Salma Hayek Biography

Name : Salma Hayek

Real Name : Salma Hayek Jimenez

Date Of Birth : September 2, 1966

Place of Birth : Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico

Height : 5'2''

Weight : 115 lbs

Eyes : Dark brown

Hair : Black

Occupation : Actress

Education : College dropout

Companion : Edward Norton

Fan Mail : C/O William Morris Agency
151 El Camino Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
USA

Salma Hayek Trivia

Salma is the new face of the 118-year-old cosmetic firm Avon. Avon signed the Oscar-nominated actress February 2003 as its spokesperson, in an effort to overhaul its image. The Hollywood leading lady has also committed herself to be the spokesperson for Avon�s anti-domestic violence initiative, which aims to champion the health and wellbeing of women around the world.
Had to miss the inauguration ceremony of the 17,000-seat theatre in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico because of delays of LAS BANDIDAS filming. (November 23, 2004)
Split from her boyfriend of a year, actor Josh Lucas. (2004)
Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek are poised to team up as a pair of bank robbers in new movie set in Mexico -- The project is currently untitled and a director has yet to be recruited. (November 5, 2003)
Named one of the Best-Dressed Celebrities by America's People magazine. (September 15, 2003)
Hayek yearns for a simple country life, and insists the bright lights of Hollywood have failed to dim her agricultural ambition, which is having a chicken farm. (September 12, 2003)
Hayek has found a new man after splitting from Edward Norton, in the shape of actor Josh Lucas -- The couple have been seen out and about in Hollywood in recent weeks, and friends are convinced they're set to become Tinseltown's next big couple. (August 14, 2003)
Edward Norton and Salma Hayek's suspected break-up has been confirmed -- While promoting his new movie SPY KIDS 3-D: GAME OVER, in which Hayek co-stars, child actor Daryl Sabara revealed on Monday, I was showing off (to Hayek), you know? She isn't with Ed Norton anymore. (July 23, 2003)
Initially turned down the offer to direct the upcoming cable television movie THE MALDONADO MIRACLE that stars Ruben Blades, Peter Fonda and Mare Winningham.
Hayek said on Monday that while her controversial film portrayal of artist Frida Kahlo was a high point in her career, financially it was a losing proposition for her. (March 18, 2003)
Hayek was terrified after bumping into the niece of the real-life character she plays in new movie FRIDA, and even more shocked to find the relative loved her role. (February 22, 2003)
Hayek shivered in the cold at the premiere of her film FRIDA on Thursday � she waved to fans and signed autographs outside the Odeon Cinema in London's Leicester Square, declined to remove her red velvet coat to reveal the glamorous cream gown underneath, declaring herself freezing. (February 14, 2003)
Has the most-desired jawline and chin, according to an annual survey conducted by the Beverly Hills Institute For Aesthetic And Reconstructive Surgery in Los Angeles. (February 6, 2003)
Hayek is having fun at the Sundance Film Festival. The actress, who is known for her seriousness, lightened up after the standing ovation she received for her directorial debut, THE MALDONADO MIRACLE, which debuted on Monday night. (January 23, 2003)
Hayek has turned her back on Catholicism because she disagrees with the church's stance on homosexuals -- the Mexican actress, who plays bisexual artist Frida Kahlo in new movie Frida, admits she has always had problems with sexism and homophobia in the church. (January 4, 2003)
FRIDA, the Hollywood film about the bohemian cult painter Frida Kahlo starring Mexican heartthrob and former soap star Salma Hayek in the title role, got a broad thumbs up on its debut in her Mexican homeland, although the fact it was in English ruffled some nationalists. (November 22, 2002)
Hayek has come home to promote her latest film, FRIDA, before it opens nationally in Mexico on Nov. 20, but the few local critics who have seen the Miramax film have bristled at what they termed superficial portrayals of some of Mexico's most revered artists by foreigners speaking accented English. (November 11, 2002)
Hayek became living art in the new movie FRIDA -- director Julie Taymor created living versions of some of Frida Kahlo's paintings with Hayek. (November 2, 2002)
Hayek has told how she was kidnapped at gunpoint and held for ransom - and loved it; she says: They put a gun to my head and I said, kill me. I believe in reincarnation. I'll just come back.
Hayek said she misses the days when she had one eyebrow because it would have come in handy for the movie in which she plays the legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, notorious for her thick, connecting eyebrow. (September 2002)
Finally she glowed with satisfaction on Friday after the world premiere of FRIDA, the film she fought for seven years to make -- The movie tells the story of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her troubled love affair with muralist Diego Rivera in the politically-charged 1930s and 1940s. (September 3, 2002)
She is a former soap opera star in Mexico
Had to see off competition from Jennifer Lopez and Madonna who were eying Frida Kahlo scripts.
For the Frida role she had to shed her sultry image, donning fake eyebrows and shaving her upper lip to get a bit of stubble that would make her look more like the Bohemian Kahlo.
Hayek tackled what she called the role of her lifetime as the controversial painter whose marriage to world-renowned muralist Rivera, and affair with Leon Trotsky, captivated the politically charged art world of the 1930s and '40s.
A former soap opera star in Mexico, she arrived in Hollywood as a virtual unknown and had to fight for years to see her dream come to life.
Though she spoke no English, she jumped into the fray and eventually scored a role in DESPERADO, Robert Rodriguez's 1995 sequel to his much-touted EL MARIACHI.
Was never going to have a middle name
Just weeks after being attacked by a monkey, she has been brutalized by another member of the animal kingdom.
Has stunned Hollywood by romping with a Saudi tycoon in the Mediterranean.
Is boosting the Latin arts
Went to extreme lengths to get the right look for her new film - she grew a moustache.
Does very little exercise and never goes to a gym.
Plays the dancing woman on the TV screen in THE MISBEHAVIORS, directed by Robert Rodriguez. She has appeared in numerous films by the director.
In FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996) she plays a stripper from hell. Later in Dogma she plays a stripper from heaven.
Was considered for a role in DIE ANOTHER DAY (2002)



