Salma Hayek Pinault (born September 2, 1966 as Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez) is a Mexican-American actress and film producer. She started her acting career in Mexico, appearing in the serial Teresa in 1989 and the 1995 film El Callejón de Los Milagros (Miracle Alley), for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award. Desperado (1995), From Dusk until Dawn (1996), Wild Wild West, and Dogma were among her early cinematic roles (both 1999).
Hayek got a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for guest-starring in the ABC television comedy-drama Ugly Betty in 2007. She won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special for The Maldonado Miracle in 2004.
From 2009 until 2013, she also appeared as a guest star on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. For her performance in Beatriz at Dinner, she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination in 2017.
Grown Ups (2010), Puss in Boots (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), Tale of Tales (2015), Sausage Party (2016), The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017), Like a Boss (2020), and Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2020) are only a few of Hayek's later projects (2021). Hayek has been married to François-Henri Pinault, a French business billionaire, since 2009 and has a daughter with him.
Salma Hayek Jiménez is a Mexican actress who was born in the town of Coatzacoalcos in the state of Veracruz. Sami Hayek Dominguez, Salma's father, is a Lebanese Mexican with origins from Baabdat, Lebanon, a place Salma and her father visited in 2015 to promote her film The Prophet, directed by Kahlil Gibran. He is the owner of an industrial equipment business and a Mexican oil industry executive who ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos once.
Frida is a 2002 American biographical drama film directed by Julie Taymor about the surrealist Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's professional and domestic life. The film, which starred Salma Hayek in an Academy Award-nominated performance as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera, was adapted from Hayden Herrera's 1983 book Frida.
A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas, Antonio Banderas, and Edward Norton unofficially. Frida earned mostly excellent reviews from critics and was nominated for six Academy Awards, winning two for Best Makeup and Best Original Score.
Biopic of the bold and controversial life of artist Frida Kahlo. Set in Mexico City, this visually evocative film traces her lifelong, tempestuous relationship with her mentor, along with her illicit affairs with Trotsky and various women.
Robert Rodriguez directed and Quentin Tarantino wrote From Dusk Till Dawn, a 1996 American action horror thriller. The film stars Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, and Juliette Lewis and depicts a pair of American criminal brothers (Clooney and Tarantino) who kidnap a family (Keitel, Liu, and Lewis) in order to sneak into Mexico but end themselves imprisoned in a vampire-infested bar.
On January 17, 1996, the picture was released to mixed reviews from reviewers, who regarded it as well-made but unnecessarily violent. From Dusk until Dawn became a cult film after its box office success, and it inspired a media franchise comprising sequel films, a video game, and other media adaptations.
The Gecko brothers are on the run from the Texas police and the FBI after a crime spree through the Southwest. Soon, they find themselves drawn into a battle with a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
Robert Rodriguez wrote, produced, and directed Desperado, a 1995 American neo-western action film. Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy continues with this film. El Mariachi, played by Antonio Banderas, seeks vengeance on the drug lord who murdered his sweetheart. At the 1995 Cannes Picture Festival, the film was presented outside of competition. In the United States, Desperado made $25.4 million. Salma Hayek's breakthrough role was in this film.
El Mariachi, a musician by profession, sets out with a guitar case full of guns to avenge his lover's death and the maiming of his hand. He travels from one town to another in search of Bucho.
Grown Ups is a 2010 American comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and written by Adam Sandler and Fred Wolf. Produced by Jack Giarraputo, it stars Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Salma Hayek, Maria Bello, and Maya Rudolph.
The movie follows five lifelong friends who won their middle school basketball championship in 1978 and meet three decades later for a 4th of July weekend after learning of their basketball coach's tragic death.
Grown Ups was released by Columbia Pictures and produced by Sandler's production firm Happy Madison Productions. In the 1990–1991 season, Sandler, Rock, Schneider, and Spade all joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, as did supporting cast members Colin Quinn, Rudolph, Tim Meadows, and Norm Macdonald.
Five childhood friends take their families for a weekend trip to a lake house in their hometown, where they reunite to attend the funeral of their former high school basketball coach.
In (1997), New York City architect Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is sent to Las Vegas to oversee the building of a nightclub that his company has been commissioned to build.
Alex is a stiff-upper-lipped WASP who meets Isabel Fuentes (Salma Hayek), a free-spirited Mexican-American photojournalist while investigating prospective menu items for the new nightclub. Alex and Isabel fall in love at first sight and spend the night together. However, their desire fades in the cold light of day, and they don't see one another for another three months.
When they do meet again, it will be because Isabel has some exciting news for Alex: she is expecting his kid. Isabel decides to keep the kid and raise it. Knowing that being a single mother would disappoint her family, she invites Alex to a dinner party in the hopes that when her family inquires about her baby's father, she will be able to explain that they met him once.
