Salma Hayek

At 57 years old, Salma Hayek has this physical status:

Salma Hayek Pinault (born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez; September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American film actress and producer.

She began her career in Mexico starring in the telenovela Teresa and starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley) for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award.

In 1991, Hayek moved to Hollywood and came to prominence with roles in films such as Desperado (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Wild Wild West, and Dogma (both 1999). Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 film Frida, as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, for which she was nominated for Best Actress for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award, and which she also produced.

This movie received widespread attention and was a critical and commercial success. She won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special for The Maldonado Miracle in 2004, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series after guest-starring in the ABC television comedy-drama Ugly Betty in 2007.

She also guest-starred on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock from 2009 to 2013.

In 2017, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her role in Beatriz at Dinner.Hayek's recent films include Grown Ups (2010), Puss in Boots (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), Tale of Tales (2015) and The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017).

Early life

Salma Hayek Jiménez was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. Her father, Sami Hayek Domínguez, is of Lebanese descent. His ancestors hail from the city of Baabdat, Lebanon, a city Salma and her father visited in 2015 to promote her movie Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet. He owns an industrial-equipment firm and is an oil company executive in Mexico; he once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos. Her mother, Diana Jiménez Medina, is an opera singer and talent scout; she is of Spanish descent. While visiting Madrid in an interview in 2015 with Un Nuevo Día, Hayek described herself as fifty-percent Lebanese and fifty-percent Spanish saying that her grandmother/maternal great-grandparents were from Spain. Her younger brother, Sami, is a furniture designer.

Hayek was raised in a wealthy, devout Catholic family, and at age 12 opted to study at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. In school, she was diagnosed with dyslexia. She attended university at the Universidad Iberoamericana studying international relations. In a 2011 interview with V magazine, Hayek mentioned that she was once an illegal immigrant in the United States, although it was not for a long period of time.

Personal life

Hayek is a naturalized United States citizen. She has studied at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment and practices yoga. Hayek, who was raised Catholic, stated in a 2007 interview that she was no longer devout and did not believe in the Church, in part because she disagreed with practices such as its campaign against condoms in Africa, where she said AIDS and overpopulation were rampant, though she clarified that she still believed in Jesus Christ and God.

On March 9, 2007, Hayek confirmed her engagement to French billionaire and Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault as well as her pregnancy. She gave birth to their daughter on September 21, 2007, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. They were married on Valentine's Day 2009 in Paris. On April 25, 2009, they renewed their vows in Venice, Italy.

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Career

Hayek's first screen appearance was in the television series Un Nuevo Amanecer (1988), which earned her the TVyNovelas Award for Outstanding Debut Actress. Hayek, who was 23 at the time, was chosen to perform in Teresa (1989–1991), a popular Mexican telenovela that made her a main actress in Mexico, later televisa. The series lasted for two years and 125 episodes, and she was honoured with the 1990 TVyNovelas Award for Best Female Revelation.

Hayek, who wanted to work in Hollywood, moved to Los Angeles in 1991 after Teresa's death. She joined English lessons and studied acting under Stella Adler shortly after discovering limited fluency in English and dyslexia. Hayek started struggling with the lack of acting jobs after relocating to the United States, recalling that "there were no industries or parts for Latin women" and that her accent would "make moviegoers think of housekeepers." She gained guest-spots in television shows including Dream On (1992) and The Sinbad Show (1993), as well as supporting roles in the drama Mi Vida Loca (1993) and the made-for-Showtime thriller Roadracers (1994), her first collaboration with director Robert Rodriguez (1994).

In Jorge Fons' drama El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), based on Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz's 1940s eponymous book and translated from Cairo to Mexico City, Hayek was cast as Alma, a homeless young woman who turns into a sex worker. The film was lauded by critics, received more accolades than any other film in Mexican cinema history, and earned Hayek a nomination for Best Actress.

