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Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Jiménez - born 2 September 1966, in Veracruz, Mexico

Wise words: "If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice."



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Salma Hayek - news / articles


  • Hayek had to talk tough to win Stone movie role - 6 October 2011
    -Actress Salma Hayek had to prove she was tough enough to play the head of a drug cartel in Oliver Stone's upcoming movie Savages, because the director feared motherhood had turned her "all soft".-The Frida star has scaled down her work load since becoming a mother t


  • Grown Ups' Hayek intimidated by comedy co-stars - 25 August 2010
    -Salma Hayek felt intimidated while filming Grown Ups - because her kings of comedy co-stars Adam Sandler, Chris Rock and Kevin James improvised entire scenes.- -The actress plays Sandler's wife in the new movie and insists she was blown away by the ad-libbing skills


  • Hayek defends snake leap - 28 June 2010
    -Salma Hayek has defended her on-camera panic during a recent junket interview - explaining she has a morbid fear of snakes.- -The actress and co-stars Maria Bello and Maya Rudolph were sitting lakeside for the Extra TV interview to promote new movie Grown Ups when a

Salma Hayek - what members say


  • The Faculty
  • The Faculty review by A customer from Somerset
    Rated - 4.0 stars Sharp and slick ! 15 April 2005
    ...s as the students but notably from the gorgeous trio of teachers Famke Jansson; Salma Hayek and Bebe Neuwirth plus a snarling macho Robert Patrick as the strange 'Faculty'...   Read customer review
  • Desperado
  • Desperado review by from Winchester
    Rated - 4.0 stars It's also a chick flick 23 February 2006
    ...and Quino's guitar playing skills be brought to life? I bow to the majesty of Salma Hayek, possibly the hottest woman on the planet. I applaud the role of Quentin Tarant...   Read customer review
  • Frida
  • Frida review by A customer from Essex
    Rated - 5.0 stars Visual feast for the eyes 29 November 2003
    ...t was inside her mind when she painted those works of art. The two main actors, Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina give powerhouse performances. In comparison to the film Pollo...   Read customer review

