Salma Hayek, Actress, - Biography
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Born September 2, 1966, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico
Height
5 foot 2 ( 1.57 M )
Salma Hayek Jiménez is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican-American actress, Daytime Emmy-winning director, & a film & television producer. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films & performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico & Spain.
Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women & discrimination against immigrants.
Early life & career in Mexico
Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz,
Mexico to Sami Hayek, a Lebanese Mexican oil company executive, & Diana Jiménez,
an opera singer. Hayek's paternal grandparents were Mexicans of Lebanese Arab
descent, while her mother is of Spanish descent. Reflecting her Arab heritage,
her first name literally means ‘peace’ or ‘calm’ in Arabic.
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 aspiring to compete in the Olympics but her father prevented her from
being recruited by the Mexican national team.
The religious sisters running the Academy ejected Hayek citing behavioral problems, so she returned to Mexico. She was later sent to live with her aunt in Houston, Texas, where she stayed until she was 17. She attended college in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana. To the chagrin of her family, she dropped out to pursue a career as an actress.
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 El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), which has won more awards than any other movie in the history of Mexican cinema. For her performance Hayek was nominated for an Ariel Award.
Career in Hollywood
Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991
to study acting under Stella Adler, hoping for a career in Hollywood. Robert Rodriguez
& his producer wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave Hayek the break she needed,
a starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Desperado. The movie caught
Hollywood's attention, as moviegoers proved to be as dazzled by Hayek as Rodriguez
had been. Due to Salma's loyalty to the director she would later decline playing
the role Catherine Zeta-Jones eventually took in The Mask of Zorro after Rodriguez
abandoned the project.
Hayek followed her success in Desperado with a brief but memorable role in From Dusk Till Dawn. In 1999 she co-starred in Will Smith's big-budget Wild Wild West, & played a supporting role in Kevin Smith's Dogma. In 2000 she had an uncredited acting part opposite Benicio Del Toro in Traffic.
Around this time Hayek founded production company Ventanarosa, through which she produces film & television projects. Her first feature as a producer was 1999's El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, Mexico's official selection for submission for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars.
Hayek with Frida co-star & friend Ashley Judd.Frida, co-produced by Hayek, was released in 2002. Starring Hayek as Frida Kahlo, & Alfred Molina as her unfaithful husband, Diego Rivera, the film was directed by Julie Taymor & also featured an entourage of stars in supporting roles, including Antonio Banderas, Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush, Edward Norton & Valeria Golino. She earned a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her performance. This made Hayek, along with Katy Jurado & Adriana Barraza, one of only three Mexican actresses to have been nominated for an Academy Award.
Following Frida, in 2003 she reprised her role from Desperado by appearing in the final film of the Mariachi Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in Mexico. In that same year she produced & directed the The Maldonado Miracle, a Showtime movie which won her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special. In December 2005 she directed a music video for Prince, titled Te Amo Corazon ("I love you, sweetheart") that featured her good friend Mia Maestro.
Hayek is an executive producer of Ugly Betty, television series airing around the world since September 2006. Hayek adapted the series for American television with Ben Silverman, who acquired the rights & scripts from the Colombian Telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea in 2001. Originally intended as a half hour sitcom for NBC in 2004, the project would later be picked up by ABC for the 2006-2007 season with Silvio Horta also producing. Hayek guest-starred on Ugly Betty as Sofia Reyes, a magazine editor. She also had a cameo playing an actress in the telenovela within the show. The show quickly became a ratings hit & won a Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy Series in 2007.
Hayek has also been credited as a song performer in three movies. The first was Desperado for the song Quedate Aquí. In Frida she performed with band Los Vega the Mexican folk song La Bruja. She also recorded Siente mi amor, which played during the end credits of Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
In April 2007 Hayek finalized negotiations with MGM to become the CEO of her own Latin themed film production company, Ventanazul.
Other work
Hayek has been a spokesperson for Avon
Products, Inc. since February 2004. She formerly served in the same function for
Revlon in 1998. In 2001, she modeled for Chopard & was featured in 2006 Campari
adverts as photographed by Mario Testino. On April 3rd of that year she helped
introduce La Doña, a watch by Cartier inspired by fellow Mexican actress
María Félix.
She was also featured in a series of Spanish language commercials for Lincoln cars. Consequently sales of the Lincoln Navigator among Hispanics increased by twelve percentage points.
In art
In the
spring of 2006, The Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, Texas displayed
sixteen portrait paintings by muralist George Yepes of Hayek as Aztec goddess
Itzapapalotl.
Personal life
Hayek dated fellow actor Edward Norton for
four years, between 1999 & 2003, & then Josh Lucas from 2003 until 2004.
Hayek has homes in Los Angeles & Mexico & is best friends with Spanish
actress Penelope Cruz. The two co-starred in the 2006 film, Bandidas. Hayek studied
at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment.
On March 9, 2007, Salma's publicist Ina Treciokas of ID PR confirmed the actress was engaged to François Pinault's son, François-Henri Pinault & are also expecting their first child together.
Honors
Recipient of Glamour magazine Woman of the Year Award
in October 2001.
Recipient of Producers Guild of America Celebration of Diversity
Award in 2003.
Recipient of Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year Award in
February 2006.
Written in May 2007
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