Alex agrees, and despite certain cultural differences, he is drawn to Isabel's personality and artwork. After the party, Isabel is ready to bid her goodbyes, but Alex urges that they pursue a serious relationship.
He proposes and they marry quickly (with an Elvis impersonator as a witness), but after Isabel meets Alex's mother and Alex is confronted by Isabel's father, both begin to wonder if "doing the right thing" was just that, especially as Alex juggles his New York career with Isabel's desire to stay in Nevada.
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard is a 2021 American action comedy film directed by Patrick Hughes and written by Tom O'Connor and Brandon and Phillip Murphy. Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, and Richard E. Grant reprise their roles in the sequel to the 2017 film The Hitman's Bodyguard, with Frank Grillo, Tom Hopper, Antonio Banderas, and Morgan Freeman joining the ensemble.
In the film, suspended bodyguard Michael Bryce (Reynolds) must reunite with hitman Darius Kincaid (Jackson) and his wife (Hayek) to prevent a maniac (Banderas) from carrying out a terror attack on Europe.
The Eternals is a 2021 American epic superhero film based on the same-named Marvel Comics race. It is the 26th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, produced by Marvel Studios and released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (MCU).
Chloé Zhao directed the film, which she co-wrote with Patrick Burleigh, Ryan Firpo, and Kaz Firpo. Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Harish Patel, Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, and Angelina Jolie are among the ensemble cast members.
After thousands of years in hiding, the Eternals, an immortal extraterrestrial species, emerge to defend Earth from their evil counterparts, the Deviants, in the film. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige stated in April 2018 that a film based on the Eternals was in the works, with Ryan and Kaz Firpo engaged to write the screenplay in May.
Zhao was scheduled to helm the picture by late September, and he was granted a lot of creative leeway, resulting in more on-location shooting than past MCU films. Burleigh was subsequently believed to have contributed to the script, which Zhao rewrote. From July 2019 until February 2020, principal shooting took place at Pinewood Studios, as well as on location in London and Oxford, England, and the Canary Islands.
The Eternals, a race of immortal beings with superhuman powers who have secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years, reunite to battle the evil Deviants.
Mike Cahill wrote and directed Bliss, a 2021 American drama film. Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek feature in the film. When a middle-aged guy, recently divorced and distant, gets dismissed from an unsatisfactory job, he has a mental breakdown.
He eventually goes further into what looks to be heroin addiction after being befriended by a homeless lady. He has trouble distinguishing between fact and fiction. The spectator is forced to wonder if he is trapped in a layer-upon-layer simulation or is suffering from drug-induced madness.
Wilson's character is first shown as an overworked divorced dreamer who is lost and bewildered while maintaining a poor connection with his older children. The film then transitions into an intensely frantic psychological tale in which the audience is sucked in with the protagonists and is left to discern what is "real" and what is a synthetic reality. It was launched on Amazon Prime Video on February 5, 2021, and garnered largely negative reviews from critics.
An unfulfilled man and a mysterious woman believe they are living in a simulated reality, but when their newfound "Bliss" world begins to bleed into the "ugly" world, they must decide what's real and where they truly belong.
Ridley Scott's planned epic historical crime drama film House of Gucci is based on Sara Gay Forden's 2001 book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed. Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek, and Al Pacino feature in the film.
Filming for the House of Gucci took place in several locations in Italy from February to May 2021. It will have its international debut at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, and United Artists Releasing will distribute it in the United States on November 24, 2021.
When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge -- and ultimately murder.
For her part in Beatriz at Dinner, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2017. Grown Ups (2010), Puss in Boots (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), Tale of Tales (2015), Sausage Party (2016), The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017), Like a Boss (2020), and Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2020) are among Hayek's later projects (2021).
She rose to prominence with appearances in films such as Desperado (1995), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Wild Wild West, and Dogma (both 1999).
According to People, Hayek spotted an ad and bought the owl for Pinault as a Valentine's Day present. The actress owns a variety of pets, including dogs, horses, alpacas, rabbits, and chickens, in addition to Kering. Hayek runs an animal sanctuary, and the majority of her creatures are rescues, including ones she rescued on the streets.
Hayek told People that she saw an ad and got the owl as a Valentine's Day gift for Pinault. In addition to Kering, the actress has several pets, including, dogs, horses, alpacas, bunnies, and chickens.
Elisa Mueller, a Kansas City native, grew up surrounded by the wonders of books and movies, inspired by her parents' passion for education and film.
She earned bachelor's degrees in English and Journalism from the University of Kansas before moving to New York City, where she spent a decade at Entertainment Weekly, visiting film sets worldwide.
With over 8 years in the entertainment industry, Elisa is a seasoned journalist and media analyst, holding a degree in Journalism from NYU. Her insightful critiques have been featured in prestigious publications, cementing her reputation for accuracy and depth.
Outside of work, she enjoys attending film festivals, painting, writing fiction, and studying numerology.
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