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Salma Hayek Mini Biography

Salma Hayek Jimenez is a Mexican American film actress, director and producer. She began her career in Mexico starring in the telenovela Teresa and went on to star in the film El Callejón de los Milagros ..

Born: September 2, 1966, Coatzacoalcos, Mexico

Height: 1.57 m

Spouse: François-Henri Pinault (m. 2009)

Nationality: Mexican, American

Children: Valentina Paloma Pinault

Early life

Hayek was born Salma Hayek Jimenez in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. She is the daughter of Diana Jimenez Medina, an opera singer and talent scout, and Sami Hayek Dominguez, an oil company executive who once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos. Hayek's paternal grandfather emigrated from Lebanon while her mother is of Spanish descent. Her first given name, Salma, is Arabic for "safe". Raised in a wealthy, devoutly Roman Catholic family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, at the age of twelve While there, she was diagnosed with dyslexia. She attended university in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana

Personal life

Salma Hayek and François-Henri Pinault in 2012 at the Deauville American Film Festival.

Hayek is a naturalized United States citizen. She studied at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, and is a practitioner of yoga. Hayek who was raised Catholic said she is not very devout anymore and does not believe in the institution but still believes in Jesus Christ and God.

On March 9, 2007, Hayek confirmed her engagement to French billionaire and PPR CEO François-Henri Pinault as well as her pregnancy. On September 21, 2007, she gave birth to daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. On July 18, 2008, Hayek and Pinault announced the end of their engagement. They later reconciled and were married on Valentine's Day, 2009 in Paris. On April 25, 2009, they were married a second time in Venice.

In July 2011, Hayek's husband was named in a paternity case. According to reports, Pinault is the father of supermodel Linda Evangelista's four-year-old son, Augustin James. He denied all allegations, although the reports were later substantiated

Honors and awards

Recipient of Glamour magazine Woman of the Year Award in October 2001.

Recipient of Producers Guild of America Celebration of Diversity Award in 2003.

Recipient of Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year Award in February 2006.

Recipient of Time magazine 25 Most Influential Hispanics in 2005.

Knight (Chevalier) of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (France, December 30, 2011)

In July 2007, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Hayek fourth in their inaugural Latino Power 50, a list of the most powerful members of the Hollywood Latino community. That same month, a poll found Hayek to be the "hottest celebrity" out of a field of 3,000 celebrities (male and female); according to the poll, "65 percent of the U.S. population would use the term 's**y' to describe her". In 2008, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television In December of that year, Entertainment Weekly ranked Hayek number 17 in their list of the "25 Smartest People in TV.