Salma Hayek Pinault (born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez; September 2, 1966) is a Mexican-American film actress, producer, and former model. She began her career in Mexico starring in the telenovela Teresa and starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley) for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award. In 1991, Hayek moved to Hollywood and came to prominence with roles in films such as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, Dogma, and Wild Wild West.
Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 film Frida as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo for which she was nominated in the category of Best Actress for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Golden Globe Award. This movie received widespread attention and was a critical and commercial success. She also guest-starred on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock from 2009 to 2013.
She portrayed Francesca Giggles in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.
Early life
Hayek was born Salma Hayek Jiménez in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. Her younger brother, Sami (born 1972), is a furniture designer.[1] Her mother, Diana Jiménez Medina, is an opera singer and talent scout. Her father, Sami Hayek Domínguez, is an oil company executive and owner of an industrial-equipment firm,[2] who once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos.[3][4] Her father is Mexican of Christian Lebanese descent,[5] with his family being from the city of Baabdat, Lebanon, a city Salma and her father visited in 2015 to promote her movie Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.[6][7][8][9] Her mother is Mexican of Spanish descent.
In an interview in 2015 with Un Nuevo Día while visiting Madrid, Hayek described herself as fifty-percent Lebanese and fifty-percent Spanish, stating that her grandmother/maternal great-grandparents were from Spain.[5][10][11][12] Raised in a wealthy, devout Roman Catholic[13] family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, USA, at the age of twelve.[5] In school, she was diagnosed with dyslexia.[14] She attended university in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana.[5]
| This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors). |
References
- ↑ http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20146328,00.html
- ↑ http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20146328,00.html
- ↑ Love, Bret (March 2003). "The Beautiful Mind of Salma Hayek". Razor Magazine, p. 48
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/17/books/footlights.html
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 https://web.archive.org/web/20080828165111/http://www.bravotv.com/Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guest/Salma_Hayek
- ↑ http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKBN0NI16W20150427?irpc=932
- ↑ http://www.helloonline.com/profiles/salma-hayek/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140118063629/http://www.revistaelheraldodeveracruz.com.mx/page25.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt25rR0rzdA
- ↑ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2YDVSTO1-8
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080603193139/http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=14514423
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000161/bio
- ↑ http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/salma-hayek/
- ↑ http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/salma-hayek-mom-on-a-mission
External links
- Salma Hayek at the Internet Movie Database
- Salma Hayek on Twitter