Elizabeth Avellán Biography

Venezuelan-American film producerIn this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Avellán and the second or maternal family name is Veloz.

Elizabeth Avellán Veloz (born November 8, 1960) is a Venezuelan-born American film producer.

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 *ociate for Gerhard Fonken, an executive vice president of the University of Texas. In 1994, to prepare for the production of Desperado, she took production cl*es 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. Avellán was also executive producer of In and Out of Focus, a do*entary 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, Elizabeth Avellán Veloz 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 2007, Elizabeth Avellán Veloz was married to Robert Rodriguez, whom she had met at the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. They have five children together.

Films

References

External links

• Elizabeth Avellán at IMDb

Films written

• From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (1999)
• UglyDolls (2019, also produced)

Produced only

• Death Proof (2007)
• Predators (2010)

Television

• El Mariachi (2014)
• From Dusk till Dawn: The Series (2014–2016)
• Matador (2014)
• Lucha Underground (2014–2018)
• The Director's Chair (2014–2018)
• Spy Kids: Mission Critical (2018)
• The Mandalorian (2020)
  • "Chapter 14: The Tragedy"
• The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
  • "Chapter 1: Stranger in a Strange Land"
  • "Chapter 2: The Tribes of Tatooine"

See also

• Troublemaker Studios
• From Dusk till Dawn (franchise)
• Mexico Trilogy
• Rebel Without a Crew (1995)
• Spy Kids franchise
• Grindhouse
• Chingon
  • Mexican Spaghetti Western
• El Rey Network

Family

• Elizabeth Avellán (wife)
• Patricia Vonne (sister)