An Oscar nominee for Best Actress, Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault, is also film director and producer. Diana Jimenez, an opera singer and scout of talent, is mother of Salma while her father is an executive of Oil Company. In 1989, Hayek starred in Teresa, which was a great telenovela of Mexican. She had a role play in the Teresa at the age of 23 when she became a successfully famous star in Mexico .

Interestingly, in 1994, Hayek had a role in Callejon de los Milagros, Miracle Alley film in English. This movie has received more wards if compare to other movie in Mexican cinema’s history. In that time, the Mexican star, Hayek was a nominee for an Ariel Award. Moving to Los Angeles , California , Hayek studied acting under control of Stella Adler. Because of Hayek‘s limitation of English fluency, it was hard for her to communicate with other people in term of reading and writing. In 1997, Hayek had a role as a vampire queen in the Desperado. Hayek made a production company of film, Ventanarosa around. Being a producer, she had a first feature, which named 1999’s Coronel No Tiene Ouien Le Escriba. Her first feature was selected officially and submitted to the Oscars for Best Foreign Film. Hayek’s engagement to the French Billionaire, François-Henri Pinault, was confirmed on 9th of March, 2007. In that time, Hayek also announced her pregnancy.

Hayek gave a birth to a beautiful daughter who named Valentina Paloma Pinault in Los Angeles , California . However, there was an announcement of their engagement cancellation on 18th of July, 2008. Finally, the problem between them had been solved and they got married on 14th of February 2009, Valentine’s Day in Paris . Interestingly, they got married secondly in Venice on 25th of April in that year. In July of 2011, several reports showed that Salma Hayek’s husband was related to the paternity case, and he is a father of four-year-old child whose mother is supermodel, Linda Evangelista. However, François-Henri Pinault rejected all allegations.