In Desperado (1995), Robert Rodriguez and his co-producer and then-wife, Elizabeth Avellan, starred Hayek in the leading role of the self-confident and feisty Carolina, which was also considered her breakout film by Antonio Banderas. Hayek had to audition multiple times for Rodriguez before landing the role, and a love scene in the script was particularly difficult for her to film because she did not want to be nude on film. "It took eight hours [to film] rather than an hour," she said once. Desperado, a $7 million project, was a commercial success, grossing $25.4 million in the United States. In Rodriguez's cult horror film From Dusk to Dawn (1996), she appeared as a vampire queen for a brief period of time. In 1996, she appeared in both the drama Follow Me Home and the cop comedy Fled.

In the romantic comedy Fools Rush In (1997), Hayek starred as a photographer and the on-and-off girlfriend of a New York City architect, opposite Matthew Perry. Roger Ebert, a film critic, rated the film 3 stars out of a possible four and described it as "a sweet, amusing retread of an ancient formula" with good performances (particularly Hayek) and an insightful "level of observation and human comedy." Fool's Rush Intuitive Filming was a moderate commercial success, and Hayek received an ALMA Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film. She and Russell Crowe portrayed a couple whose marriage results in an out-of-the-blue marriage in another romantic comedy, Breaking Up (also 1997). "Russell Crowe and Salma Hayek are good leads, but they lack neither the marquee power nor the requisite chemistry to keep Breaking Up from being left at the altar of general distribution," Variety magazine's Ken Eisner wrote. In fact, the film was only distributed in selected markets in the United States.

Hayek played an aspiring singer in Mark Christopher's drama 54, a doughnut shop waitress in Dan Ireland's dramedy The Faculty, a supernatural horror film starring Gary Lynch. Hayek was unorthodoxly cast as Serendipity, "the [Muse] who has inspired all the greatest art and music thinkers, including Mozart and Michelangelo, but never received any of the credit," in Kevin Smith's satire Dogma, depicting the alleged daughter of a kidnapped scientist alongside Will Smith. Critics and audiences loved Dogma, while Wild West proved to be a commercial failure despite being one of the most expensive films ever made when accounting for inflation at the time of its release.

In 1999, Hayek formed Ventanarosa, which produces film and television projects. El Coronel Quien Le Escriba (1999), Mexico's first film feature, was her first feature as a producer. Hayek appeared in the experimental film Timecode, a waitress in the Spanish drama Living It Up, and a cop and Playboy model in Chain of Fools in 2000. She produced and starred in the television film In the Time of the Butterflies (2001), based on Julia lvarez's book of the same name that chronicles the lives of the Mirabal sisters' lives. Hayek played Minerva, one of the sisters, and Edward James Olmos played Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, who the sisters detested.

Hayek appeared in Julie Taymor's biographical film Frida (2002) as a producer and actor, and she appeared as surrealist painter Frida Kahlo. "I was drawn to the role from the time she was 13 or 14 years old, but not immediately a fan." But something that intrigued me and the more I learned about her work, the more I learned, the more I learned, the more I appreciated her work. There was a lot of passion and insight in the film. Some people see only pain, but I also see humour and comedic art. I think what draws me to her is what [husband] Diego saw in her. She was a fighter. Many things may have weakened her spirits, such as the car accident or Diego's infidelities. However, she wasn't killed by anything." Rivera's heir, Dolores Olmedo Patino, a long-lived, and a long-serving patron of Frida and Rivera's art, was so determined to play the role, she begged her to obey the Mexican people's right to defend Frida and Rivera's arts, which Rivera had "willed [...] to the Mexican people." Hayek personally acquired access to Kahlo's works and began to create a supporting cast, preparing Alfred Molina for the role of Rivera in 1998. Frida, a critical darling and an arthouse triumph upon its debut, was a critical darling and an arthouse success. "This Frida is nobody's servant," David Denby of The New Yorker said in his review of the film, "Smart, willful, and perverse, this Frida is no one's servant, and she wears her head held high." Kahlo's portrayal made her the first Mexican actress to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, Screen Actor Award, and British Academy Film Award nominations for Best Actress.

Hayek created and directed The Maldonado Miracle, a Showtime film based on the book of the same name for which she received the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children's Special, and she appeared in the film V-Day: Until the Violence Stops in 2003. Once Upon a Time in Mexico, which earned $98.2 million worldwide, was the last film of the Mariachi Trilogy and featured Hayek reprising her role from Desperado.

