
Danny Arroyo
Department: Acting
Biography
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. 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.
Known For

Lethal Weapon 4
1998

Death Row
2006

Switched at Love
2021

Richard III
2007

Repo Chick
2009

Apocalypse Love
2023

The Charisma Killers
2024

The Before Time
2014

Hercules Saves Christmas
2011

Day Labor
2024

Kill Katie Malone
2010

Body of Sin
2018

Five Thirteen
2014

Nobody's Angels
2022

A Moving Romance
2017

Groupie
2010

Spring Breakdown
2009

The Velocity of Gary
1999

Adolescents of Chymera
2021

Jet Set
2013

The Stolen Valley
2024

The Extraordinary Ordinary
2019

The Last Smile
2016

The Caterpillar's Kimono
2013

Let It Be Me
1995

Hard Time
1998

White Rush
2003

Street Warrior
2008

Hotel California
2008

FanFobia
2021

Robbery at the Rockvale Theatre
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V.I.P.
1998

ER
1994

Without a Trace
2002

The Resistance
2010

Wild West Chronicles
2021

Nova Vita
2021

Moloney
1996

Step by Step
1991

Shasta McNasty
1999

Resurrection Blvd.
2000

Spyder Games
2001

Spyder Games
2001

24
2001

General Hospital: Night Shift
2007

My Own Worst Enemy
2008

Sangre Negra
2017

Pluribus
2025