- Name: Salma Hayek
- Date of Birth: September 02, 1966
- Place of Birth: Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico
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Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican actress. Also an Emmy winning director, a film and television producer. The most successful Latin American actress in...( read more)
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"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This
empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared
to look, including inside ourselves."
~ Salma Hayek ~
empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared
to look, including inside ourselves."
~ Salma Hayek ~
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Actress, director, producer, mother and avid charity worker, Salma Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico to a Lebanese father and a Mexican mother. Raised in a wealthy, devoutly Catholic family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau Louisiana, at the age of 12. She was also an accomplished gymnast, with aspirations of becoming an Olympic competitor.
After leaving the school due to alleged behavioral problems with the religious sisters who ran the school, Hayek returned to Mexico for a period, but then she was sent to Houston, Texas, to live with her aunt, where she stayed until she was 17. She subsequently moved to Mexico City for college, where she studied International Relations. To the chagrin of her family, she decided to drop out in order to pursue a career as an actress.
SH: ''One day I took my dad to lunch. I asked him if he believed in destiny and he said, 'Yes.' And I said, 'Well, I believe it's my destiny to become an actress.'"
She first found work in plays at neighborhood theaters, including one assignment as the heroine of Aladdin and His Marvelous Lamp. Several months of tireless stage work led to jobs making television commercials, which in turn yielded a casting in Nuevo Amanecer, a popular daytime TV serial. With no more experience than that to her name, Salma got herself cast as the title character of a second serial, Teresa, the phenomenal popularity of which almost immediately made its fetching young star the most fanatically revered actress in Mexico.
Not content to settle for the comparatively meager rewards of superstardom, Mexican-style, Salma set her confident sights on Hollywood, and moved north in 1991. What followed thereafter was a taxing period of adjustment, beginning with an 18-month hiatus from acting that was primarily occupied with English lessons. Salma's first big break came in 1993, when she spent four months auditioning for a headlining role in Allison Anders's girlz-'n'-the-hood drama Mi Vida Loca. Anders eventually cast another actress in the desired-for lead assignment, but Salma's tenacity impressed the director so much that she gave her a smaller part in the film for the express purpose of enabling the promising young actress to qualify for membership in the Screen Actors Guild.
Other small roles followed, mostly on television, but it was an appearance on a Spanish-language cable-access talk show that led to Salma's big breakthrough. While in the process of planning a sequel to his wildly successful debut film, El Mariachi, Mexican-American director Robert Rodriguez happened to tune in to Salma's talk show appearance during a fit of late-night channel surfing. Mesmerized by the lovely and engaging actress, Rodriguez wasted no time tracking her down, and soon secured her interest in tackling the female lead in his soon-to-be-produced big-studio debut, Desperado. Rodriguez's financial backers initially resisted his choice of Salma, but the director won them over by showcasing her in his made-for-cable installment of Showtime's Rebel Highway series, Roadracers. A solid commercial success, Desperado also garnered Salma rave reviews for her show-stopping performance. Despite the fact she was disappointingly underrepresented in her next two outings, in the limp thrillers Fair Game and Fled, Salma's performances nevertheless provided much-needed zip for both projects, and 1997 found her nicely romantically matched in both Fools Rush In and TNT's adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which she portrayed Esmerelda to Mandy Patinkin's Quasimodo.
Salma's film agenda continues to offer a steady diet of roles: She followed her turn in the disco redux 54 with an appearance alongside Will Smith and Kevin Kline in Wild Wild West, and co-starred with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Rock, Linda Fiorentino, and Alan Rickman in Kevin Smith's Dogma. Through her Ventanarosa production company, she co-produced The Velocity of Gary, an offbeat romantic comedy which teamed her with Ethan Hawke and Vincent D'Onofrio, and another of her co-productions, the Mexican feature No One Writes to the Colonel, was in competition at Cannes. Next, Salma trumped both Madonna and Jennifer Lopez to gain the title role in Frida, the long-awaited biopic of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The story offered any actress a career-making performance and earned Salma an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
Since then Salma has appeared in films such as 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico' (2003) a follow up to Desperado, 'Bandidas' (2006) and 'Ask the Dust' (2006). She is now the executive producer of the ABC sitcom 'Ugly Betty'. Summing up her ambitions for the future, Salma told Valdez-Rodriguez that although she was already a producer, she wanted to be "a much better producer. Then I want to direct again. Then I want to write... I want to have the absolute vision of what's in my head go through me, through the entire process, until I can touch it and smell it and see it."