Salma Hayek - filmography


  • Americano (2011)
    Starring: Mathieu Demy,  Salma Hayek,  Chiara Mastroianni
    Director: Mathieu Demy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The death of his mother draws a young Frenchman back to his childhood in Los Angeles as he prepares to wrap up her estate. However, things become complicated when he discovers that his mother was very fond of a woman to whom she seems to have wanted to inherit her place. He sets out to find her, a ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 2 members
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  • Puss in Boots (2011)
    Starring: Antonio Banderas,  Zach Galifianakis,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Chris Miller,  Peter A. Ramsey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Puss in Boots" -- based on one of the most beloved characters of the Shrek Universe -- tells the hilarious and courageous (daring, bold, brave) tale of Puss' early adventures as he teams with mastermind Humpty Dumpty and the street-savvy Kitty to steal the famed Goose that lays the Golden Eggs.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 167 members
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  • Grown Ups on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Adam Sandler,  Steve Buscemi,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Dennis Dugan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    They were best friends 30 years ago, now they're reuniting and they're all grown up... or are they? Join Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and Rob Schneider in this chaotic comedy for some old-fashioned fun as they meet each other's families, relive the glory days and revive old connections. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 37,817 members
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  • Grown Ups - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Adam Sandler,  Steve Buscemi,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Dennis Dugan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    They were best friends 30 years ago, now they're reuniting and they're all grown up... or are they? Join Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and Rob Schneider in this chaotic comedy for some old-fashioned fun as they meet each other's families, relive the glory days and revive old connections. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 12,320 members
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  • Across The Universe on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Evan Rachel Wood,  Joe Anderson,  Jim Sturgess
    Director: Julie Taymor
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Beatles' songs may have provided the soundtrack for the lives of those coming of age in the 1960s, but their extensive catalogue acts as the literal soundtrack in this romantic musical from visionary director Julie Taymor. Newcomer Jim Sturgess stars as Jude, a young man working on the docks in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,368 members
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  • Lonely Hearts on DVD (2006)
    Starring: John Travolta,  James Gandolfini,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Todd Robinson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the true story, two homicide detectives (Travolta and Gandolfini) track Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, a murderous pair known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers" who lure their victims through the personals...
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 7,830 members
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  • Ask The Dust on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Colin Farrell,  Salma Hayek,  Donald Sutherland
    Director: Robert Towne
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of John Fante's Depression Era novel, Hayek plays the fiery Mexican beauty Camilla who hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. This is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 1,668 member
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  • After The Sunset on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Salma Hayek,  Woody Harrelson
    Director: Brett Ratner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After a successful last score, a master thief (Brosnan) retires to an island paradise. His lifelong nemesis, a crafty FBI agent, washes ashore to ensure he's making good on his promise. The pair soon enters into a new game of cat-and-mouse.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 26,352 members
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  • Stupidity (2003)
    Starring: John Cleese,  Noam Chomsky,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Albert Nerenberg
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Stupidity sets out to determine whether our culture is hooked on deliberate ignorance as a strategy for success. From Adam Sandler to George W. Bush, from the IQ test to TV programming, to the origins of the word moron, Stupidity examines the "dumbing down" of contemporary culture. Stupidity ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 13 members
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  • Frida on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Salma Hayek,  Geoffrey Rush,  Alfred Molina
    Director: Julie Taymor
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Brilliant colours that bring Frida Kahlo's Mexico City to vibrant life combine with a captivating performance by Salma Hayek to make director Julie Taymor's FRIDA a fascinating film. Starting and ending with Frida on her deathbed, the film spans the famous painter's life from her teenage years to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 15,148 members
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  • Living It Up on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Salma Hayek,  Alicia Agut,  Carmelo Gomez
    Director: Antonio Cuadri
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Salma Hayek is Lola, a Mexican waitress who befriends Martin (Carmelo Gomez), a young, free-spending millionaire. There is a little secret behind his money: he has borrowed one a million dollars with which to have a good time on the day before he commits suicide. After realizing that he is in love ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 260 members
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  • Hotel on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Rhys Ifans,  David Schwimmer,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Mike Figgis
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    An experimental and challenging film from director Mike Figgis, HOTEL follows a movie crew in Venice filming a version of THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, which is in turn filmed by a documentary filmmaker. One of the movies ends in a bloodbath of torture, carnage, and cannibalism. But which one
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 657 members
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  • Timecode on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Salma Hayek,  Holly Hunter,  Saffron Burrows
    Director: Mike Figgis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follow a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner's dalliances and the tense goings-on of a Hollywood film production company
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,911 member
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  • Dogma on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Ben Affleck,  Matt Damon,  Linda Fiorentino
    Director: Kevin Smith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Imaginative theology and a bigger-than-usual budget make Kevin Smith's (CHASING AMY, CLERKS) fourth film a kind of post-Catholic fantasy that only a comic-book enthusiast of his caliber could dream up. It concerns banished angels, Loki (Matt Damon) and Bartleby (Ben Affleck) who, after a few ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 21,518 members
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  • Wild Wild West on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Kevin Kline,  Kenneth Branagh
    Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Barry Sonnenfeld is reunited with his MEN IN BLACK star Will Smith in this gadget-soaked romp based (loosely) on the 1960s television show. WILD WILD WEST supplies many impressive visuals (thanks to brilliant production designer Bo Welch) and some hearty laughs. Will Smith is James West, a Civil ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 12,906 members
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  • Studio 54 on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ryan Phillippe,  Salma Hayek,  Neve Campbell
    Director: Mark Christopher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A look behind the brightlights of the hottest nightclub ever. When Shane joins the queue for the club, little does he realise that he'll be plucked from the crowd and get a job behind the bar and become the nightspot's main attraction. Follow the rise and fall of this decadent empire.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,712 member
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  • The Faculty - Blu-ray (1998)
    Starring: Clea Duvall,  Laura Harris,  Josh Hartnett
    Director: Robert Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The story of a group of high school students - loners, leaders, hipsters, nerds, brains and jocks - who make the terrifying discovery that their teachers are from another planet. With this knowledge they are forced to band together to save their school and town from alien domination.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 231 members
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  • The Faculty on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Clea Duvall,  Laura Harris,  Josh Hartnett
    Director: Robert Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The story of a group of high school students - loners, leaders, hipsters, nerds, brains and jocks - who make the terrifying discovery that their teachers are from another planet. With this knowledge they are forced to band together to save their school and town from alien domination.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 5,489 members
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  • Who the Hell Is Juliette? (1997)
    Starring: Yuliet Ortega,  Fabiola Quiroz,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Carlos Marcovich
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A absolutely stunning documentary from Mexico, WHO THE HELL IS JULIETTE interweaves the story of Juliette, a 16 year-old Mexican prostitute with that of the Mexican model Fabiola Quiroz. The two could be twins, and their family lives are similarly anarchic; Juliette never knew her father, and ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 36% from 6 members
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  • Fled on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Laurence Fishburne,  Stephen Baldwin,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Kevin Hooks
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A pair of on-the-lam escaped convicts (Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin) race against time, the Cuban mafia, and the police to find some stashed loot and a computer disk which will either set them free or get them killed.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 577 members
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  • Fools Rush In on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Matthew Perry,  Salma Hayek,  Jon Tenney
    Director: Andrew Tennant,  Andy Tennant
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After their rash one-night-stand results in an unanticipated pregnancy, two virtual strangers--a stuffy, upwardly mobile white Manhattanite and an intense Chicana artist--impetuously decide to tie the knot Vegas-style. But can they survive the pressures of their worlds-apart backgrounds and fall in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 3,409 members
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  • Desperado on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Antonio Banderas,  Joaquim De Almeida,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Robert Rodriguez
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    With DESPERADO, director Robert Rodriguez presents the sequel to his 1992 low-budget action flick, EL MARIACHI. This film continues the story of the brooding no-name Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), whose guitar case is stocked with high-powered weaponry. The musician is in a sleepy Mexican town ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 18,903 members
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  • Midaq Alley (1994)
    Starring: Ernesto Gomez Cruz,  Maria Rojo,  Salma Hayek
    Director: Jorge Fons
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Set in Mexico City's old downtown section, this is a character study of three neighbors, whose stories intertwine: Rutilio, a family man who fears his homosexual feelings; Susanita, a dreaming spinster who falls prey to a thief; and Alma (Hayek), a virgin who succombs to cocaine and prostitution.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 13 members
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Salma Hayek facts

5 most recent films

Americano - 2.0 stars
Puss in Boots - 3.5 stars
Grown Ups - 3.5 stars
Grown Ups - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Cirque du Freak - The Vampire's Assistant - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Marc Jacobs And Louis Vuitton - 4.0 stars
Ugly Betty - Season 1 - 4.0 stars
From Dusk Till Dawn - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
From Dusk Till Dawn - 3.5 stars
Dogma - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Americano - 2.0 stars
Who the Hell Is Juliette? - 2.0 stars
Stupidity - 2.5 stars
Midaq Alley - 3.5 stars
Hotel - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alan Dale - 7 times - show films
Antonio Banderas - 7 times - show films
Christopher Gorham - 7 times - show films
Judith Light - 7 times - show films
Eric Mabius - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Rodriguez - 10 times - show films
James Hayman - 7 times - show films
Sheree Folkson - 7 times - show films
Richard Shepard - 7 times - show films
Mike Figgis - 5 times - show films