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Also known as Robert Anthony Rodríguez, Robert Anthony Rodriguez

American filmmaker (born 1968)

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Robert Rodriguez is a United States-based male artist whose professional career began in 1991. He is associated with genres including folk rock, psychedelic folk, and psychedelic rock. His musical output has been categorized with tags such as Soundtrack, instrumental, composer, and movie score composers.

According to Open Library records, he is the author of 40 works. Notable titles include *Identity Theft : Are You the Next Victim?*, *Beatles : the Long and Fabulous Road : Beatles Biography*, *Way I See It*, *Autentico*, and *Be Auténtico*. Crossref data lists five works under his name.

Rodriguez stands 187 units tall. He maintains an official website and has 332,925 social media followers. On Last.fm, his music has accumulated 1,149,883 plays from 79,328 listeners.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Robert
Family name
Rodríguez
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
San Antonio
Occupation
writer
Languages spoken
English language
Image
Rodriguez, Robert (2007).jpg
Height
187
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different from
Roberto Rodríguez
Commons category
Robert Rodriguez
date of birth
1968-06-20
unmarried partner
Rose McGowan
Commons gallery
Robert Rodriguez
birth name
Robert Anthony Rodríguez
start of work period
1991-00-00
social media followers
331461
name in native language
Robert Rodriguez
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Encyclopedic overview

Robert Anthony Rodriguez (/rɒˈdriːɡɛz/ ro-DREE-ghez; born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker, composer, actor, chef and visual effects supervisor. He shoots, edits, produces, and scores many of his films in Mexico and in his home state of Texas. Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2.6 million ($5.5 million in 2023 dollars) against a budget of $7,000 ($14,937 in 2023 dollars). The film spawned two sequels known collectively as the Mexico Trilogy: Desperado (1995) and Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003).

Rodriguez directed From Dusk till Dawn in 1996 and developed its television series adaptation (2014–2016). He co-directed the 2005 neo-noir crime thriller anthology Sin City (adapted from the graphic novel of the same name) and the 2014 sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. He is also the creator of the Spy Kids franchise, as well as The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005), Planet Terror (2007), Machete (2010), We Can Be Heroes (2020), and also directed The Faculty (1998) and Alita: Battle Angel (2019).

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