# Elizabeth Avellán

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 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, 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.

## Filmography
### Crew work

| Year | Film | Credited as | Credited as | Credited as | Credited as |
| Year | Film | Producer | Actress | Animator | Other |
| 1991 | Bedhead | | | Yes | Yes |
| 1992 | El Mariachi | Yes | | | Yes |
| 1995 | Desperado | Yes | | | |
| 1996 | From Dusk till Dawn | Yes | | | |
| 1997 | Full Tilt Boogie | | | | Yes |
| 1997 | Real Stories of the Donut Men | Yes | | | |
| 1998 | The Faculty | Yes | | | |
| 1999 | From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money | Yes | | | |
| 1999 | From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter | Yes | | | |
| 1999 | Outside Providence | | | | Yes |
| 2000 | Hollywood Goes to Hell | | | | Yes |
| 2001 | Spy Kids | Yes | | | |
| 2002 | In & Out of Focus | | | | Yes |
| 2002 | Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams | Yes | | | |
| 2003 | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Yes | | | |
| 2003 | VH1: All Access | | | | Yes |
| 2003 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | Yes | | | |
| 2005 | Sin City | Yes | | | |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D | Yes | | | |
| 2005 | Sin City: The Premiere | | | | Yes |
| 2005 | Starz on the Set: Sin City | | | | Yes |
| 2005 | Secuestro Express | Yes | | | |
| 2005 | Curandero | Yes | | | |
| 2006 | Hoodwinked! | | | | Yes |
| 2007 | Truth in Terms of Beauty | Yes | | | |
| 2007 | Grindhouse | Yes | | | |
| 2007 | Death Proof | Yes | | | |
| 2007 | Planet Terror | Yes | | | |
| 2008 | The Kids of Widney High | Yes | | | |
| 2008 | Santos | Yes | | | |
| 2009 | Entre líneas | Yes | | | |
| 2009 | Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock | Yes | Yes | | |
| 2010 | Machete | Yes | | | |
| 2010 | Predators | Yes | | | |
| 2011 | Spy Kids: All the Time in the World | Yes | | | |
| 2012 | Angels Sing | Yes | | | |
| 2014 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Yes | | | |
| 2023 | Spy Kids: Armageddon | Yes | | | |

### Acting

| Year | Title | Role | Note |
| 2009 | Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock | Baby (voice) | |