Salma Hayek - From Strippers to tThe Queen

Salma Hayek - From Strippers to The Queen

Hollywood star with Mexican roots celebrates on this occasion recalls her most vivid role, which brought fame and love all over the world.

Salma Hayek - From strippers to the Queen

September 2 marks the 50th anniversary of Salma Hayek  - a great actress and luxurious woman and an ambitious personality. The aspiring actress born and raised in a poor family does not: her mother was an opera singer, and his father - the manager of the oil company. As told Hayek, she was a spoiled child: parents rarely called her by name, often a princess. 

At 23, Salma Hayek got her first leading role in the Mexican soap opera "Teresa" that made her a movie star on a national scale.

However, this ambitious beauty was not enough, and she went to conquer Hollywood. In 1991, Hayek moved to Los Angeles to take English classes (at the time he was a movie star in the future is not great due to dyslexia) and acting.

The work, which brought her the first wave of global popularity, Hayek received from Robert Rodriguez : in 1994 she starred in his TV series " Racers " and a year later - in " Desperado ". The role of the beloved main character (played by  Antonio Banderas ) has made ​​it a sort of "Latin American Barbie." Subsequently, the actress had to reject more than one proposal for the filming - to gain a foothold in the role of brainless beauty was not in her plans.

Soon, however, Salma had the last chance to show their teeth, not only in the figurative sense. In 1996, screens out thriller " From Dusk Till Dawn ", where she played a vampire-stripper Esmeralda, under the stage name Santanico Pandemonium performing his trademark dance with a snake. By the way, say that the entire dance number - pure improvisation of the actress.

Creative Alliance actress and director will live for many years - Hayek will return to his own image of the "Desperate" to continue painting " Once in Mexico ." There are sequels, and "From Dusk Till Dawn." In addition, Rodriguez will remove Salma in the third film of the franchise, " Spy Kids ," and that, while remaining faithful to open it to Hollywood director, refused to appear in " The Mask of Zorro " after the director's chair takes Martin Campbell .

However, not a single Rodriguez: her work in such films as " Wild Wild West " and " Dogma ", also had success.By the way, in "Dogma" Hayek again played outspoken performer dances. 

The really important for Hayek's career began in 2002 - on the screens out the biopic " Frida ", where she not only starred but also acted as producer. In an interview with the actress repeatedly he stressed that not only admires the great personality of the artist, but also fully identifies himself with it. Therefore, when the tape was nominated for "Oscar" for Best Actress (Hayek, by the way, was the second in the history of the Latin American actress who has got shortlisted for an Academy Award - the first was Fernanda Montenegro ), Salma decided if he wins send statuette in Kahlo Museum. And when the "Oscar" went to Nicole Kidman  (for her role in " Clock"), does not upset:

There, and so There is Something to See.

By the way, the experience of the producer for Hayek was not the first - Ventanarosa own production company she founded two years earlier, in 2000. Now Salma Hayek - not only in demand actress (including her latest work, for example - the head of the drug cartel Elena in " particularly dangerous " and the Queen in " A Tale of Terror "), but also a successful businesswoman, an activist in the struggle for the rights of women actresses Hollywood.

As keeps repeating actress interview in the interview, she was perfectly happy, and even if she never offered any role, it does not spoil her life, the main place in which occupy the family, beloved husband, billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault, and adored the eight-year daughter Valentina Paloma.