prime, winner of 10 film festival awards (4 "Best Comedy" awards, 2 "Best Actor" and 1 "Best Director"). It is based on a true story of when his home was invaded by bed bugs.

Arroyo has four screenplays in active development. His suspense mini-series titled Socio, the action video game dramedy thriller movie titled Gamers, the romantic comedy titled LONELY SATURDAY NIGHT SYNDROME, and the true story suspense feature film titled OUT OF CUBA.

Danny Arroyo is an advocate of the representation of Latino's in entertainment. He produced, wrote, and hosted the successful live event for the Television Academy of Arts & Science (Emmys) titled, "HOLA: THE PHENOMENAL GROWTH OF LATINO TV" which featured the Presidents/CEOs of various Latino TV stations and networks.

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Filmography

32 films as actor
  1. TBARobbery at the Rockvale TheatreDanny
  2. 2025A Life of Sunshine
  3. 2024The Charisma KillersBobby Hughes
  4. 2024Day LaborDerrick Reyes
  5. 2024The Stolen ValleyLito
  6. 2023Apocalypse LoveSpencer (voice)
  7. 2022Nobody's AngelsJohn Patrick
  8. 2021Switched at LoveJackson
  9. 2021Adolescents of ChymeraLucky
  10. 2021FanFobiaDuncan
  11. 2019The Extraordinary OrdinaryJoshua
  12. 2018Body of SinPurcell
  13. 2017A Moving RomanceAndrew
  14. 2016The Last SmileRico Fisher
  15. 2014The Before TimeMiguel Sanchez
  16. 2014Five ThirteenWalter Anderson
  17. 2013Jet SetLouis
  18. 2013The Caterpillar's KimonoNBA Player #1
  19. 2011Hercules Saves ChristmasRick Wilder
  20. 2010Kill Katie MaloneProfessor Saldana
  21. 2010GroupieChuck Stiles
  22. 2009Repo Chick666
  23. 2009Spring BreakdownJuan Carlos
  24. 2008Street WarriorSanto
  25. 2008Hotel CaliforniaDanny
  26. 2007Richard IIILord Grey
  27. 2006Death RowAngel
  28. 2003White RushCarlos Devon
  29. 1999The Velocity of GaryThug #1 on Street
  30. 1998Hard TimePepe
  31. 1998Lethal Weapon 4Gomez
  32. 1995Let It Be MeHip Hop Dancer