La Gran Vida (Living it Up) Lola Spanish-languageĬhain Of Fools Sgt. The Velocity of Gary Mary Carmen Producer direct-to-video release.Įl Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel) Julia Producer Spanish-language. Year Title Role Other credits and/or notesġ995 El Callejón de los Milagros (Midaq Alley) Alma Spanish-languageġ996 From Dusk Till Dawn Santanico Pandemoniumīreaking Up Monica Direct-to-video release. In 2003, she reprised her role from Desperado by appearing in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the final film of the Mariachi Trilogy. In 2000, Hayek had an uncredited acting part opposite Benicio del Toro in Traffic. In 1999, she co-starred in Will Smith's big-budget Wild Wild West, and played a supporting role in Kevin Smith's Dogma. She followed her success in Desperado with a brief but memorable role as a vampire queen in From Dusk Till Dawn, where she provocatively danced on a table. Hayek had a starring part opposite Matthew Perry in the romantic comedy Fools Rush In. She has also appeared in the Spy Kids trilogy. Due to Hayek's loyalty to the director, she would later decline playing the role Catherine Zeta-Jones eventually took in The Mask of Zorro after Rodriguez abandoned the project.
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The movie caught Hollywood's attention, as moviegoers proved to be dazzled by Hayek as Rodriguez had been. Robert Rodriguez and his producer wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave Hayek the break she needed, a starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Desperado. Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991 to study acting under Stella Adler, hoping for a career in Hollywood, despite limited fluency in English, attributed to her suffering from dyslexia. For her performance, Hayek was nominated for an Ariel Award.īikini-clad Salma Hayek, as Santanico Pandemonium, performs an erotic dance with a snake in this promotional still for From Dusk Till Dawn. In 1994, Hayek starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), which has won more awards than any other movie in the history of Mexican cinema. In December 2008, Entertainment Weekly ranked Hayek number 17 in their list of the "25 Smartest People in TV."Īt the age of 23, Hayek landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful Mexican telenovela that made her a star in Mexico. population would use the term 'sexy' to describe her". That same month, a poll found Hayek to be the "sexiest celebrity" out of a field of 3,000 celebrities (male and female) according to the poll, "65 percent of the U.S. In July 2007, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Hayek fourth in their inaugural Latino Power 50, a list of the most powerful members of the Hollywood Latino community. She is also, after Fernanda Montenegro, the second of three Latin American actresses to achieve a Best Actress Oscar nomination. She is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood, since the legendary Dolores del Rio. Hayek is the first Mexican national to be nominated for a Academy Award for Best Actress. Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants. Hayek has appeared in more than 30 films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain.
Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican-Lebanese and American actress, director, television and film producer.