Danny Arroyo

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.