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

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Biography

Avellán was born in

Caracas, Venezuela Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

. Her grandfather, Gonzalo Veloz Mancera, created the first privately owned Venezuelan television station,

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. As a teenager, she moved together with her family to

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, where she graduated from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

. 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 is the current co-owner and vice president of

Troublemaker Studios Troublemaker Studios is a film production company founded and owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellán. The company is based in Austin, Texas and is at the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport. It shares ...

, the production company that she and her former husband,

Robert Rodriguez Robert Anthony Rodriguez (; born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker, composer, and visual effects supervisor. He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of Texas. Rodriguez directed the 1992 ac ...

, founded in 2000. 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 ''The Whistler'' is an American radio mystery drama which ran from May 16, 1942, until September 22, 1955, on the west-coast regional CBS radio network. The show was also broadcast in Chicago and over Armed Forces Radio. On the west coast, it w ...

'' 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

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Awards

* 2007:

Texas Film Hall of Fame The Texas Film Hall of Fame honors Texans who have made a significant contribution to film or filmmaking, as well as non-Texans who have made significant strides in the advancement of the Texan film industry. Classic Texas films are also honored, w ...

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 The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

in 1988. They had five children together.

Films

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Avellan, Elizabeth 1960 births Living people Rice University alumni Venezuelan emigrants to the United States People from Houston Film producers from Texas American women film producers People from Caracas