Raoul Trujillo
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Raoul Maximiano Trujillo de Chauvelon (born May 8, 1955) is an American actor, dancer, choreographer, and stage producer.
He is the original choreographer and co-director of the American Indian Dance Theatre, and he has performed as a soloist with the Nikolais Dance Theatre.
Trujillo's career includes more than 30 years in film, television, and theatre, as well as directing a number of dance competitions.
He is a nominee for Critics' Choice Award. Trujillo is best known for his role in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (2006), and his appearance in the film Black Robe as Zero Wolf, a ruthless Mayan slave catcher and the main antagonist, as well as playing the Iroquois chief Kiotseaton.
He has appeared in numerous high-profile and well-known films, including The New World, Cowboys and Aliens, Riddick, Blood Father, Sicario, and Sicario: Day of the Soldado.
He appeared in hundreds of television shows, including True Blood, Lost Girl, Da Vinci's Demons, Salem, The Blacklist, and Jamestown.
He appears on Mayans M.C. currently. Che "Taza" Romero is a term that refers to him.
Early life
Trujillo was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He spent three years in the United States Army in Germany after high school. He spent time in Taos, New Mexico, as an alpine ski instructor. He left the world of professional skiing after traveling extensively through Mexico, Central and South America on his way to teach in Bariloche, Argentina.
Career
He started working in theatre as a scenic painter and performed his first job as an actor/dancer in 1977's Equus. Pilobolus, Martha Graham, and Rudolf Nureyev were among his first modern dance and ballet performances in Los Angeles in 1978; he first saw him perform in Los Angeles; He spent two years with the Toronto Dance Theatre and Nikolais/Louis Dance Lab in New York City, where he worked extensively with scholarships. He was asked to join Nikolais Dance Theatre under the direction of master Alwin Nikolais, who became his mentor and began touring the world. During this period, he also learned scenic, costume, and lighting design. He began his solo career as a dancer and choreographer, as well as inincorporating native myths and legends in his work after leaving the company.
He became the choreographer and co-director for the American Indian Dance Theatre, the first professional dance company to blend traditional dance with modern interpretations of myths and legends after a decade of being a dancer. He choreographed "The Shaman's Journey" for the Asia Society in New York and later made it into a short film based on PBS' Alive from Off Center. He continued to work with creative partners Alejandro Roncerria and René Highway in Toronto. Native Earth Performing Arts's work culminated in the creation of good theatre pieces. Alejandro's work with the Banff Centre sparked the establishment of the Aboriginal Dance Project, which helped the Banff Centre to further educate Indigenous dancers from around the world. He received the CANCOM Ross Charles award in Canada in 2002 for attending the Banf Center's screenwriters course for aboriginal storytellers.
Trujilo began his film acting career in 1988 in Canada and now has over 107 film and television credits. For Terrence Malick's The New World, choreographed the dances, ceremonies, and rituals, as well as acting in the role of Tomocomo.