Elizabeth Avellán Biography
Elizabeth Avellán is an American film producer of Venezuelan origin. She began her career as an administrative assistant for Gerhard Fonken, the University of Texas’ executive vice president.
Elizabeth Avellán Age
She was born Elizabeth Avellán Veloz on November 8, 1960, in Caracas, Venezuela. Veloz is 62 years old as of November 2022.
Elizabeth Avellán Family
Avellán was born in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. Her grandpa, Gonzalo Veloz Mancera, founded Televisa, Venezuela’s first privately owned television network. She went to Houston, Texas, with her family as a teenager, where she graduated from Rice University.
Elizabeth Avellán Husband- Children
Elizabeth Avellán Veloz was married to Robert Rodriguez from 1989 to 2007, whom she met at the University of Texas at Austin in 1988. They have a total of five children. Rocket Rodriguez, Racer Rodriguez, Rebel Rodriguez, Rogue Rodriguez, and Rhiannon Rodriguez.
Elizabeth Avellán Career
She began her career as an administrative assistant for Gerhard Fonken, the University of Texas’ executive vice president. She attended UCLA production classes in 1994 to prepare for the production of Desperado. She was the co-founder and vice president of Troublemaker Studios, which she and her ex-husband, Robert Rodriguez, formed in 2000. Avellán also served as the executive producer of In and Out of Focus, a documentary about combining parenting and a career in film. In September 2019, she acquired the remake rights to The Whistler in order to launch an English-language franchise through her production firm, Eya Productions. Elizabeth Avellán Veloz, along with Rana Joy Glickman, founded Tealhouse Entertainment in January 2020.
She has played a key role in building Austin, Texas as a thriving film town, in addition to producing family and genre films that have made over a billion and a half dollars at the box office. Avellán began her producing career in 1991, when she co-founded Los Hooligans Productions with Robert Rodriguez to work on their feature picture “El Mariachi.” “El Mariachi,” which cost about $7,000 to produce, won Audience Awards at the Sundance and Deauville Film Festivals in 1993. She has produced films such as the “Spy Kids” franchise, “Sin City,” “Predators,” “Machete,” “Desperado,” “From Dusk Till Dawn,” and “Once Upon a Time in Mexico” throughout the last two decades.
She also executive produced “Blacktino,” which had its international premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, and “Secuestro Express,” which was released by Miramax Films. Avellán is committed to giving undiscovered voices a platform while collaborating with seasoned craftspeople and established filmmakers. She is passionate about Latina / Latino storytelling, which is close to Elizabeth’s heart. She has produced three independent films in the last two years, “The Blazing World,” which will be released in 2021, “Deadland,” and “Switch Up,” both of which are in post-production, with the goal of providing opportunities for undiscovered voices and diversity among the cast and crews. Instilling hope in the next generation is a vocation that comes effortlessly to Elizabeth, a mother of six children.
Elizabeth Avellán Net Worth
Avellan has an estimated net worth of 15 million dollars.