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Robert Rodriguez: Biography

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  • Birth Name: Robert Anthony Rodriguez
  • Birth Place: San Antonio, TX
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 06/20/1968, Gemini
  • Profession: Director; screenwriter; producer
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Robert Rodriguez Fast Facts:
  • As a teenager, he wrote and drew a comic strip based on his siblings called Los Hooligans, which ran for three years in the University of Texas' newspaper.
  • Partially funded his first full-length film — the Spanish-language crime movie El Mariachi —with $4,000 he earned as a hospital test subject for a cholesterol drug.
  • Mariachi sequel Desperado was nominated for the 1995 Cannes International Film Festival's Golden Palm Award for Best Film.
  • Won Outstanding Director - Motion Picture at the 2001 ALMA Awards for the action movie Spy Kids, which grossed more than $100 million in the U.S.
  • Rumored to be romantically involved with Rose McGowan, who starred in Planet Terror, his segment of 2007's Grindhouse.
  • Robert Rodriguez Relationships:
  • Angela Lanza - Sister
  • Cecilio G. Rodriguez - Father
  • Christina Rodriguez - Sister
  • Danny Trejo - Cousin
  • David Rodriguez - Brother
  • Elizabeth Avellan - Ex-wife
  • Elizabeth Rodriguez - Sister
  • Maricarmen Rodriguez - Sister
  • Racer Maximilliano Rodriguez - Son
  • Rebecca Rodriguez - Sister
  • Rebecca Rodriguez - Mother
  • Rebel Antonio Rodriguez - Son
  • Rhiannon Elizabeth Rodriguez-Avellán - Daughter
  • Rocket Valentino Rodriguez - Son
  • Rogue Rodriguez - Son
  • Rose McGowan - Fiancée
  • College:
  • University of Texas, Austin, TX (BA in Film and Communications, 1991)
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