Elizabeth Avellán
Appearance
Elizabeth Avellán | |
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Born | Elizabeth Avellán Veloz November 8, 1960 |
Other names | Elizabeth Rodriguez |
Occupation(s) | producer animator actress |
Years active | 1991–present |
Spouse | |
Children | 5 |
Elizabeth Avellán Veloz (born November 8, 1960) is a Venezuelan-born American film producer.[1]
Life and career
Avellán was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Her grandfather, Gonzalo Veloz Mancera, created the first privately owned Venezuelan television station, Televisa.[1] As a teenager, she and her family moved to Houston, United States, where she graduated from Rice University.
She is the current 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 documentary about balancing motherhood and a career in the film business.
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Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- People from Caracas
- American film actresses
- Rice University alumni
- Venezuelan emigrants to the United States
- Venezuelan film actresses
- 20th-century American actresses
- 21st-century American actresses
- Actresses from Houston
- Film producers from Texas
- Venezuelan film producers
- American women film producers
- American film biography stubs
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