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Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is an Academy Award,
Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated Mexican actress, Daytime Emmy-winning
director, and an Emmy-nominated tv and film producer. Hayek has appeared in
more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in
Mexico and Spain. 
Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women
and discrimination against immigrants. In July 2007 The Hollywood Reporter ranked Hayek
fourth in their inaugural Latino Power 50, a list of the most powerful members of the
Hollywood Latino community. That same month a poll found Hayek to be the "sexiest celebrity"
out of a field of 3,000 celebrities (male and female); according to the poll, "65 percent of the U.S.
population would use the term “sexy” to describe" her.Hayek dated fellow actor Edward Norton
between 1999 and 2003, and then Josh Lucas in 2003. She has homes in Los Angeles and
Mexico and is best friends with Spanish actress Penelope Cruz. The two co-starred in the 2006
film, Bandidas. Hayek studied at Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. On March 9, 2007, Salma
confirmed she is expecting her first child with PPR CEO François-Henri Pinault. |
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