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Salma Hayek. Biography. Salma Hayek’s birth name is S alma Valgarma Hayek-Jimenez. She was born on September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico.
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Biography • Salma Hayek’s birth name is Salma Valgarma Hayek-Jimenez. • She was born on September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. • Her mother, Diana Jimenez Hayek, is an opera singer. Her father, Sami Hayek, is in management at an oil company.Her brother, Sami Hayek Jr., is a custom chair designer for celebrities such as Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt. • She is married to Francois-Henri Pinault and has a daughter named Valentina Paloma Pinault. • When Salma was 12, she attended a boarding school in New Orleans, but was quickly expelled for pranking the nuns. • She went to Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City to study acting. • She came to Hollywood when she was 24. • Salma tiene cuarenta y seis años. • Ella es una famosa actriz.
Acting Accomplishments • Salma’sfirst role was a minor part in the soap opera called Nuevo Amanecer in Mexico. • In 1995, she got her first big role in the United States in the movie Desperado starring with Antonio Banderas. • In the movie Fools Rush In, she gets her first listing as a lead star. • In 2002, Salma produced and starred in the movie Frida which is about Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter. She was nominated for an Oscar for the movie in the Best Actress category. • She won an ALMA award for best actress for the TV movie In the Time of the Butterflies in 2001. • Salma es talentosa. • Ella es decidido. See the trailer for Salma's film "Here Comes the Boom" A still from her film “Fools Rush In” with co-star Matthew Perry
Other Achievements • Salma is fluent in four languages. They are Spanish, English, Portuguese and Arabic. • She became the Revlon spokesperson in 1997. • She was knighted in France by France’s Legion of Honor in January of 2012. • She started her own production company called Ventanarosa. • Ventanarosa produced No One Writes to the Colonel which was submitted by Mexico for an Oscar and was played at the Cannes Film Festival. • Salma es bonita. • Ella es inteligente. See Salma in a commercial!
Legacy • Salma was the first Latino actress to be nominated in the best actress category for an Oscar. • She became a star in Mexico after starring in the soap opera “Teresa” in 1989. • She is against domestic violence, and in 2005, she spoke to a U.S. Senate committee about stopping it. • She is a member of the Avon Foundation campaign called Speak Out Against Domestic Violence. • In 2006, she stood up for illegal immigrants by speaking out against a U.S. law that would make them criminals. • Salma es una buena persona. • Ella ayuda immigrantes. • Sources: www.imdb.com, www.people.com, www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com