Salma Hayek is your Mexican Hollywood actress who has been in the news often for the kind of projects she chooses and performances delivered. Recently she has also taken upon the added task of director and television and film producer. The dusky beauty has also contributed generously in the Mexican and Spanish cinema, besides her work in U.S.
Salma Hayek Jimenez was born on September 2, 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz to Diana Jimenez, an opera singer and talent scout, and Sami Hayek, an oil company executive. Hayek's father is of Lebanese descent while her mother is of Spanish descent.
When she was 12, she was enrolled into the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau, Louisiana. But citing her pranks and notorious behavior she was expelled from the school and sent to stay with her aunt in Houston, Texas till she was 17. Hayek later joined a college in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana. An accomplished gymnast in childhood, Salma surprised everyone one day when she announced her dropping out from college in order to pursue a career in acting.
