Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez born on September 2, 1966. A Mexican actress,director,and television and film producer Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez is first Mexican national to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.since silent film actress'Dolores del Rio'Salma is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in hollywood.After Fernanda Montenegro,she is the second of three Latin American actresses to achieve a a Best Actress Oscar.
Her charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination.
In 1994,Hayek starred in the film El Callejon de los milagros[Miracle Alley],which has won awards more than any other movie the history of Mexican cinema,Hayek was nominated for an Ariel Award for her perfomance.
In 1991,Hayek moved to Los Angeles(California) to study acting under Stella Adler. She had limited fluency in English, which was attributed to her suffering from dyslexia.Salma got starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Desperado by Robert Rodriguez and his producer wife Elizabeth Avellan. The movie caught Hollywood's attention, as movie goers proved to be dazzled by Hayek as Rodriguez had been.
She followed her success in Desperado with a brief but memorable role as a vampire queen in From Dusk Till Dawn, in which she performed a table-top snake dance.In Will Smith's big-budget Wild Wild West Hayek co-starred in the year1999,and played a supporting role in Kevin Smith's Dogma.The final film of the Mariachi Trilogy,in 2003 she reprised her role from Desperado by appearing in Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
In 2003, Hayek produced and directed the The Maldonado Miracle, a Showtime movie which won her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special.In December 2005, she directed a music video for Prince, titled "Te Amo Corazon" ("I love you, sweetheart") that featured her good friend Mia Maestro.Since September 2006 a television series airing around the world 'Ugly Betty'Hayek is an executive producer.
In April 2007, Hayek finalized negotiations with MGM to become the CEO of her own Latin themed film production company, Ventanarosa.