The beginning of a great star

Salma Hayek is now one of the most famous Latin American stars in the world of cinema, but do not think it has been easy for her to get to where she is now. Salma Hayek (name in Hindu means Peace) Hayek Jimenez is the daughter of the Mexican businessman of Lebanese origin Sami Hayek and the Mexican opera Singer Diana Hayek. She began her career as an actress in 1988 appearing in many telenovelas in Mexico, her home country.

 Salma Hayek quit Universidad Iberoamericana to pursue her dream of becoming an actor, an ambition she had harbored since she was a young child watching Sunday matinees with her father.Salma Hayek is one of the best-know Mexican actresses in Hollywood, but his fame she owes to telenovelas, the genre where her career began. Let's remember his first steps in acting.

His first telenovela was "Nuevo Amanecer" in 1988 where she gave life to 'Fabiola'. Daniela Castro, Salma and Raúl Araiza formed the juvenile love triangle. While she had previously held small roles in other soap operas, it was her leading role in the Mexican soap "Teresa" that turned Hayek into an overnight success.

Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991 to study acting under Stella Alder. She had limited fluency in english, and dyslexia. Robert Rodriguez and his producer and then wife, Elizabeth Avellan, soon gave Hayek a starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Deseperado. Her famous role was in the movie Frida, she interpretating Frida Kahlo.

The story of this great actress makes us realize that we have to fight for our dreams and believe in ourselves, she is an inspiration for many Mexican people nowadays. mexico needs that, needs a stronger woman that show us that life is not easy and that womans also show that women are opening paths of great importance in history