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.
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, Avellán 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