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Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek

Birthday: 1966-09-02 | Place of Birth: Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico

Salma Hayek Pinault (born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez; September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress and producer. She began her career in Mexico starring in the telenovela Teresa and starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley) for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award. In 1991, Hayek moved to Hollywood and came to prominence with roles in films such as Desperado (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Wild Wild West, and Dogma (both 1999). Hayek's breakthrough role was in the 2002 film Frida, as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, for which she was nominated for Best Actress for the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, and which she also produced. This movie received widespread attention and was a critical and commercial success. Hayek won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special for The Maldonado Miracle in 2004, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series after guest-starring in the ABC television comedy-drama Ugly Betty in 2007. She also guest-starred on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock from 2009 to 2013. In 2017, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her role in Beatriz at Dinner. Hayek's subsequent films include Grown Ups (2010), Puss in Boots (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), Tale of Tales (2015), Sausage Party (2016), The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017), Like a Boss (2020) and The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Salma Hayek, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
BMW Electric Ad

as    Hera

2021
Eternals

as    Ajak

2021
House of Gucci

as    Giuseppina 'Pina' Auriemma

2021
Bliss

as    Isabel Clemens

2021
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

as    Sonia Kincaid

2020
Like a Boss

as    Claire Luna

2020
The Roads Not Taken

as    Dolores

2019
The Hummingbird Project

as    Eva Torres

2019
Drunk Parents

as    Nancy

2017
Beatriz at Dinner

as    Beatriz

2017
How to Be a Latin Lover

as    Sara

2017
The Hitman's Bodyguard

as    Sonia Kincaid

2016
Septembers of Shiraz

as    Farnez

2015
Some Kind of Beautiful

as    Olivia

2015
Tale of Tales

as    Queen of Longtrellis

2014
Everly

as    Everly

2014
The Prophet

as    Kamila (voice)

2013
Girl Rising

as    Narrator - Peru (voice)

2013
Grown Ups 2

as    Roxanne Chase-Feder

2013
$ellebrity

as    Self

2012
Here Comes the Boom

as    Bella Flores

2012
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

as    Cutlass Liz (voice)

2012
Savages

as    Elena

2012
Savages: The Interrogations

as    Elena

2011
Americano

as    'Lola'

2011
As Luck Would Have It

as    Luisa