Rodríguez or Rodriguez is a Hispanic surname meaning "son of Rodrigo". It may refer to:

People

• Rodríguez (surname), people with the surname Rodríguez or Rodriguez

Place names

• Rodrigues Island, a dependency of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean
• Rodriguez, California, alternate name of Muroc, California, United States
• Rodriguez, Rizal, municipality in the Philippines

Other uses

• Rodriguez (band), San Luis Obispo based rock band active in the mid-late 1990s

See also[link]

• Rodríguez Saá, Argentinean family
• Rodrigues (disambiguation)

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Sixto Diaz Rodriguez (also known as Rodriguez or as Jesus Rodriguez) is an American folk musician, born in Detroit, Michigan on (1942-07-10)July 10, 1942. He was named 'Sixto' (pronounced seex-tuh) because he was the sixth child in his family. Rodriguez's parents were middle-class immigrants from Mexico, who left in the 1920s. In most of his songs he takes a political stance on the cruelties facing the inner city poor.

Career[link]

In 1967 (under the name Rod Riguez) he released the single "I'll Slip Away" through the small label Impact. He did not produce anything for another three years until he was signed to Sussex Records; an offshoot of the Buddah label. It was after the move to Sussex that he changed his professional name to just Rodriguez. Rodriguez recorded two albums with Sussex—Cold Fact in 1970, and Coming from Reality in 1971. But after mixed reviews and low album sales he was dropped from the label, which later folded in 1975.

Post career fame[link]

After failing to make an impact in America, he gave up his career as a musician. However, although he was relatively unknown in his home country by the mid 70s, his albums were starting to gain airplay in countries like South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), New Zealand and Australia.

After imported copies of his Sussex albums ran dry, an Australian record label, Blue Goose Music, bought the Australian rights to his back catalogue in the mid 70s. The label released his two studio albums plus a compilation album At His Best (featuring unreleased recordings from 1976 "Can't Get Away", "I'll Slip Away" (a re-recording of his first single), and "Street Boy"). Unbeknownst to Rodriguez, it went platinum in South Africa, where he achieved cult status.

With a new buzz around Rodriguez, in 1979 he toured Australia with the Mark Gillespie Band as support. Two shows from the tour were later released on the Australian only album Alive—the title being a play on the rumours caused by his public obscurity that Rodriguez had died years ago. After the '79 tour he returned to Australia for a final tour in 1981 with Midnight Oil before quietly slipping back into normal life.

Recent success[link]

In 1991 both his albums were released on CD in South Africa for the first time. His fame in South Africa was completely unknown to him, until 1998 when his eldest daughter found a website dedicated to him on the internet.^[1] In 1998 he played his first South African Tour. A documentary about the tour Dead Men Don't Tour: Rodriguez in South Africa 1998 was later screened on SABC TV in 2001. Later he played in Sweden before returning to South Africa in 2001 and 2005.

In 2002 his signature song, "Sugar Man", was added to DJ David Holmes' mix album Come Get It I Got It, gaining Rodriguez airplay again on Australian radio station Triple J. "Sugar Man" had previously been sampled in the song "You're Da Man" from rapper Nas' 2001 album Stillmatic.^[2] In 2007 he returned to Australia in April, to play the East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival,^[3] as well as shows in Melbourne and Sydney. His song "Sugar Man" was in the 2006 film Candy, starring Heath Ledger. Cornish singer-songwriter, Ruarri Joseph, covered Rodriguez's song 'Rich Folks Hoax' for his third studio album. Rodriguez now continues to tour in various countries. South African band Just Jinger has also made a very popular cover version of Sugar man. His albums Cold Fact and Coming from Reality were re-released by Light in the Attic Records in 2009.^[4]

The 2012 Sundance Film Festival hosted the premiere of Searching for Sugar Man, from Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul, detailing the efforts by two fans to see if his rumored death was true - and if not, to discover what had become of him. The Simon Chinn and John Battsek produced documentary went on to win the World Cinema Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award, World Cinema Documentary.^[5] The film opens in NY and LA on July 27, 2012. ^[6]

The Searching for Sugar Man soundtrack will feature a compilation of Rodriguez tracks from his Cold Fact and Coming from Reality albums. The album is set to be released July 24th. ^[7]

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

USA

• "I'll Slip Away" b/w "You'd Like to Admit It" (1967 as Rod Riguez)
• "Inner City Blues" b/w "Forget It" (1970)
• "To Whom It May Concern" b/w "I Think of You" (1970)

Australia

• "Sugar Man" b/w "Inner City Blues" (1977)
• "Climb Up on My Music" b/w "To Whom It May Concern" (1978)
• "Sugar Man" b/w "Tom Cat" (by Muddy Waters) (2002)

Studio albums[link]

• Cold Fact (1970)
• Coming from Reality (1971)

Live albums[link]

• Rodriguez Alive (Australia – 1981)
• Live Fact (South Africa – 1998)

Compilations[link]

• After the Fact (reissue of Coming From Reality; South Africa – 1976)
• At His Best (Australia – 1977)
• The Best of Rodriguez (South Africa – 1982)
• Sugarman: The Best of Rodriguez (South Africa – 2005)

Soundtracks[link]

• Searching For Sugar Man (2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official fan website
• September 2008 Interview with L.A. Record
• Article on Rodriguez from Guardian UK August 8 2008
• SMH article April 12 2007
• Official Reissue 2008
• Cold Fact Daily Music Guide Review
• Rodriguez Interview on RocknRollDating
• Craig Bartholomew interviews Rodriguez - Mail & Guardian 1998

Raini Alena Rodriguez (born July 1, 1993)^[2] is an American actress, best known for playing Maya Blart in Paul Blart: Mall Cop. She also appeared in an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, as Betsy, on the new Disney XD show I'm in the Band as Annoying Arlene, and is now a lead role in Austin & Ally. She appeared in the 2011 film Prom.

Rodriguez was born in Bryan, Texas, the daughter of Diane and Roy Rodriguez, who owns a business.^[3] She is the older sister of actor Rico Rodriguez.

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Raini Rodriguez at the Internet Movie Database

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Robert Rodriguez
Rodriguez at the 2007 Scream Awards, October 19, 2007
Born	Robert Anthony Rodriguez (1968-06-20) June 20, 1968 (age 44) San Antonio, Texas, United States
Occupation	film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, cinematographer and musician
Notable work(s)	El Mariachi, Desperado, Spy Kids, Sin City, Grindhouse, Machete
Influenced by	John Carpenter, James Cameron, Roger Corman, Russ Meyer, Wes Craven, Sergio Leone, John McTiernan, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Frank Miller
Spouse	Elizabeth Avellán (1990–2006)
Partner	Rose McGowan (2007–09)
Website
Troublemaker Studios

Robert Anthony Rodríguez (born June 20, 1968)^[1] is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet Terror, and Machete. He is a friend and frequent collaborator of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

Early life[link]

Rodríguez was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican-American parents Rebecca (née Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman.^[2][3] He began his interest in film at age 11 when his father bought one of the first VCRs, which came with a camera.

While attending St. Anthony High School, he was commissioned to videotape the school's football games. According to his sister he was fired soon after for shooting them with a cinematic style, getting shots of parents' reactions and the ball traveling through the air instead of shooting the whole play. There he met Carlos Gallardo; they both shot films on video throughout high school and college. After graduating Rodriguez went to the College of Communication at the University of Texas where he also developed a love of cartooning. His grades were not high enough to get into the school's film program, so he invented a daily comic strip entitled Los Hooligans with many of the characters based on his siblings – in particular, one of his sisters, Maricarmen. The comic proved to be quite successful, running for three years in the student newspaper The Daily Texan while Rodríguez continued to make short films.^{[citation needed]}