Hayek appeared as the girlfriend of a master thief in Brett Ratner's action comedy After the Sunset (2004), Hayek appeared as the girlfriend of a master thief with Pierce Brosnan. The film, which was largely critical, received mainly critical feedback from analysts. James Berardinelli found the film to be "a mess," but "it's] a fun, breezy mess," criticizing the overall heist and weak characterization, but the film's rapid pacing chemistry between Brosnan and Hayek. She appeared in "Te Amo Corazon" ("I love you, sweetheart"), and co-sponsored the annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert with Julianne Moore in Oslo, Norway, and produced a music video for Prince Ma Maestro starring Ma Maestro in 2005.

Hayek appeared alongside her good friend Penelope Cruz in the 2006 Western comedy Bandidas, portrayed two women who have turned into a bank robber duo in an attempt to combat a ruthless narcotic terrorizing their community. Hayek and her co-star Penelope Cruz were the "lusty dream team" in the film, according to Randy Cordova of the Arizona Republic, who said they were the "marketing fantasy" in the film. Bandidas was followed by Ask the Dust, a period romance film set in Los Angeles based on a John Fante book and co-starring Colin Farrell. "Something a little forcible in both lead roles," Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian discovered, and the film was not a commercial success. Lonely Hearts, a neo-noir crime drama chronicling the notorious "lonely hearts killers" of the 1940s, Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, in which Hayek played Beck, with Jared Leto playing Fernandez. Critics divided the film, but the cast deserved praise. "You don't look away when Hayek and Leto are on camera." Rolling Stone's Peter Travers said.

Hayek developed Ugly Betty (2006–2010), a film by Ben Silverman who adapted the story for American television with Ben Silverman, who obtained the rights and scripts from the Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea in 2001. The project was originally planned as a half-hour sitcom for NBC in 2004, but it would eventually be picked up by ABC for the 2006–2007 season, with Silvio Horta also producing. Sofia Reyes, a magazine editor, appeared on the series as Sofia Reyes, a magazine editor. At the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards, Ugly Betty was a hit with critics and audiences, earning Hayek nominations for both Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Comedy Series. Hayek signed a two-year contract with ABC for Ventanarosa to develop projects for the network after finalizing talks with MGM to become the CEO of her own Latin-themed film production company, Ventanarosa.

In Julie Taymor's jukebox musical romantic drama Across the Universe, Hayek made a cameo appearance as a nurse performing a remix of The Beatles' "Happiness Is A Warm Gun." Madame Truska, a woman who can grow an indestructible beard, was in Cirque du Freak's first acting role after her daughter's birth. Author Darren Shan's film adaptation The Saga of Darren Shan's book series The Saga of Darren Shan "a little bit of hard work." However, it's not like I have to be terribly ill for months. The film was both a critical and commercial failure. Hayek is "fun as the bearded lady Madame Truska," according to Screen Rant, but [...] is unable to single-handedly elevate the content."

Hayek's comedy Grown Ups in 2010 featured a fashion designer and the wife of a Hollywood talent agent (Adam Sandler), despite a poor critical reception, grossing $271.4 million globally. Kitty Softpaws, a street-savvy Tuxedo cat, appears in Puss in Boots (2011), alongside Antonio Banderas. Critics loved Puss in Boots' spin-off of the Shrek franchise, and the 84th Academy Awards were named for Best Animated Feature. In 2011, she won two international film awards for Best Actress and Best Actress, respectively.

Jada Pinkett Smith, a singer who lent her voice to Peter Lord's animated film The Pirates, appeared in Hayek's "Nada Se Compara" in 2012. In an Adventure with Scientists!, I played a cartel leader in Oliver Stone's action film Savages and a school nurse in Frank Coraci's comedy Here Comes the Boom. Despite a critical response, she reprised her role in Grown Ups 2 (2013), which was also a commercial success.

