Determination, courage and style have been the keys to amazing cross-border stardom for a “Mexican goddess.” Salma Hayek, over parental protests, began her acting career in local theatre, bewitching a young audience as the female lead in Aladina y la Lampara Maravillosa (Aladdin and His Marvellous Lamp). She went on to commercial work, then joined the cast of popular daytime TV serial Nuevo Amanecer (New Dawn) in 1988. It was her second soap opera role, in Teresa, that shot the twenty-year-old to instant sensational popularity in Mexico.
This beauty was born and raised in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Her religious parents -- father of Lebanese descent, mother of Spanish descent -- wanted to ensure that their daughter would be well-educated, and sent her a Louisiana boarding school when she was 12. Sent back home for being a prankster in boarding school, Hayek finished high school and was sent to Houston to live with her aunt until the age of 17.
Hayek moved to Los Angeles in 1991, a complete unknown in a city full of aspiring actors. Foreign to the English language, Hayek spent the next 18 months taking English lessons, while perfecting her acting skills with a drama teacher. Although Hayek spent four months auditioning for a leading role that finally went to another actress, the director, impressed by her determination, cast her in a smaller role in the film so that she could become a member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Along with the public acclaim, she received Premio TV y Novela (Emmy equivalent) and Heraldo awards for Best Actress and Best Newcomer. She continued to do theatre work, with 1990's Las Visitas Tienen Suerio, but after three years on a pedestal as a celebrated soap queen, she left for the bright lights of Hollywood. Hayek spent 1991 as a “nobody” learning the ropes in her new country -- taking English lessons, acting lessons and driving lessons. In 1992/93 the newcomer appeared on the American television shows, Nurses, Dream On, and The Sinbad Show.
Also in 1993 she was cast in the movie, Mi Vida Loca (My Crazy Life). That role led to Roadracers (TV - 1994) and Midaq Alley (1995). Her breakthrough came that year with a lead role in the mainstream feature film Desperado. Her U.S./Mexican movie career continued with Four Rooms (1995), Fair Game (1995), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), El Jorabadode Notre Dame (voice - 1996), and Fled (1996). Hayek was lauded as one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People in 1996, and, that year, received an Ariel (Mexican Academy Award) nomination for her Midaq Alley role. She went on to The Hunchback (TV - 1997), Fools Rush In (1997), Follow Me Home (1997), Quien Diablos Es Juliette? (1997), and Sistole Diastole (1997).
Hayek's film repertoire only continued to expand,
with a role as a coke-sniffing dancer in 54, a tribute to the popular
70's nightclub. She also starred opposite Kevin Kline and Will Smith in
last summer's big budget disappointment Wild Wild West.; the controversial
Dogma, co-starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck; and she will soon be seen
in The Velocity of Gary, as well as Frida, the biography of painter Frida
Kahlo.
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