Hollywood actress Salma Hayek's Biography

Salma Hayek-Jimenez is the full name of the Mexican diva. To cut the long story short, we could say - she is a truely emotional scene of faery. Expressively featured face, black hair, wonderful body and the incredible Latino tamper, that could make any real man melt. The warm-blooded beauty sees the daylight on September 2nd, 1966 and is raised in: Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Her parents are strictly religious. They decide to give her daughter a decent education and enrol her in a Louisiana boarding school. However, she is sent back home for her unruly behaviour. After graduating from high school, Salma is sent to live in Houston with her aunt. In Mexico City, the young and appealing Salma decides that the crucial moment has come for her to quit everything and take the plunge into pursuing her sheltered dream to become an actress.  In 1991 she settles in Los Angeles. The city is foreign, and the language was unfamiliar. This motivates her to spend the following 18 months taking English lessons, while perfecting her acting skills with drama teacher Stella Adler. Traditionally, she has to wait for months in order to get a leading role. In 1993 she performs a tiny role for: Mi vida loca, a.k.a My Crazy Life. Her consistence and temerity produce rewarding results some time later when she gets the leading role in the blockbuster Desperado, partnering the magnetic Antonio Banderas. In 1996 she appears in From Dusk Till Dawn with George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino, playing the role of the demons' queen. In 1997's Fools Rush In she partners the Friends' comic star Matthew Perry. The same year Salma manages to enchant audiences with the role of Esmeralda in a TNT rendition of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Gradually, the acting repertoire of Salma enlarges: she plays a dancer addict in 54, based on the rise and fall of the popular '70s nightclub. The Faculty (also a Robert Rodriguez film) comes in 1998, and in the following year she co-stars the tandem: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in the controversial Dogma. The same year she features in the crazy western Wild Wild West in concert with Will Smith. 2000 is a year fraught with engagements. She takes part in: Timecode, Chain of Fools, as well as in the Oscar-winning Traffic. A year later Salma appears in Time of the Butterflies, while working hard over her inspiring project: Frida. A biopic of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, the movie is released in 2002, featuring Salma in the title role, and is also co-produced by Hayek. Тhis role brings her nominations for Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards. After all, she wins: Best Actress trophies at the Imagen Foundation Awards and the Golden Camera (Best International Actress). In 2003 she appears in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, as well as in the follow-up to the unmatched Desperado, called: Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Personally, she lives through a 4-tear-romance with actor Edward Norton, partnering her in Frida. Her ex-boyfriend list also incorporates: Richard Crenna, Jr. Presently, Salma dates Josh Lucas (from The Hulk). 2004 brings her another project, dubbed: After the Sunset - an animation, where she gives life to Sian Ka'an through her velvet voice. She makes another movie appearance, as well, co-starring Colin Farrell and Val Kilmer. The movie release is scheduled for 2005 and is called: Ask the Dust.