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June 20, 1968

Robert Anthony Rodríguez

Elizabeth Avellan (July 9, 1990 - April 12, 2008) (divorced) 5 children

Dated Rose McGowan (2007-2009)

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Director

2011 Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World

2010 Machete

2009 Shorts

2007 Planet Terror

2007 Grindhouse (segment "Planet Terror" / fake trailer segment "Machete")

2005 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D

2005 Sin City

2004 How to Make Cool Home Movies (video short)

2004 Ten Minute Film School: Big Movies Made Cheap (video documentary short)

2004 Inside Troublemaker Studios (video documentary short)

2004 Ten Minute Cooking School: Puerco Pibil (video documentary short)

2004 Ten Minute Flick School: Fast, Cheap and in Control (video documentary short)

2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico

2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

2003 Del Castillo (video) (live segments)

2002 Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams

2001 Spy Kids

1998 The Faculty

1998 Ten More Minutes: Anatomy of a Shootout (video documentary short) (uncredited)

1998 The Robert Rodriguez Ten Minute Film School (video documentary short) (uncredited)

1996 From Dusk Till Dawn

1995 Four Rooms (segment "The Misbehavers")

1995 Desperado

1994 Roadracers (TV movie)

1994 Rebel Highway (TV series)

1992 El mariachi

1991 Bedhead (short)

Producer

Red Sonja (producer)

2011 Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (producer)

2010 Machete (producer)

2010 Predators (producer)

2009 Shorts (executive producer, producer)

2009 Addicto de Salsa (TV movie) (co-producer)

2007 Planet Terror (producer)

2007 Death Proof (producer)

2007 Grindhouse (producer)

2005 Curandero (executive producer)

2004 Ten Minute Cooking School: Puerco Pibil (video documentary short) (producer)

2004 Ten Minute Flick School: Fast, Cheap and in Control (video documentary short) (producer)

2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (producer)

2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (producer)

2002 Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (producer)

2001 Spy Kids (producer)

1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (video) (executive producer)

1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (video) (executive producer)

1998 The Faculty (producer - uncredited)

1996 From Dusk Till Dawn (executive producer)

1995 Desperado (producer)

1992 El mariachi (producer)

Editor

2010 Machete

2009 Shorts

2007 Planet Terror

2007 Grindhouse (segment "Planet Terror")

2005 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D

2005 Sin City

2004 Inside Troublemaker Studios (video documentary short)

2004 Ten Minute Cooking School: Puerco Pibil (video documentary short)

2004 Ten Minute Flick School: Fast, Cheap and in Control (video documentary short)

2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (chopped by)

2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

2003 Del Castillo (video)

2003 Film Is Dead: An Evening with Robert Rodriguez (video documentary short)

2002 Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams

2001 Spy Kids

1998 The Faculty

1996 From Dusk Till Dawn

1995 Four Rooms (segment "The Misbehavers")

1995 Desperado

1994 Roadracers (TV movie)

1992 El mariachi

1991 Bedhead (short)

Writer

2011 Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World (screenplay)

2010 Machete (written by)

2009 Shorts (written by)

2007 Planet Terror (written by)

2007 Grindhouse (written by / fake trailer segment "Machete" / written by / segment "Planet Terror")

2005 Curandero (original screenplay)

2005 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (written by)

2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (written by)

2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (script)

2002 Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (written by)

2001 Spy Kids (written by)

1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (video) (story)

1995 Four Rooms (written by / segment "The Misbehavers")

1995 Desperado (written by)

1994 Roadracers (TV movie) (written by)

1994 Rebel Highway (TV series)– Roadracers (1994) (writer)

1992 El mariachi (written by)

1991 Bedhead (short) (screenplay / story)

Composer

2011 Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World

2009 Shorts

2007 Planet Terror

2007 Grindhouse (segment "Planet Terror")

2005 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D

2005 Sin City

2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2

2004 The Anti-Hero's Journey (video documentary short)

2004 The Good, the Bad & the Bloody: Inside KNB EFX (video documentary short)

2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (scored by)

2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (score by)

2002 Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams

2001 Spy Kids

1991 Bedhead (short) (music composed by)

Cinematographer

2011 Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World

2009 Shorts

2007 Planet Terror

2007 Grindhouse (segments: "Machete"/"Planet Terror")

2005 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D

2005 Sin City

2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (shot by)

2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

2003 Del Castillo (video)

2002 Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (digital photography)

1992 El mariachi

1991 Bedhead (short)

Actor

2012 Amelia's 25th

2010 The United Monster Talent Agency (short)

2007 Planet Terror (uncredited)

2007 Grindhouse (segment "Planet Terror") (uncredited)

2006 Nice Guys

2005 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (voice) (uncredited)