Rodríguez grew up shooting action and horror short films on video, and editing on two VCRs. Finally, in the fall of 1990, his entry in a local film contest earned him a spot in the university's film program where he made the award-winning 16 mm short "Bedhead". The film chronicles the amusing misadventures of a young girl whose older brother sports an incredibly tangled mess of hair that she cannot tolerate. Even at this early stage, Rodríguez's trademark style began to emerge: quick cuts, intense zooms, and fast camera movements deployed with a sense of humor that offsets the action.^{[citation needed]}

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Rodriguez at the premiere of Grindhouse, Austin, Texas

This short film attracted enough attention to encourage him to seriously attempt a career as a filmmaker. He went on to shoot the action flick El Mariachi in Spanish. El Mariachi, which was shot for around $7,000 with money raised by his friend Carlos Gallardo and participating in medical research studies, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1993. The film, originally intended for the Spanish-language low-budget home-video market, was "cleaned up" with several hundred thousand dollars before being distributed by Columbia Pictures in the United States, still being promoted as "the movie made for $7,000". Rodríguez described his experiences making the film in his book Rebel Without a Crew. The book and film inspired legions of hopeful filmmakers to pick up cameras and make no-budget movies. The film and the book are widely considered important touchstones of the independent film movement of the 1990s.^{[citation needed]}

Mainstream success[link]

His next feature film was Desperado, a sequel to El Mariachi starring Antonio Banderas. The film introduced Salma Hayek to American audiences. Rodríguez went on to collaborate with Quentin Tarantino on the vampire thriller, From Dusk Till Dawn (he co-produced two sequels), and with Kevin Williamson on the horror film The Faculty.^{[citation needed]}

In 2001, Rodríguez enjoyed his first $100,000,000 (USD) Hollywood hit with Spy Kids, which went on to become a movie franchise, with the third film released in a crude form of 3D. A third "mariachi" film also appeared in late 2003, Once Upon a Time in Mexico which completed the Mariachi Trilogy. He operates a production company called Troublemaker Studios, formerly Los Hooligans Productions.^{[citation needed]}

Rodríguez co-directed Sin City (2005), an adaptation of the Frank Miller Sin City comic books; Quentin Tarantino guest-directed a scene. During production in 2004, Rodríguez insisted that Miller direct the film with him because he considered the visual style of Miller's comic art to be just as important as his own in the film. However, the Directors Guild of America would not allow it, citing that only "legitimate teams" could share the director's credit (e.g. the Wachowski Brothers). Rodríguez chose to resign from the DGA, stating, "It was easier for me to quietly resign before shooting because otherwise I'd be forced to make compromises I was unwilling to make or set a precedent that might hurt the guild later on." By resigning from the DGA, Rodríguez was forced to relinquish his director's seat on the film John Carter of Mars (in development) for Paramount Pictures. Rodríguez had already signed on and had been announced as director of that film, planning to begin filming soon after completing Sin City.^{[citation needed]}

Sin City was a critical hit in 2005 as well as a box office success, particularly for a hyperviolent comic book adaptation that did not have name recognition comparable to the X-Men or Spider-Man. He has stated that he is interested in eventually adapting all of Miller's Sin City comic books.^{[citation needed]}

Rodríguez released The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 2005, a superhero-kid movie intended for the same younger audiences as his Spy Kids series. Shark Boy & Lava Girl was based on a story conceived by Rodríguez's 7 year-old son, Racer, who was given credit for the screenplay. The film was not a major success, having grossed 39 million dollars at the box office.^{[citation needed]}

Rodriguez wrote and directed the film Planet Terror for the collaboration with Quentin Tarantino in their double feature Grindhouse (released in 2007). This film was a throwback to the Grindhouse exploitation cinema of the past.^{[citation needed]}

