Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Jiménez- Pinault Valgarma ( born September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico ) is a Mexican- American actress.
Life
Hayek's father, Sami Hayek, who is Lebanese, he was a politician and a successful manager in the oil business. Your Mexican mother Diana Jiménez was an opera singer. At the age of 12 years Salma left the city Coatzacoalcos in southeastern Mexico and went to a Catholic boarding school in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Hayek had to leave school after they had become conspicuous by bad behavior. She moved to her aunt to Houston and stayed there until she was 17. After leaving school she went back to her home in Mexico City and studied International Relations and Drama.
The study broke but then in favor of acting. After several theater performances she got the lead role in the Mexican telenovela Teresa, which was broadcast in over 20 countries. That you made a breakthrough in her native Mexico, she was a star.
Hayek left the successful TV show for a career in Hollywood. They moved in 1991 with only little knowledge of English to Los Angeles and took acting and elocution lessons. In the early years she was disappointed by the meager supply of substantial roles for Latin American women. In January 1993, she landed a supporting role in the film Mi Vida Loca.
While it was in the early 1990s as a " Lebanese " because was easier for her own words, as " Mexican " attractive film roles in Hollywood to get, it benefits now from the onset in the 1990s "Latin " boom in the United States.
In 1995, she starred opposite Antonio Banderas in the film Desperado, director Robert Rodriguez became aware by chance on it. Rodriguez worked in 1996 and they met again in From Dusk Till Dawn, she played a vampire. In particular, the scene with her snake dance, which is accompanied by music of Tito & Tarantula After Dark title, Hayek made permanently famous.
2003 Hayek was nominated as best actress for her role in the film Frida for both the Oscar and Golden Globe.
With the establishment of their own film production company, she provided a second source of income. You can now give themselves roles and ranks among the top earners in the industry.
Salma Hayek, fluent in Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and English speaking, is mother since September 2007. The girl's father is the French businessman François -Henri Pinault, whom she married on February 14, 2009 in Paris, in a small group after they had been resolved in July 2008, the engagement with him.
At the beginning of 2012, Hayek was charged by the French Government to the rank of Knight of the French Legion of Honour.
Social Commitment
Hayek is committed to charitable purposes. Among other things, it supports the joint initiative of Pampers and UNICEF, which has set itself the goal of Tetanus ( also called lockjaw) vaccination and accompanying measures (such as improved hygiene at birth) to eradicate by 2012.
In a UNICEF visit to a hospital in the West African country of Sierra Leone, where the tetanus mortality is the world's largest, Hayek nursing a baby crying from hunger - whose mother could not feed the child for lack of milk itself. Hayek thus replaces a fierce debate in the United States.
She is the spokesperson for the initiative Speak Out Against Domestic Violence ( "a revolt against domestic violence " ) and has donated more than $ 750,000 for women's shelters in her Mexican hometown Coatzacoalcos and a neighboring town. For the fight against domestic violence, she founded the Salma Hayek Foundation. It demanded, among other things, in a speech before the U.S. Senate in 2005 tougher laws against mistreatment in marriage. Hayek had been forced to watch a young age, like a man on the street beat his wife.
Filmography (selection)
- 2000: Chain of Fools
- 2000: Living It Up - Just one week millionaire (La gran vida )
- 2000: Traffic - power of the cartel ( Traffic )
- 2001: Hotel
- 2001: The Time of the Butterflies (In the Time of the Butterflies, TV film )
- 2002: Frida
- 2003: a Time in Mexico (Once Upon a Time in Mexico)
- 2003: Mission 3D ( Spy Kids 3 -D: Game Over )
- 2004: After the Sunset
- 2006: Bandidas
- 2006: Ask the Dust
- 2006: Lonely Hearts (Lonely Hearts)
- 2007: Across the Universe
- 2009: 30 Rock (TV series, six episodes)
- 2010: Midnight Circus - Welcome to the world of the vampires ( Cirque du Freak: The Vampire 's Assistant )
- 2010: Grown Ups ( Grown Ups )
- 2011: Puss in Boots ( Puss in Boots, Voice )
- 2011: La chispa de la vida
- 2012: The Pirates! - Band of Misfits ( The Pirates In an Adventure with Scientists! )
- 2012: Savages
- 2012: The heavyweight ( Here Comes The Boom)
- 2013: Grown Ups 2 ( Grown Ups 2)
- 2003: The Maldonado Miracle ( TV movie )