2005 Sin City (uncredited)

2000 Bullfighter

2000 Deadline (TV series)

2000 Famous

1997 Nash Bridges (TV series)

1996 From Dusk Till Dawn (uncredited)

Visual Effects

2010 Machete (visual effects executive producer, visual effects supervisor)

2010 Predators (visual effects executive producer: Troublemaker Digital)

2009 Shorts (visual effects executive producer: Troublemaker Studios)

2007 Planet Terror (digital effects executive producer: Troublemaker Digital, visual effects supervisor)

2007 Grindhouse (visual effects executive producer - segment "Planet Terror", visual effects supervisor - segment "Planet Terror")

2005 The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (visual effects supervisor)

2005 Sin City (design and previsualization executive producer: Troublemaker Digital Studios, visual effects supervisor)

2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (executive producer: Troublemaker Digital Studios, visual effects supervisor)

2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (visual effects supervisor)

2002 Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (executive producer: Troublemaker Digital Studios, visual effects supervisor)

2001 Spy Kids (visual effects supervisor)

Special Effects

1998 The Faculty (mechanical department: XFX Inc.)

1992 El mariachi (special effects)

Appearances

2012 Spoilers with Kevin Smith (TV series)

2012 Side by Side (documentary)

2011 Piper's QUICK Picks (TV series)

2011 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV series)

2011 The Cleveland Show (TV series) (voice)

2011 The Black Mamba

2010 Decloaking the Invisible: Alien Terrain (video short)

2010 IMDb's 20th Anniversary Star of the Day (TV series documentary)

2010 Días de cine (TV series)

2010 The Soup (TV series)

2007-2010 Up Close with Carrie Keagan (TV series)

2010 Made in Hollywood (TV series)

2008 Starz Inside: Fantastic Flesh (TV documentary)

2008 Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero (documentary)

2007 Scream Awards 2007 (TV movie)

2007 The Charlie Rose Show (TV series)

2005-2007 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV series)

2007 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV series)

2007 My Shot With (TV series)

2007 The Shark Is Still Working (documentary)

2006 Scream Awards 2006 (TV special)

2006 Back to the Well: 'Clerks II' (video documentary)

2005 2005 Taurus World Stunt Awards (TV special)

2005 Sin City: The Premiere (TV documentary)

2005 Starz on the Set: Sin City (TV documentary short)

2005 Sunday Morning Shootout (TV series)

2005 Champion (documentary)

2005 George Lopez (TV series)

2004 The Making of 'Kill Bill: Volume 2' (TV documentary)

2004 How to Make Cool Home Movies (video short) (voice) (uncredited)

2004 Ten Minute Film School: Big Movies Made Cheap (video documentary short) (voice)

2004 The Good, the Bad & the Bloody: Inside KNB EFX (video documentary short)

2004 Inside Troublemaker Studios (video documentary short)

2004 Ten Minute Cooking School: Puerco Pibil (video documentary short)

2004 Ten Minute Flick School: Fast, Cheap and in Control (video documentary short)Narrator (uncredited)

2004 The Anti-Hero's Journey (video documentary short)

2003 HBO First Look (TV series documentary)

2003 Film Is Dead: An Evening with Robert Rodriguez (video documentary short)

2003 El Mariachi: 10 Years Later (video documentary)

2002 Breakfast (TV series)

2002 Total Access 24/7 (TV series)

2002 Hollywood, Inc. (TV series documentary)

2001 The Big Breakfast (TV series)

2000 Hollywood Goes to Hell (TV documentary short)

1998 Ten More Minutes: Anatomy of a Shootout (video documentary short)Narrator (uncredited)

1998 The Robert Rodriguez Ten Minute Film School (video documentary short) Narrator (uncredited)

1997 Full Tilt Boogie (documentary)

1996 Cinema 3 (TV series)

1996 Lo + plus (TV series)

1993 Moving Pictures (TV series documentary)

ALMA Awards

2006 Nominated ALMA Award Outstanding Director of a Motion Picture for: Sin City (2005)

2002 Won ALMA Award Outstanding Director in a Motion Picture for: Spy Kids (2001)

2002 Nominated ALMA Award Outstanding Screenplay (Original or Adapted) for: Spy Kids (2001).

1999 Nominated ALMA Award Outstanding Latino Director of a Feature Film for: The Faculty (1998)

ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards

2006 Won ASCAP Award Top Box Office Films for: Sin City (2005).
Shared with: John Debney

2004 Won ASCAP Award Top Box Office Films
for: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)

2003 Won ASCAP Award Top Box Office Films
for: Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002).
Shared with: John Debney

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films

1996 Nominated Saturn Award Best Director for: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival

1996 Won Silver Scream Award for: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Austin Film Critics Association

2006 Won Austin Film Award for: Sin City (2005)

Berlin International Film Festival

1999 Won Berlinale Camera

Cannes Film Festival

2005 Won Technical Grand Prize for: Sin City (2005). For the visual shaping.

2005 Nominated Palme d'Or for: Sin City (2005).
Shared with: Frank Miller

Czech Lions

2006 Nominated Czech Lion Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film) for: Sin City (2005). Shared with: Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino

Deauville Film Festival

1993 Won Audience Award for: El mariachi (1992)

1993 Nominated Critics Award for: El mariachi (1992)

Imagen Foundation Awards

2006 Nominated Imagen Award Best Director for: The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D (2005)

2006 Nominated Imagen Award Best Director
for: Sin City (2005)

2003 Won Imagen Award Best Director (Foreign or Domestic) - Film for: Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

2003 Won Norman Lear Writer's Award

Independent Spirit Awards

1994 Won Independent Spirit Award Best First Feature for: El mariachi (1992). Shared with:
Carlos Gallardo (producer)

1994 Nominated Independent Spirit Award Best Director for: El mariachi (1992)

National Board of Review

1993 Won Special Award

Online Film Critics Society Awards

2006 Won OFCS Award Best Cinematography for: Sin City (2005)

2006 Won OFCS Award Best Editing for: Sin City (2005)

Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards

2005 Won PFCS Award Best Film Editing for: Sin City (2005)

Premios ACE

1994 Won Premio ACE Cinema - Best First Work
for: El mariachi (1992)

Satellite Awards

2005 Nominated Satellite Award Outstanding Cinematography for: Sin City (2005)

2005 Nominated Satellite Award Outstanding Film Editing for: Sin City (2005)

2005 Nominated Satellite Award Outstanding Original Score for: Sin City (2005)

2005 Nominated Satellite Award Outstanding Sound (Mixing & Editing) for: Sin City (2005).

2005 Nominated Satellite Award Outstanding Visual Effects for: Sin City (2005)

2004 Won Golden Satellite Award Best Original Song
for: Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) for the song "Siente Mi Amor"

ShoWest Convention

2007 Won ShoWest Award Director of the Year Shared with: Quentin Tarantino

Sundance Film Festival

1993 Won Audience Award Dramatic for: El mariachi (1992).

1993 Nominated Grand Jury Prize Dramatic for: El mariachi (1992)

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I always ask for less money than we need so that you have to be more creative.

Video technology puts film-making back in the hands of the people. That's how I learned how to make movies - making movies at home.

I always consider Salma [Hayek] for my projects, even for male roles.

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American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician Robert Rodriguez was the middle child of a family of 10 children whose parents Rebecca (née Villegas) was a nurse and father, Cecilio G. Rodríguez was a salesman.

An artist by nature, he was very rarely seen sans pencil-in-hand doodling some abstract (yet astounding) dramatic feature on a piece of paper. His mother, not a fan of the "dreary" cinema of the 1970s, instilled a sense of cinema in her children by taking them on weekly trips to San Antonio's famed Olmos Theatre movie house and treated them to a healthy dose of Hollywood's "Golden Age", from Sergio Leone to the silent classic of Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

He showed an interest in cartooning and film-making at a very young age.

He used the family's old Super-8 film camera to make his first films and when his father brought home a new a video camera he moved up to a whole new level.

Rather than handing in term papers at school, he is allowed to hand in "term movies" because, as he himself explains, "[the teachers] knew I'd put more effort into a movie than I ever would into an essay."

He started his own comic strip, "Los Hooligans" while in college.

His movies won every local film competition and festival. When low academic grades threatened to keep him out of University of Texas, Austin's renowned film department, he proved his worth the only way he knew how: he maked a movie. Three, in fact: trilogy of short movies called "Austin Stories" starring his siblings. It beat the entries of the school's top students and allowed Robert to enter the program. After being accepted into the film department, Robert took $400 of his own money to make his "biggest" film yet: a 16mm short comedy/fantasy called Bedhead (1991). It went on to win multiple awards.

He sold his body to science to test new medications in order to help finance his first feature-length picture “El Mariachi” (1992) before ultimately recalibrating the notion of independence as a one-man writer, director, producer, editor, composer, and special effects man.

He is a huge fan of John Carpenter.

Set up a symphony orchestra in his garage to record the score for “Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams” (2002).

His production company was called "Los Hooligans", named after the comic strip he drew in college, but it is now titled "Troublemaker Studios".

He is an accomplished chef.

Has resigned from the DGA twice. The first time was so he could directed the non-guild “Four Rooms” (1995) with Quentin Tarantino and two other directors. The second time was in 2004 when he wanted to give Frank Miller a co-director credit for “Sin City” (2005). Other notable DGA "defectors" include his close friends George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino.

Turned down the offer to direct Kevin Smith's "Superman Lives” and “Dogma” (1999) .

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