Biography
Raoul Trujillo is an American actor, dancer, and choreographer. A former soloist with the Nikolais Dance Theatre, he is the original choreographer and co-director for the American Indian Dance Theatre. He is the host for a series of dancing programs. Trujillo's career spans more than 30 years in film and theatre. He is perhaps best known for playing Zero Wolf, the Mayan villain in Apocalypto (2006), directed by Mel Gibson, and for playing the Iroquois chief Kiotseaton in the film Black Robe.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Outbreak
2025
as Chief Mike Cortez
A State Park Ranger and his wife, grappling with the disappearance of their teenage son, face a mysterious outbreak that threatens not only their rela...
Blue Beetle
2023
as Carapax
Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to ...
The Last Manhunt
2022
as Hyde
In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a confrontation gone terribly wrong. With President ...
America: The Motion Picture
2021
as Geronimo (voice)
A chainsaw-wielding George Washington teams with beer-loving bro Sam Adams to take down the Brits in a tongue-in-cheek riff on the American Revolution...
Cold Pursuit
2019
as Giles 'Thorpe' Wills
The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he h...
22 Chaser
2018
as Wayne
One of the city's last decent tow truck drivers risks everything on a desperate quest to become king of the road and provide for his struggling family...
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018
as Rafael
Agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the United States border.
Octavio Is Dead!
2018
as Octavio
The daughter of an overbearing mother enters the rich and strange world of her deceased father — a man she never knew.
The Blessing
2018
Executive Producer
Intimate portrait of a Navajo family in Piñon, Arizona, where the primary industry of coal mining is destroying the mountains held sacred to the commu...
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
2017
as Le Prophète
Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
Pretty Is
2017
as Leander
In rural South Carolina, a God-fearing family with a flirtatious sixteen-year-old daughter invites a mysterious man to their home.
Blood Father
2016
as The Cleaner
An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
Sicario
2015
as Rafael
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexi...
Persecuted
2014
as Mr. Gray
Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther...
Riddick
2013
as Lockspur
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dan...
Blaze You Out
2013
as Brujo
Lupe, a strong-willed aspiring DJ, and her younger sister Alicia live in the Esperanza Valley, a community that is suffocating by generations of heroi...
Cowboys & Aliens
2011
as Black Knife
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterio...
Triassic Attack
2010
as Dakota
A Native American owner of a kitschy roadside museum accidentally brings to life three dinosaur fossils. Now really annoyed, the giant dinos wreak hav...
Love Ranch
2010
as Hernan Prado
Story of a couple that starts the first legal brothel in Nevada and a boxer they own a piece of.
Edgar Floats
2010
as Jesus (as Raoul Trujillo)
A police psychologist uses his skills to become a bounty hunter.
Doc West
2009
as Medicine Man
After bandits steal his poker winnings this American legend makes his way to the next town in search of them. Seeking out his revenge during a poker g...
Apocalypto
2006
as Zero Wolf
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a...
The New World
2005
as Tomocomo
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
The New World
2005
Choreographer
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Blood Trail
2005
as Bloody Hands Spirit
Adrian Pasdar, R.J. Preston and Barry Tubb star in this eerie film that melds two distinct genres: the old-fashioned Western and the jump-out-of-your-...
Frankenfish
2004
as Ricardo
When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers is assigned to investigate the mu...
The Blue Butterfly
2004
as Alejo
Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on ...
Betrayed
2003
as Bill Lebret
The story of a fictional town suffering from an outbreak of severe water contamination.
The Adventures of Young Brave
1999
as Horton
Two young girls awaken the spirit of a native from the old west whose magical powers lead to hilarious misadventures in a comedy romp the whole family...
August 32nd on Earth
1999
as Thom (uncredited)
After escaping unscathed from a car accident, photo model Simone decides that having a baby is the only way to give her vacant life some meaning. She ...
Song of Hiawatha
1997
as Pau-Puk-Keewis
This adaptation of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells the tale of a mighty Ojibwe leader as he falls in love and strives for peace.
Sisters and Other Strangers
1997
as Jimmy Coyote
A woman (Joanna Kerns), at odds with her eccentric sister (Debrah Farentino) over a real-estate deal, becomes the prime suspect when the latter is fou...
Black Fox: The Price of Peace
1995
as Running Dog
After blaming Britt for his wife's decision to stay with the Native Americans who captured her, an abusive husband organizes a party of vigilantes to ...
Black Fox
1995
as Running Dog
A former slave affects peace between Indian tribes and homesteaders in 1860s West Texas.
Highlander III: The Sorcerer
1994
as Warrior #1
Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Japanese sorcerer Nakano. When an evil immortal named...
Paris, France
1994
as Minter
A writer has torrid fantasy affairs with young men.
Trial at Fortitude Bay
1994
as Simon Amituq
Defence attorney Gina Antonelli is sent to an Arctic village to defend 19 year-old Pauloosie, accused of committing a violent crime. Her rival, prosec...
L'automne sauvage
1992
as Régis Santerre
After two boys are found dead and scalped in a remote cabin, a corrupt police chief puts the blame on an innocent indigenous man. Charlie Miton, who l...
Shadow of the Wolf
1992
as Big Tooth
In the 1930s, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes perse...
The Swordsman
1992
as Jojo
Cop and accomplished fencer Andrew is assigned to protect archaeologist and museum curator Julie Wilkins, the only witness to the theft of the legenda...
The Broken Cord
1992
as Emil Bear Heart
Fact-based story of an idealistic single dad who discovers that his beloved Native American adopted son is afflicted with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and c...
The Adjuster
1991
as Matthew, his lover
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
Montreal Stories
1991
as Homme passion
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first ...
Black Robe
1991
as Kiotseaton
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, ...
White Light
1991
as Hatchet
A police officer recovers from a nearly fatal injury with visions of a mysterious woman.
Clearcut
1991
as Eugene
A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to ...
Scanners II: The New Order
1991
as Peter Drak
A breed of humans with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities -- the scanners -- are being recruited by a corrupt police commander, John Forrester,...
Divided Loyalties
1990
as Cornplanter
Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks, and the events that led to the birth of Canada as a nation. During the time of the American Revolution, w...
Killing Faith
N/A
as Shakespeare
In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journ...
13 Steps
N/A
as Tero
The Golban siblings flee Mexico to escape a brutal Mexican cartel. Little do they know a cartel hitman has followed them to their new home in Canada.