Elizabeth Avellán Veloz (born November 8, 1960) is a Venezuelan-born American film producer.'Secuestro Express': Jonathan Jakubowicz and Elizabeth Avellán on Venezuela's surprise hit
Biography Avellán was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Her grandfather, Gonzalo Veloz Mancera, created the first privately owned Venezuelan television station, Televisa. As a teenager, she moved together with her family to Houston, United States, where she graduated from Rice University.
She first worked as an administrative associate for Gerhard Fonken, an executive vice president of the University of Texas. In 1994, to prepare for the production of Desperado, she took production classes at UCLA.
She was the co-owner and vice president of Troublemaker Studios, the production company that she and her former husband, Robert Rodriguez, founded in 2000. In 2009, she worked in the film Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock where she voiced the baby who was portrayed by Bianca Rodriguez. Avellán was also executive producer of In and Out of Focus, a documentary about balancing motherhood and a career in the film business.
In September 2019, she bought the remake rights of The Whistler to create an English-language franchise of the movie with her production company Eya Productions. In January 2020, along with Rana Joy Glickman, Avellán launched the production company Tealhouse Entertainment. The Whistler franchise was to be produced by this new company.
Other roles Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Awards 2007: Texas Film Hall of Fame Ann Richards Award
Personal life From 1989 to 2008, Avellán was married to Robert Rodriguez, whom she had met at the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. They have five children together.
Filmography Crew work YearFilmCredited as ProducerActressAnimatorOther 1991 Bedhead 1992 El Mariachi 1995 Desperado 1996 From Dusk till Dawn 1997 Full Tilt Boogie 1997 Real Stories of the Donut Men 1998 The Faculty 1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money 1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter 1999 Outside Providence 2000 Hollywood Goes to Hell 2001 Spy Kids 2002 In & Out of Focus 2002 Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico 2003 VH1: All Access 2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over 2005 Sin City 2005 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D 2005 Sin City: The Premiere 2005 Starz on the Set: Sin City 2005 Secuestro Express 2005 Curandero 2006Hoodwinked! 2007 Truth in Terms of Beauty 2007 Grindhouse 2007 Death Proof 2007 Planet Terror 2008 The Kids of Widney High 2008 Santos 2009 Entre líneas 2009 Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock 2010 Machete 2010 Predators 2011 Spy Kids: All the Time in the World 2012 Angels Sing 2014 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For 2023 Spy Kids: Armageddon
Acting Year Title Role Note 2009 Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock Baby (voice)
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