Salma Hayek Biography, Pictures and Videos

Brief Intro: Salma was a previous soap opera star in Mexico. She was named as one of the Best-Dressed Celebrities by America's People magazine. (September 15, 2003).

Family and Younger Days: Salma is a daughter of a Lebanese father and a Spanish mother, Hayek was raised in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. Indomitable to spot that her grandchild expand into a ravishing beauty, her grandmother regularly shaved Salma's head and clipped her eyebrows, in the certainty that such treatments would add corpse and sheen to her granddaughter's thick dark mane. Evenly determined to see that she became cultured, Hayek's resolutely Catholic parents shipped her off to a boarding school in Louisiana when she was 12. While the fascinating youngster proved both considerately serious and properly spiritual, she also displayed a bent for trouble that she mainly directed against the accommodating nuns who ran the school: along with other infamies, she formerly slipped into the knack dormitory and place all of the alarm clocks rear three hours. The consequence of she-nun-gins was that Hayek wrecked up balanced and carted back dwelling behind just two years. It merely took her two further years to come to an end high school, and her mother, fearful of the effects ''college boys'' might have on her vulnerable young daughter, sent Hayek to Houston where she lived with her aunt until she arrive at the age of 17. Salma has initiate a new man after splitting from Edward Norton, in the silhouette of actor Josh Lucas -- The pair has been seen vigorous in Hollywood in current weeks, and friends are encouraged they're situate to become Tinsel town’s next big duo.

Hollywood Career: Salma Hayek entered in Hollywood as an implicit mysterious and had to battle for years to see her trance come to life. She was frightened after hitting into the niece of the real-life temperament she plays in innovative movie FRIDA and yet more distressed to find the virtual loved her role. (February 22, 2003). FRIDA, the Hollywood film regarding the bohemian cult painter Frida Kahlo starring Mexican heartthrob and earlier soap celebrity Salma Hayek in the title position, got a large thumbs up on its introduction in her Mexican homeland, while the truth it was in English rumpled some autonomists.