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.

Salma’s first 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 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

Salma is fluent in four languages. They are Spanish, English, Portuguese and Arabic. She became the Revlon spokesperson in She was knighted in France by France’s Legion of Honor in January of 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!

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 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: