Their glance and its body burn more than the fire of all the together Mayan Gods. And but that they say it to Antonio Banderas, that he walked “desperado” with this girl of the hand doing to jump by airs all the buildings that left the step.

She is one of the Latin actresses of the moment, with permission of Penélope Cruz, to that by the way admires, and next to Jennifer Lopez, of whom says in challenging tone that she is not true a Latin because she was born in New York “and she does not have accent”. What yes it has Salma Hayek, to part of a fright body, is character. Its life is tutti fruti of nationalities. Of Mexican passport, the grandparents to pater to us are Lebanese and the maternal Spaniards. Of small he went to a boarding school of nuns in Louisiana but they threw it to make gamberradas. Finished the institute, he returned to the United States to live with an aunt of Houston until he turned the 17 years.  Then, when the bikini was put, that in Mexico they had to him prohibited, not only also attracted the glance of its friends but the one of its respective parents.

From return to his country it begins to study international relations and it lets the race hung by halves to fulfill his dream: to be an actress of whom they devastate. After making theater and publicity it obtains to a paper in culebrón “New Dawn”. Its main paper in the soap opera “Teresa” turns it a star of the Mexican television. But when in 1991 it returns to the “promised earth”, this time to work, is with the only recognition of the watchmen of parking of Los Angeles.

His first opportunity is a secondary paper in a film for which it was doing castings during four months, but that in the end were worth to obtain the membership card to him of professional actress. But who the catapult is the director Robert Rodriguez, when matching it with Antonio Banderas in “Desperado”, the second part of the mythical independent tape “the Mariachi”.

Their appearances in “Opened until the dawn”, “Dogma” and “Wild Wild West” have given the name him necessary to play roles that really it has chosen like “Frida”, who tells to the history of the painter Frida Kahlo.

Woman of arms to take, has co-produced this one and other films through her company, “Ventanarosa”, whenever she has fallen in love with a personage who she has wanted to interpret. And reason why to fall in love with the men one talks about, which saw in the actor Edward Norton is talent and something of sense of humor. Thus it likes the men.