He also has a series of "Ten Minute Film School" segments on several of his DVD releases, showing aspiring filmmakers how to make good, profitable movies using inexpensive tactics. Starting with the Once Upon a Time in Mexico DVD, Rodríguez began creating a series called, "Ten Minute Cooking School" where he revealed his recipe for "Puerco Pibil" (based on Cochinita pibil, an old dish from Yucatán), the same food Johnny Depp's character, "Agent Sands" ate in the film. The popularity of this series led to the inclusion of another "Cooking School" on the two-disc version of the "Sin City" DVD where Rodríguez teaches the viewer how to make "Sin City Breakfast Tacos," a dish (made for his cast and crew during late-night shoots and editing sessions) utilizing his grandmother's tortilla recipe and different egg mixes for the filling. He had initially planned to release a third "Cooking School" with the October 16 DVD release of "Planet Terror" but then announced on the "Film School" segment of the DVD that he would put it on the upcoming Grindhouse Theatrical DVD set instead. The Cooking School, titled "Texas Barbecue...from the GRAVE!," is a dish based on the "secret barbecue recipe" of "JT Hague," Jeff Fahey's character in the film.^[4]

Rodríguez is a strong supporter of digital film making, having been introduced to the practice by director George Lucas, who personally invited Rodríguez to use the digital cameras at Lucas' headquarters.^[5]

[edit] Predators

On April 23, 2009, it was announced that Rodriguez would produce a new Predator sequel, entitled Predators. This film's script was based on early drafts he had written after seeing the original. Rodriguez's ideas included a planet-sized game preserve and various creatures used by the Predators to hunt a group of abducted yet skilled humans. Opening to mixed reviews, the film fared reasonably well at the box office – forming speculation that a sequel may be in the works.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Machete

Machete is a feature film directed by Rodriguez and released in September 2010. It is an expansion of a fake trailer Rodriguez directed for the 2007 film Grindhouse. It starred Danny Trejo as the title character. Trejo, Rodriquez' 2nd cousin, has worked with him in some of his other movies such as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and Spy Kids, where Trejo's character was also known as Machete. Although originally announced to be released direct-to-DVD as an extra on the Planet Terror DVD, the film was produced as a theatrical release.^[6]

According to Rodriguez, the origins of the film go back to Desperado. He says, "When I met Danny, I said, 'This guy should be like the Mexican Jean-Claude Van Damme or Charles Bronson, putting out a movie every year and his name should be Machete.' So I decided to do that way back when, never got around to it until finally now. So now, of course, I want to keep going and do a feature."^[7] In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Rodriguez said that he wrote the screenplay back in 1993 when he cast Trejo in Desperado. "So I wrote him this idea of a federale from Mexico who gets hired to do hatchet jobs in the U.S. I had heard sometimes FBI or DEA have a really tough job that they don't want to get their own agents killed on, they'll hire an agent from Mexico to come do the job for $25,000. I thought, "That's Machete. He would come and do a really dangerous job for a lot of money to him but for everyone else over here it's peanuts." But I never got around to making it."^[8]

Rodriguez hoped to film Machete at the same time as Sin City 2.^[9] Additionally, during Comic-Con International 2008, he took the time to speak about Machete, including such topics as: status, possible sequels after the release of Machete, and production priorities.^[10] It was also revealed that he has regularly pulled sequences from it for his other productions including Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Machete was released in theaters September 3, 2010 in the U.S.A.

On May 5, 2010, Robert Rodriguez responded to Arizona's controversial immigration law by releasing an "illegal" trailer on Ain't It Cool News.^[11] The fake trailer combined elements of the Machete trailer that appeared in Grindhouse with footage from the actual film,^[12] and implied that the film would be about Machete leading a revolt against anti-immigration politicians and border vigilantes.^[12] Several movie websites, including Internet Movie Database, reported that it was the official teaser for the film.^[12] However, Rodriguez later revealed the trailer to be a joke, explaining "it was Cinco de Mayo and I had too much tequila."^[12]

Unproduced projects and upcoming films[link]