Salma Hayek Detailed Biography
A bona fide celebrity goddess in her native Mexico, Hayek emigrated in 1991 to Los Angeles, where she willingly plunged to the bottom of the heap in order to take a shot at conquering Hollywood. Intensive lessons, both in English and acting, paid handsome dividends in 1995, when the diminutive dynamo lit a fire under Antonio Banderas in wunderkind director Robert Rodriguez's balletic bullet ballad Desperado. Continuing to collect hunky co-stars, Hayek struck sparks with a Baldwin brother in both Fair Game and Fled, and made an undead love slave out of George Clooney in From Dusk 'Til Dawn. Salma Hayek Internet shrines cropped up like weeds, and in 1997 the sultry spitfire landed her first lead role in the States, playing opposite Friends fave Matthew Perry in the cross-cultural romantic comedy Fools Rush In.

The daughter of a Lebanese-descended father and a Spanish-descended mother, Hayek was born and raised in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Determined to see that her grandchild develop into a ravishing beauty, her grandmother frequently shaved young Salma's head and clipped her eyebrows, in the belief that such treatments would add body and sheen to her granddaughter's thick dark locks. Equally determined to see that she became well-educated, Hayek's staunchly Catholic parents shipped her off to a boarding school in Louisiana when she was 12. While the beguiling youngster proved both attentively studious and properly religious, she also displayed a bent for mischief that she chiefly directed against the long-suffering nuns who ran the school: among other infamies, she once slipped into the faculty dormitory and set all of the alarm clocks back three hours. The end result of such she-nun-igans was that Hayek ended up suspended and carted back home after just two years. It only took her two more years to finish high school, and her mother, fearful of the effects ''college boys'' might have on her impressionable young daughter, sent Hayek to Houston, where she lived with an aunt until her 17th birthday.

Returning to Mexico once more, Hayek relocated to Mexico City to attend college, where she commenced international relations studies. Though she had harbored acting ambitions since childhood, Hayek had for years been reluctant to seriously pursue such a chancy vocation for fear of alienating her parents. Ultimately, she decided the path of the dutiful daughter and stable career girl was one she could not bear to walk and frankly confronted her parents about her aspiration. As she later told one interviewer, ''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.''' In spite of voluble objections from her family and the derision and disbelief of her friends, Hayek quit college and determinedly embarked on an acting career. 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 credit, Hayek 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, Hayek 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. Also during that period, Hayek studied acting under famed dramatician Stella Adler, and taught herself to drive a car: two days of stick-shift driving convinced her to switch to automatic, and she slowly acquainted herself with the tangled maze of L.A.'s freeways by continually requesting directions from her more streetwise friends via her trusty cellular phone. Hayek'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 Hayek's tenacity so impressed the director 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 Hayek'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 Hayek'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 Hayek, 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 Hayek rave reviews for her show-stopping, saliva-inducing performance. Despite the fact she was disappointingly underrepresented in her next two outings, in the limp thrillers Fair Game and Fled, Hayek'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.

Hayek'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 recently in competition at Cannes. Hayek is currently filming the biopic Frida, in which she tackles a much-coveted portrayal of painter Frida Kahlo.

On a more personal note, Hayek is romantically attached to actor Ed Norton.


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