Salma Hayek
Gender: Female
Born: 2nd September 1966 (currently 45 years old)
Nationality: Mexico, United States of America
TV programs: Ugly Betty, The Sinbad Show, 30 Rock, Action
Movies: 54, After the Sunset, Ask the Dust, Bandidas, Desperado, Dogma, Frida, From Dusk Till Dawn, Full Tilt Boogie, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Roadracers, The Faculty, Timecode, Wild Wild West, Chain of Fools, Lonely Hearts, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Fools Rush In, The Velocity of Gary, In the Time of the Butterflies, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, The Alley of Miracles, Who the Hell Is Juliette?, Fair Game, Fled, Breaking Up, Grown Ups, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, The Hunchback, No One Writes to the Colonel, Follow Me Home, Hotel, Traffic, Death to Smoochy, Mi Vida Loca, Living It Up, Wild Roses, Tender Roses, Puss in Boots, The Pirates! Band of Misfits, Here Comes the Boom, Savages, Prince Vaali, Searching for Debra Winger, Stupidity, V-Day: Until the Violence Stops, Four Rooms, Americano, As Luck Would Have It
Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsalma ˈxaʝek]; born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican American film actress, director and producer. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.
Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, the daughter of Diana Jiménez Medina, an opera singer and talent scout, and Sami Hayek Dominguez, an oil company executive who once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos. Hayek's father is of Lebanese ancestry, while her mother's ancestry is Spanish. Her first given name, Salma, is Arabic for "safe". Raised in a wealthy, devoutly Roman Catholic family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, at the age of twelve. While there, she was diagnosed with dyslexia. She attended college in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana.
At the age of 23, Hayek landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful Mexican telenovela that made her a star in Mexico. In 1994, Hayek starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), which has won more awards than any other movie in the history of
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