Salma Hayek - Gorgeous Beauty
Salma Hayek is a
Gorgeous Actress, director and a producer.
Salma Hayek born on September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico and was raised in a well-to-do Catholic home, Hayek is the daughter of a Spanish mother and Lebanese
father.
Salma Hayek attended a convent school in
Louisiana at the age of 12 and lived with her aunt in
Houston, Texas, during her
teens. After a brief stint at a university in Mexico City, she dropped out to pursue a career in acting, eventually becoming a soap star in her native
Mexico.
Salma Hayek - Gorgeous Beauty
In 1991, the ambitious
Salma Hayek moved to
Los Angeles, determined to improve her English and become a Hollywood actress. After small gigs, she landed a role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Desperado. The success of the film garnered her work in relatively lackluster movies, including the teen thriller The Faculty, 1999's
Wild Wild West and 1997's Fools Rush In. Subsequently,
Salma Hayek became engaged with smaller, independent pictures and started her own production company, Ventanarosa.
Salma Hayek - Gorgeous Beauty
Actress Salma Hayek's increasingly intellectual and passionate approach to filmmaking culminated in her dream role in 2002's Frida, in which she both produced and starred. The film was nominated for six
Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Hayek, who was the first Latin actress to be nominated in the category.
Salma Hayek - Gorgeous Beauty
ActressSalma Hayek Large-scale projects followed the success of Frida, including directing 2002's The Maldonado Miracle, starring in the final episode of the Desperado trilogy,
Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and appearing in the heist thriller After The Sunset with Pierce Brosnan.
Salma Hayek - Gorgeous Beauty
Emmy-winner and Oscar nominee
Salma Hayek is executive producer of the hit television series Ugly Betty which is based on the Colombian telenovela "Yo Soy Betty La Fea." The show premiered on ABC in September 2006 and won a Golden
Globe for Best Comedy in 2007. Also in 2007, the show's star, America Ferrera, won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Salma Hayek - Gorgeous Beauty
Demonstrating her comedic skills,
Salma Hayek made a series of guest appearances on the popular sitcom 30 Rock in 2009. She played a nurse who becomes romantically involved with a television network executive played by Alec
Baldwin. She is also slated to appear opposite Adam Sandler in upcoming comedy Grown Ups.
Salma Hayek - Gorgeous Beauty
Salma Hayek - Gorgeous Beauty
Salma Hayek - Gorgeous Beauty
Engaged to luxury goods Francois-Henri Pinault, Hayek gave birth to daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault on September 21, 2007, in Los Angeles. The couple later married on Valentine's Day in 2009 in Paris and held a second ceremony soon after in Venice.
Salma Hayek previously dated several actors, including Edward Norton, Edward Atterton, and Richard Crenna, Jr.
