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Meet The Mother Of Mexican Actress, Salma Heyek

Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez was born on September 2nd 1966 in Coatzacoalcus, Veracruz in Mexico. She was born to Sami Hayek Domínguez who was a Lebanese descent and Diana Jiménez Medina who was an opera singer and a talent scout and also a Spanish descent. Salma shares the same parent with her brother Sami Hayek.

Early Life

Salma and her father visited Baabdat, Lebanon, in 2015 to promote their film Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. Baabdat is where Salma’s father’s ancestors originally came from. He previously ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos and is an executive for an oil company in Mexico. He also runs an industrial equipment company. In a 2015 interview with Un Nuevo Da while visiting Madrid, Hayek stated that her grandmother and maternal great-grandparents were from Spain and that she was fifty percent Lebanese and fifty percent Spanish. Sami, her younger brother, creates furniture.

Hayek, who came from a wealthy, devoutly Catholic family, chose to enroll in the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, when she was 12 years old. She was given a dyslexia diagnosis at school. She studied international relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana where she attended college. Hayek revealed, though not for a long time, that she formerly lived in the country illegally in an interview with V magazine from 2011.

Career In Mexico And Hollywood

In 1988, Hayek made her debut on television’s Un Nuevo Amanecer, for which she won the TVyNovelas Award for Best Debut Actress. Hayek was then chosen by Televisa to portray the titular character in Teresa (1989–1991), a popular Mexican drama that catapulted her to stardom in her own country. Hayek was 23 at the time. She won the 1990 TVyNovelas Award for Best Female Revelation for the two-year, 125-episode series. Following the release of Teresa in 1991, Hayek relocated to Los Angeles with the intention of pursuing a career in movies. She quickly enrolled in English lessons and Stella Adler’s acting classes despite her weak English fluency and dyslexia. After relocating to the United States, Hayek initially experienced difficulty finding acting roles; and once, it was even said that her accent would “cause audiences to think of housekeepers.” During this time, she was cast in supporting roles in the made-for-Showtime thriller Roadracers (1994), her first project with director Robert Rodriguez, as well as guest roles in the television series Dream On (1992) and The Sinbad Show (1993). She also appeared in guest roles in the dramas Mi Vida Loca (1993) and The Sinbad Show (1993).

Hayek starred as Alma in Jorge Fons’ drama El Callejón de Los Milagros (Miracle Alley), a 1994 adaptation of Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz’s 1940 novel of the same name that was translated from Cairo to Mexico City. Alma is a young, impoverished lady who becomes a sex worker. The movie received positive reviews, apparently won more prizes than any other film in Mexican cinema history, and had Salma Hayek nominated for the Ariel Award for Best Actress.

Hayek became the first Mexican actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and also received nominations for a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award for her portrayal of artist Frida Kahlo in the biographical film Frida (2002), which she also produced. Hayek concentrated more on producing in the years that followed while appearing in action films like Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003), After the Sunset (2004), and Bandidas (2006). She enjoyed more financial success with the comedy Grown Ups (2010), Grown Ups 2 (2013), and The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017); she also provided the voice of Puss in Boots (2011) and The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011). She won praise for her performances in the dramas Sausage Party (2016), Tale of Tales (2015), Beatriz at Dinner (2017), and House of Gucci (2021). Her highest-grossing live-action picture, Eternals (2021), in which she portrayed Ajak, was part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Hayek has had four Emmy Award nominations for her television acting, directing, and producing efforts. She was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards—one for Outstanding Comedy Series and the other for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series—for her work on the ABC television comedy-drama Ugly Betty. She won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children’s Special for The Maldonado Miracle (2004). (2006–10). She also produced the 2001 Showtime movie In the Time of the Butterflies, in which she portrayed Minerva Mirabal, and she made a guest appearance on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock (2009–2013).

About Salma Hayek’s mother

Salma Hayek’s mother, Diana Jiménez Medina was an opera singer and a talent scout. She is also a Spanish descent. She was blessed with two children, Salma and her brother Sami Hayek Jr. She has a net worth estimated to be around $1.2 million dollars.

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