Elizabeth Avellan

Elizabeth Avellan was born on Nov 08, 1960 in Venezuela. Elizabeth Avellan's big-screen debut came with El Mariachi directed by Robert Rodriguez in 1992. Elizabeth Avellan is known for Grindhouse directed by Robert Rodriguez, Kurt Russell stars as Stuntman Mike (segment "Death Proof") and Zoë Bell as Zoë Bell (segment "Death Proof"). The upcoming new movie Elizabeth Avellan plays is The Blazing World which will be released on Oct 15, 2021.

Elizabeth Avellan was born in Caracas, Venezuela, where her grandfather, Gonzalo Veloz, pioneered commercial television. At thirteen, she moved to Houston with her family and later graduated from Rice University, where she had her first behind-the-scenes experience working as stage manager and prop master for several student productions. She moved to Austin in 1986 to work in the Office of the Executive Vice-President and Provost of the University of Texas, continuing her studies in film production, art, and architecture. There she meet Robert Rodriguez - cult filmmaker and her husband to be. Avellan worked as an animator on Rodriguez's award-winning 16mm film, Bedhead, which aired on PBS after gathering acclaim on the festival circuit. She and Robert co-founded Los Hooligans Productions when the two began work on El mariachi (1992) in 1991. Since then, Avellan has co-produced Robert Rodriguez's Une nuit en enfer (1996), Desperado (1995), The Faculty (1998), and upcoming Spy Kids (2001). Besides she developed several scripts and produced with Pamela Cederquist and Rana Joy Glickman, Real Stories of the Donut Men, a dark comedy written and directed by Beeaje Quick, which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March, 1997. Additionally, Avellan served as producers' rep. with Rana Joy Glickman for Love You Don't Touch Me, a romantic comedy premiered at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.