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Salma Hayek
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Executive Producer, Actor
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September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico
Biography:Widely considered to be the first Mexican actress to become a Hollywood movie star since "Dolores Del Rio", "Salma Hayek" is known for bringing a fiery presence and striking, dark-eyed beauty to the screen. A soap star in her native Mexico, Hayek risked her entire career to come to L.A., where she struggled to be taken seriously. Her discovery by director "Robert Rodriguez", who cast her in his 1995 film "Desperado", gave Hayek her breakthrough, and she subsequently gained a reputation as one of Hollywood's sexiest and busiest actresses.

The daughter of a Spanish mother and Lebanese father, Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico, on September 2, 1966. Raised in a devoutly Catholic family, she was sent to a Louisiana boarding school at the age of 12. After getting into trouble for terrorizing the nuns, Hayek returned to Mexico, but she was eventually sent to Houston, Texas, to live with... Full Biography

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