![]() ![]() Hayek was an executive producer of Ugly Betty, a television series that aired around the world from 2006 to 2010. In December 2005, she directed a music video for Prince, titled " Te Amo Corazon" ("I love you, sweetheart") that featured Mía Maestro. In 2003, Hayek produced and directed The Maldonado Miracle, a Showtime movie based on the book of the same name, winning her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special. ![]() In the movie, Salma Hayek plays one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays the Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo whom the sisters opposed. In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name, covering the lives of the Mirabal sisters. She earned a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her performance. ![]() ![]() Starring Hayek as Frida Kahlo, and Alfred Molina as her unfaithful husband, Diego Rivera, the film was directed by Julie Taymor and featured an entourage of stars in supporting and minor roles ( Valeria Golino, Ashley Judd, Edward Norton, Geoffrey Rush) and cameos ( Antonio Banderas). įrida, co-produced by Hayek, was released in 2002. Her first feature as a producer was 1999's El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, Mexico's official selection for submission for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars. Hayek and Banderas at the Puss in Boots premiere in Australia.Īround 2000, Hayek founded film production company Ventanarosa, through which she produces film and television projects. 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. Hayek had a starring part opposite Matthew Perry in the 1997 romantic comedy Fools Rush In. She followed her role in Desperado with a brief role as a vampire queen in From Dusk Till Dawn, in which she performed a table-top snake dance. Robert Rodriguez and his producer and then wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave Hayek a starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Desperado. She had limited fluency in English, which was attributed to her suffering from dyslexia. Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991 to study acting under Stella Adler. For her performance, Hayek was nominated for an Ariel Award. 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. Career Mexico Īt the age of 23, Hayek landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful Mexican telenovela that made her a star in Mexico. She attended college in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana. While there, she was diagnosed with dyslexia. Raised in a wealthy, devoutly Roman Catholic family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, at the age of twelve. Her first given name, Salma, is Arabic for "safe". Hayek's father is of Lebanese ancestry, while her mother's ancestry is Spanish. Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, the daughter of Diana Jiménez Medina, an opera singer and talent scout, and Sami Hayek Dominguez, an oil company executive who once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos. ![]()
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