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| Full name: | Salma Valgarma Hayek-Jiménez Salma is an Arabic name which means 'peace' or 'calm' | ||
| Height: | 5'2" (158 cm) | ||
| Eyes: | Brown | ||
| Hair: | Dark Brown | ||
| Star Sign: | Western - Virgo Chinese - Horse | ||
| Nationality: | Mexican | ||
| Heritage: | Mexican, Spanish, Lebanese | ||
| Education: | Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau, LA, USA Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico studied International Relations but dropped out to pursue acting Stella Adler Conservatory, Los Angeles, CA, USA | ||
| Family: | Father: Sami Hayek Dominguez (oil company executive) Mother: Diana (Jiménez) Hayek (opera singer) Brother: Sami Hayek (younger) Husband: François-Henri Pinault Daughter: Valentina Paloma Pinault Dogs: 7 | ||
| Resides in: | Los Angeles, CA, USA | ||
| Religious affiliation: | Catholic | ||
| Interests/Hobbies | Art, charity work, dogs | ||
| Languages: | English, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic | ||
| Charities/Causes: | Charities in which Salma is involved:
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| Other: | Salma got hooked on smoking after she started on the set of the movie Frida, to have a better understanding of her character. She quit smoking when she discovered she was pregnant. |
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Salma has her own production company 'Ventanarosa', translated from Spanish it literally means 'pink window'.
Salma has suffered from dyslexia since she was a little girl.
Salma is best friends with Spanish actress Penélope Cruz.
Salma is one of only two Latin actresses to have been nominated for an Academy Award.
Some of Salma's favorite films include It Happened One Night, The Graduate, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.
Salma announced in November 2008 that she was "addicted" to breastfeeding her daughter Valentina. She claims that she can see the benefits of it over bottle feeding despite her daughter being 13 months old at the time. During a trip to Sierra Leone, she revealed that she had breastfed the starving baby of another woman, who could not produce milk.
Salma recorded the song "La Bruja" featured in the movie Frida with band "Los Vega" which is included in the film's soundtrack. She also recorded the song "Siente mi amor" for the Once Upon a Time in Mexico soundtrack and song "Quedate Aqui" for the Desperado soundtrack.
Salma was terrified after bumping into the niece of the real Frida Kahlo she plays in 'Frida', and even more shocked to find the relative loved her role.
She is the godmother to director Robert Rodriguez's children.
In 2009, Salma developed a cosmetics line inspired by her maternal grandmother, former cosmetologist Maria Luisa, whose home-made potions kept her skin glowing well into her 90s.
Salma directed a music video "Te Amo Corazon" for Prince.
Salma visited Guatemala in 2006 from May 2 - May 5 as an ambassador for the Youth/AIDS Life Project along with Ashley Judd and Colombian pop singer Juanes. They promoted the prevention of mortal diseases.
After a misunderstanding on a British talk show, Salma has been forced to deny rumors that she is a lesbian. The interviewer, Eamonn Holmes, was curious about her name which does not sound Mexican. She replied "I'm half Lebanese", but he misheard her and said "So you're a lesbian?"
In 2003, during the Academy Awards ceremony, she was suffering from a fever of 101.
Salma has described herself as a troublemaker for sticking to her opinions and not letting people push her around.
Her brother, Sami, designs custom chairs. Some of his clients include Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt.
Salma does not conform to stereotypes or the usual Hollywood expectations, she has denounced the practice of extreme dieting, saying that it makes women "bit**es".
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So beautiful...if i wanted to ever look like someone it would be salma
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