Salma Hayek: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966 - some sources quote her birth date as September 2, 1968) is a Mexican actress. After starring in Mexican television shows, she came to Hollywood and spent a few years in bit parts, then made her name in Robert Rodriguez' Desperado.

Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, the daughter of Sami Hayek Dominguez, a businessman of Lebanese descent who once ran for mayor of their city, and Diana Jiménez, an opera singer and talent scout.

Hayek completed work on her own film Frida (an account of the life of Frida Kahlo), in which she played the lead character and was also the producer. She was engaged to colleague Edward Norton. In 1994, Hayek confessed at "The Cristina Show", to having had a short romantic relationship with world boxing champion Julio Cesar Chavez.

It has been pointed out, with tongue in cheek, that her roles in From Dusk Till Dawn and Dogma may have made her the only movie actress to play both a stripper from hell and a stripper from heaven.

Filmography

• (2003)
• Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)
• Frida (2002)
• (2001)
• In The Time Of The Butterflies (2001)
• Traffic (2000)
• Chain Of Fools (2000)
• Time Code (2000)
• Dogma (1999)
• Wild Wild West (1999)
• 54 (1998)
• The Velocity Of Gary (1998)
• The Faculty (1998)
• Fools Rush In (1997)
• The Hunchback (1997)
• Breaking Up (1997)
• Fled (1996)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
• El Callejon De Los Milagros (1995)
• Fair Game (1995)
• Midaq Alley (1995)
• Desperado (1995)
• Roadracers (1994)
• Mi Vida Loca (1993)