Since 1998, he has owned the film rights to Mike Allred's off-beat comic Madman. The two have hinted at the project being close to beginning on several occasions without anything coming of it. However, other projects have been completed first (Allred was instrumental in connecting Rodríguez with Frank Miller, leading to the production of Sin City). In 2004, Allred, while promoting his comic book, The Golden Plates, announced that a screenplay by George Huang was near completion. In March 2006, it was announced that production on Sin City 2 would be postponed. Allred announced at the 2006 WonderCon that production would likely commence on Madman the Movie in 2006. Huang is actually friends with Rodriguez, who advised him to pursue filmmaking as a career when Rodriguez landed a deal with Columbia Pictures where Huang was an employee.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2007 it was announced that Rodríguez had signed on to direct a remake of Barbarella for a 2008 release.^[13] At the 2007 Comic-Con convention, actress Rosario Dawson announced that because of Barbarella, production of Sin City 2 would be put on hold. She also announced that she would be playing an amazon in the Barbarella film.^[14]

In May 2008 Rodriguez is said to be shopping around a prison drama television series called Woman in Chains!, with Rose McGowan being a possibility for a lead role.^[15]

As of June 2008, plans to remake the film Barbarella with Rose McGowan as the lead have been delayed; the actress and director are instead remaking the film Red Sonja.^[16]

As of May 2009, Rodriguez plans to produce a live-action remake of Fire and Ice, a 1983 film collaboration between painter Frank Frazetta and animator Ralph Bakshi. The deal was closed shortly after Frazetta's death.^[12]

In 2011, Rodriguez announced at Comic-Con that he had purchased the film rights to Heavy Metal and planned to develop a new animated film at the new Quick Draw Studios.^[17]

Personal life[link]

Rodriguez announced in April 2006 that he and his wife Elizabeth Avellán, with whom he had five children, separated after 16 years of marriage.^[18]

He reportedly had a "dalliance"^[19] with actress Rose McGowan during the shooting of Grindhouse.^[20] In October 2007, Elle Magazine revealed that Rodríguez cast McGowan as the title role in his remake of Barbarella.^[21] After some reports of them breaking up^[22] and being together again,^[23] they split up in October 2009.^[24]

In October 2010, he walked Alexa Vega down the aisle at her wedding to producer Sean Covel.^{[citation needed]}

The "one-man film crew" and "Mariachi-style"[link]

Rodríguez not only has the unusual credits of producing, directing and writing his films, he also frequently serves as editor, director of photography, camera operator, steadicam operator, composer, production designer, visual effects supervisor, and sound editor on his films. This has earned him the nickname of "the one-man film crew." He abbreviates his numerous roles in his film credits; Once Upon A Time In Mexico, for instance, is "shot, chopped, and scored by Robert Rodriguez", and Sin City is "shot and cut by Robert Rodriguez."

He calls his style of making movies "Mariachi-style" (in reference to his first feature film El Mariachi) in which (according to the back cover of his book Rebel Without a Crew) "Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems." Stu Maschwitz coined the term "Robert Rodriguez list", i.e. you make a list of things you have access to like cool cars, apartments, horses, samurai swords and so on, and then write the screenplay based on that list.^[25]

Filmography[link]

Collaborations[link]

Like most directors, Rodriguez has cast certain actors in more than one of his films.

The only actors that are not listed are ones who appear only in the Spy Kids franchise, and no other Rodriguez film. These actors include Alan Cumming, Mike Judge, Matt O'Leary, Emily Osment, Tony Shalhoub and Alexa Vega.

	El Mariachi	Roadracers	Desperado	Four Rooms	From Dusk till Dawn	The Faculty	Spy Kids	Spy Kids 2	Once Upon a Time in Mexico	Spy Kids 3	Sharkboy and Lavagirl	Sin City	Planet Terror	Shorts	Machete	Spy Kids 4	Sin City: A Dame to Kill For	Machete Kills
Jessica Alba												N			N	N	N
David Arquette		N									N
Electra and Elise Avellan													N		N
Antonio Banderas			N	N			N	N	N	N						N
Steve Buscemi			N					N		N
George Clooney					N		N			N
Rosario Dawson												N					N
Johnny Depp									N								N
Jeff Fahey													N		N
Carlos Gallardo1	N		N										N
Carla Gugino							N	N		N		N
Josh Hartnett						N						N
John Hawkes		N			N
Salma Hayek		N	N	N	N	N			N	N
Nicky Katt												N	N
Angela Lanza			N				N	N
Tito Larriva			N		N				N						N
Michael Madsen												N					N
Cheech Marin			N		N		N	N	N	N					N
Rose McGowan													N		N
Clive Owen												N					N
Robert Patrick						N	N
Michael Parks					N								N
Rebel Rodriguez											N		N	N
Mickey Rourke									N			N					N
Daryl Sabara							N	N		N					N	N
Tom Savini					N								N		N
Quentin Tarantino2			N	N	N								N
Danny Trejo			N		N		N	N	N	N					N	N		N
Patricia Vonne			N	N			N					N
Bruce Willis				N								N	N
Elijah Wood						N				N		N
	El Mariachi	Roadracers	Desperado	Four Rooms	From Dusk till Dawn	The Faculty	Spy Kids	Spy Kids 2	Once Upon a Time in Mexico	Spy Kids 3	Sharkboy and Lavagirl	Sin City	Planet Terror	Shorts	Machete	Spy Kids 4	Sin City: A Dame to Kill For	Machete Kills

¹ Gallardo also produced the Mariachi sequels.
² Tarantino has collaborated with Rodriguez in more ways than just as an actor.

See also[link]

	Book: Mexico Trilogy
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References[link]

External links[link]

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Paul Rodriguez
Rodriguez at a USO show aboard the USS Nimitz, June 19, 2003
Born	(1955-01-19) January 19, 1955 (age 57) Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
Occupation	Actor/Comedian
Years active	1983–present

Paul Rodriguez (born January 19, 1955) is a Mexican-American stand-up comedian and actor.

Personal life[link]

Rodriguez was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, México to Mexican agriculture ranchers..^[1] His family migrated to East Los Angeles, where he enlisted in the military; he was stationed in Iceland and Duluth, Minnesota. His son, Paul Rodriguez Jr., is a professional skateboarder nicknamed P-Rod.

Career[link]

Rodriguez considered becoming a lawyer, but instead went into comedy. His first shot at national fame, the ABC sitcom a.k.a. Pablo, was canceled after seven episodes.

In 1988, Rodriguez replaced Bob Eubanks as host of The Newlywed Game. The show lasted one season before being canceled, During his Tenure as host of the Newlywed Game, The show began using the 1958 hit record Book of Love by The Monotones as the theme song.

Rodriguez has starred in several feature films including, D.C. Cab, Born in East L.A., Tortilla Soup, Rat Race, and Ali. He directed and starred in the film A Million to Juan. Rodriguez has also performed voice-over roles on King of the Hill, Dora the Explorer and Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

Many of his comedy specials involve serious issues for the Latino community, and Rodriguez is known for his charity work. He has performed on several Comic Relief charity specials. In 1995, he performed a comedy television special live at San Quentin State Prison. He produced and was featured on the 2002 comedy special titled The Original Latin Kings of Comedy. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked him 74th on its list of the 100 Greatest Standups of all Time.^[2]

Rodriguez is a part-owner of the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood, California, the site of comedian/actor Michael Richards' highly-publicized on-stage rant against two African American men who were heckling him.^[3] Of Richards' repeated use of the word nigger, Rodriguez said, "Once the word comes out of your mouth and you don't happen to be African American, then you have a whole lot of explaining".^[4]

Rodriguez also has an interest in farming with operations in California's Central Valley. He is the chairman of the California Latino Water Coalition, a group trying to draw attention to California's dire water situation. He also had a night show called El Show de Paul Rodriguez on Univision in the early 1990s.

Rodriguez currently stars in the comedy-reality series 'Mis Videos Locos' on MTV Tr3s.

Discography[link]

• 1986: "You're in America now, speak Spanish"
• 1997: "Cheese n macaroni"

Filmography[link]