| Salma Hayek  AKA Salma Hayek Jimenez
Born: 2-Sep-1966
Birthplace: Coatzacoalcos, Mexico
Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Frida Salma Hayek's parents sent her to a Catholic boarding school in Louisiana, where she was expelled for playing pranks on the nuns. She later studied political science at the College of Mexico City, but decided to pursue acting. Her first play, Aladino y la Lampara Maravillosa, put her character in peril, and performances were repeatedly interrupted by young boys from the audience bursting onto the stage to "save" her. That got producers' attention, and Hayek was soon making TV commercials, then winning fame and awards for Mexican TV dramas like Nuevo Amanecer and Teresa.
To the surprise of her fans, she left her Mexican fame and came to America, where she started over as yet unknown actress in Hollywood. Most of her American auditions ended in disappointment, until she was cast in Allison Anders's bilingual drama Mi Vida Loca in 1993. She was in Sinbad's short-lived sit-com The Sinbad Show, and achieved American fame in Robert Rodriguez's Desperado, opposite Antonio Banderas. In 2002 she starred in and produced Frida, a biopic of Frida Kahlo, and in 2006 she brought the telenovela to American TV with Ugly Betty.
Father: Sami Hayek Dominguez (oil company executive)
Mother: Diana Jimenez Hayek Dominguez (opera singer)
Brother: Sami Hayek
Boyfriend: Richard Crenna Jr. (actor, b. 1962, dated early 1990s)
Boyfriend: Edward Atterton (actor, dated 1997-99)
Boyfriend: Edward Norton (actor, dated 1999-2003)
Boyfriend: Josh Lucas (actor, dated 2004, broken engagement)
Boyfriend: Francois-Henri Pinault (businessman, one daughter)
Daughter: Valentina Paloma Pinault (b. 21-Sep-2007)
March of Dimes
Endorsement of Avon
Endorsement of Coca Cola 2004
Endorsement of Coors 1999
Endorsement of Revlon 1997
Spanish Ancestry Maternal
Lebanese Ancestry Paternal
Risk Factors: Dyslexia, Smoking
TELEVISION
Ugly Betty Executive Producer
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
The Maldonado Miracle (20-Jan-2003)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Across the Universe (10-Sep-2007)
Lonely Hearts (30-Apr-2006)
Ask the Dust (2-Feb-2006)
Bandidas (18-Jan-2006)
After the Sunset (10-Nov-2004)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (27-Aug-2003)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (25-Jul-2003)
Frida (29-Aug-2002)
Searching for Debra Winger (16-May-2002) Herself
In the Time of the Butterflies (21-Oct-2001)
America: A Tribute to Heroes (21-Sep-2001) Herself
Hotel (12-Sep-2001)
Welcome to Hollywood (27-Oct-2000) Herself
Living It Up (11-Oct-2000)
Chain of Fools (22-Sep-2000)
Timecode (22-Mar-2000)
Dogma (12-Nov-1999)
Wild Wild West (30-Jun-1999)
No One Writes to the Colonel (2-Jun-1999)
Get Bruce (24-Jan-1999) Herself
The Faculty (12-Nov-1998)
The Velocity of Gary (22-Sep-1998)
54 (28-Aug-1998)
Breaking Up (17-Oct-1997)
Who the Hell Is Juliette? (5-Sep-1997) Herself
The Hunchback (16-Mar-1997)
Fools Rush In (14-Feb-1997)
Fled (19-Jul-1996)
From Dusk Till Dawn (19-Jan-1996)
Follow Me Home (1996)
Fair Game (3-Nov-1995)
Four Rooms (16-Sep-1995)
Midaq Alley (5-May-1995)
Desperado (May-1995)
Roadracers (22-Jul-1994)
My Crazy Life (21-May-1993)
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