Widely considered to be the first Mexican actress to become a Hollywood movie star since Dolores Del Rio, Salma Hayek is known for bringing a fiery presence and striking, dark-eyed beauty to the screen. A soap star in her native Mexico, Hayek risked her entire career to come to L.A., where she struggled to be taken seriously. Her discovery by director Robert Rodriguez, who cast her in his 1995 film Desperado, gave Hayek her breakthrough, and she subsequently gained a reputation as one of Hollywood's sexiest and busiest actresses.
The daughter of a Spanish mother and Lebanese father, Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, on September 2, 1966. Raised in a devoutly Catholic family, she was sent to a Louisiana boarding school at the age of 12. After getting into trouble for terrorizing the nuns, Hayek returned to Mexico, but she was eventually sent to Houston, Texas, to live with her aunt, where she stayed until she was 17. She subsequently moved to Mexico City, where she studied International Relations as a university student, but, to the chagrin of her family, decided to drop out in order to pursue a career as an actress. Starting out in local theatre productions, she eventually moved to television and landed a starring role in the popular soap opera Teresa. The show's success made Hayek a celebrity in her native country, but, desiring something more, she shocked her fans by deciding to quit the show in order to pursue a career in L.A.
After taking a year to learn English and study acting with Stella Adler, Hayek got her first break when Allison Anders cast her in a supporting role in Mi Vida Loca (1993). The role allowed Hayek to obtain a Screen Actors Guild card, and after doing so, she continued to audition until she appeared on a Spanish-language cable access talk show that happened to count director Robert Rodriguez amongst its viewers. Rodriguez tracked Hayek down and promptly cast her in Desperado, his bigger-budget 1995 sequel to El Mariachi. The film, which also starred Antonio Banderas, succeeded in giving the actress her own plot on the Hollywood map, and Rodriguez again demonstrated his faith in her when he cast her in his next project, the vampire extravaganza From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).
Unfortunately for Hayek, the film, which also starred George Clooney, failed to do as well as expected, and Hayek's next few projects were similarly lackluster. The Faculty (1998), a teen thriller that cast Hayek as a teacher who turns into an alien, was an exception, and Kevin Smith's Dogma (1999), which featured her as a celestial muse, was fairly successful with critics and audiences. Also in 1999, Hayek had a starring role in what was to be her biggest film to date, Barry Sonnenfeld's Wild Wild West, which also starred Will Smith and Kevin Kline. Unfortunately for all involved, the film was a turkey. In 2000, Hayek could be seen in smaller, edgier ventures, including the independent comedy Chain of Fools, in which she played a centerfold-turned- cop, and Mike Figgis' experimental Time Code, which cast her as Jeanne Tripplehorn's lover. If these films ultimately didn't provide Hayek with a role that would draw attention to her genuine talent, this would soon change with the long awaited biography of tragic artist Frida Kahlo. With her role as the epnoymous character in Frida (2002), Hayek disappeared into her subject so convincingly that not only would she return to the good graces of critics, but earn an Oscar nomination as well.
Salma Hayek Movies List -
Year Name
2010 La Banda
2010 Puss in Boots (2011)
2010 Grown Ups (2010)
2009 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2008 El Callejon De Los Milagros (Midaq Alley)
2008 Until the Violence Stops
2007 Lonely Hearts (2007)
2007 Across the Universe
2006 Bandidas
2006 Ask the Dust
2005 Sian Ka'an
2004 After the Sunset
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico: in Digital Projection
2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over: with Open Captions
2003 Hotel (2003)
2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over: in Digital Projection
2002 The Sea (2002)
2002 Forever Hollywood
2002 Frida (2002)
2002 Death to Smoochy
2002 The Maldonado Miracle
2002 Frida: with Open Captions (2002)
2001 The Concert For New York City (2001)
2000 La Gran Vida
2000 Timecode
2000 Chain of Fools
2000 In the Time of the Butterflies
1999 Dogma
1999 The Velocity of Gary
1999 Hispanic Hollywood
1999 El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba
1999 Wild Wild West
1998 54
1998 The Faculty
1997 Fools Rush In (1997)
1997 Breaking Up (1997)
1997 The Hunchback (1997)
1996 Fled
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn
1995 Desperado (1995)
1995 Four Rooms
1995 Fair Game (1995)
1994 Roadracers (1994)
1994 Mi Vida Loca
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