Raoul Trujillo

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Raoul Trujillo (2019)

Raoul Trujillo (born May 8, 1955 in New Mexico ) is an American indigenous actor , dancer and choreographer .

Life

Trujillo comes from New Mexico and belongs to the Genízaros ethnic group , who emerged from the mixture of predominantly enslaved prairie Indians with Spanish / Mexican settlers from the 16th to 19th centuries. He himself traces his roots back to the Apaches , Ute , Spanish Moors and Jews as well as French . In 1977 he was first seen in the theater in the play Equus by Peter Shaffer .

As a dancer, he performed as a soloist and teacher at the Nikolais Dance Theater ( Nikolais / Louis Dance Lab ) in New York City between 1980 and 1986 and toured five continents. He worked as a choreographer and co-director for the first two years of its existence at the American Indian Dance Theater , which was founded in 1987.

In 1988 Trujillo began his film career. He hosted the 1993 mini-series Dancing , which was twice nominated for an Emmy . This was followed by the action fantasy film Highlander III - The Legend (1994) with Christopher Lambert . He had supporting roles as an Indian in the film drama Black Robe - On the River of the Iroquois (1991) by Bruce Beresford , which deals with the proselytizing of the Indians in North America, and in the dramatic adventure film The Secret of the Blue Butterfly (2004) by director Léa Pool with William Hurt in the Leading role looking for a rare butterfly in the tropical rainforest for a sick boy. In the dramatic television series Nikita with Peta Wilson and Roy Dupuis , Trujillo played the agent Chris Ferreira in a guest role in the first episode of the third season in 1999 . He had a supporting role in The New World (2005), which was once nominated for an Oscar and starred in Colin Farrell and Christopher Plummer , directed by Terrence Malick . 2006 Trujillo starred in Mel Gibson's action drama Apocalypto , in which he played the Maya hunter Zero Wolf .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rebecca Krafft and Brian O'Doherty (Eds.): The Arts on Television, 1976-1990: Fifteen Years of Cultural Programming. , Media Arts: Film / Radio / Television Program, National Endowment for the Arts, 1991, pp. 164-165.
  2. ↑ Polly Summar: NM Native Raoul Trujillo Brings Indigenous Culture to the Silver Screen , Albuquerque Jornal online December 9, 2006, accessed November 23, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Trujillo, Raoul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, dancer, and choreographer of Native American descent
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH New Mexico , USA