Robert Anthony Rodríguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in Mexico and his home state, Texas.
Rodriguez directed the 1992 action film El Mariachi, which was a commercial success after grossing $2 million against a budget of $7,000. The film spawned two sequels known collectively as the Mexico Trilogy: Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. He directed From Dusk till Dawn in 1996 and developed its television adaptation series (2014–present). Rodriguez 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. Rodriguez also directed the Spy Kids films, The Faculty, as well as The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, Planet Terror, and Machete.
He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who founded the production company A Band Apart, which Rodriguez was a member of. In December 2013, Rodriguez launched his own cable television channel, El Rey.
Robert Rodríguez (born July 1, 1990 in Greeley, Colorado) is an Mexican American professional boxer in the Featherweight division.
On September 19, 2009 Rodríguez beat the veteran Jose Pacheco at the Nomads Adventure Quest in South Windsor, Connecticut.
Robert J. Rodriguez (born December 25, 1981) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the linebackers coach for the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) football team, a position he has held since 2010. Rodriguez is a graduate of UTEP, where he played linebacker during the early 2000s.
Rodriguez attended Montwood High School in El Paso, Texas and lettered in both football and basketball. He was a standout running back for Montwood and was the El Paso Times Offensive Player of the Year as well as All City first team for the 1999 season. He signed a football scholarship with UTEP, choosing to continue his playing career in his hometown.
Rodriguez ranks fifth on the all-time UTEP tackle chart with 443 tackles, including 33 for losses. He led the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) in tackles in three of his four seasons at UTEP (2001, 2003, 2004). Rodriguez was named the WAC Defensive Player of the Year in 2004 after being credited with 121 tackles, including 16 tackles for losses. He was the defensive captain of the 2004 UTEP team that was ranked in the AP Top 25 for multiple weeks during the 2004 season and that played the University of Colorado in the EV1.net Houston Bowl.