In The Prophet (2014), Hayek played a producer and gave her voice for the character of Kamila, a widowed mother, based on Kahlil Gibran's 1923 book. Hayek said the film made her "love letter to my roots" and that "now we know all the ancestors and the memories of the ones who are no longer with us," she said. She made a brief appearance in James Bobin's comedy sequel Muppets Most Wanted, starred a woman forced into sexual slavery in Joe Lynch's action drama Everly, and reunited with Pierce Brosnam to play his love interest in Tom Vaughan's romantic comedy Some Kind of Beautiful. Both Everly and Some Kind of Beautiful were widely distributed in online markets and poorly received; observers noted that the former "benefits from Joe Lynch's artistic direction and Salma Hayek's acting roles, but not sufficiently detailed and sleazily violent to fully recommend," Rotten Tomatoes gave the former a 6% rating out of 34 reviews.

Hayek appeared in Tale of Tales (2015), a European fantasy film directed and written by Matteo Garrone, as the 17th-century Queen of Longtrellis. At the 68th Cannes Film Festival, a screen adaptation based on stories from Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile appeared. Teresa del Taco's role in Sausage Party, an adult animated film in which she described as "the naughtiest thing I've ever done," Hayek said in 2016. I never thought I'd ever say those things out loud. But, I had a lot of fun [it's a different kind of crazy]. Sausage Party, the most well-grood animated film of all time, earned $140.4 million worldwide.

In Miguel Arteta's drama Beatriz at Dinner, a devoted yet gracefully deft squirmfest with a luminous appearance, Hayek played a holistic medicine practitioner at a wealthy client's dinner party, which Owen Gleiberman of Variety called a "small-scale but elegantly deft squirmfest that features a luminous appearance." Hayek received an Independent Spirit Film Award nomination for Best Female Lead for his work in Hayek. On its debut, How to Be a Latin Lover (2017) was a sleeper hit, with Hayek as the ostensibly sister of a man who has spent his whole career seducing wealthy older women. Patrick Hughes' last film out of 2017 was The Hitman's Bodyguard, in which she appeared as the wife of a convicted killer, opposite Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson. Around the world, the film earned an impressive $176.6 million.

In Kim Nguyen's tech thriller The Hummingbird Project (2018), Eva Torres, a high-frequency trading professional, was portrayed alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsghrd, and Nancy Teagarten, one half of a couple facing a string of financial difficulties with Alec Baldwin (2019). Hayek appeared in Miguel Arteta's comedy Like a Boss, with Rose Byrne and Tiffany Haddish, as well as the alternative husband of a man in Sally Potter's drama The Roads Not Taken, starring Javier Bardem and Elle Fanning, as the makeup mogul.

On Amazon Prime Video, the drama Bliss (2021), starring Hayek as a homeless woman befriending a newly divorced man (Owen Wilson), was released. In Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, the sequel to the 2017 film The Hitman's Bodyguard, she and director Patrick Hughes and actor Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson, the sequel to the hitman's Wife's Bodyguard, which was released on June 16, 2021, to mediocre reviews. In the small but scene-stealing role she played in the first film, John Defore of The Hollywood Reporter praised Hayek's "foulmouthed" portrayal, writing: "The film does a good job" to advertise Salma Hayek as the eponymous spouse of Samuel L. Jackson's hitman, "the one smart thing the film does is highlight Salma Hayek." [...] At least we can appreciate Hayek's enthusiasm for the over-the-top role." Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard had poor box office returns in comparison to the first film.

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals, directed by Chloé Zhao, Hayek portrayed Ajak, the titular group's wise and spiritual leader, who "personally selected" her for the role. Hayek, who was initially captivated by Marvel's attention toward her casting, described her role as "empowering" and recalled feeling "emotional" after learning that for a Mexican woman in her 50s, she was able to be a superhero." I felt a great deal of pride in wearing my superhero costume on. It meant something" in this case. The film, which was released in the United States on November 5, 2021, received a mixed critical reaction and earned $401 million worldwide, making it the tenth highest-grossing film of 2021. She has since agreed to appear in numerous Marvel Cinematic Universe films. Ridley Scott's last film of 2021 was Ridley Scott's biographical crime drama House of Gucci, in which she played the comrade and confidante of Patrizia Reggiani, Adam Driver, and her Lonely Hearts co-star Jared Leto.

Hayek was cast in Angelina Jolie's forthcoming film, Without Blood, based on Alessandro Baricco's best-selling Italian novel. Hayek will appear in the film along with Demián Bichi, who is currently shooting in Rome and southern Italy.

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