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Salma Hayek: Frida Kahlo
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Salma Hayek's latest production just might be her best to date. The filmmaker-actress and her fiancé, French businessman François-Henri Pinault, welcomed their first child together Friday, daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault."Mother and child are doing wel... Read On
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Salma Hayek has proven herself as a prolific producer and actress in both film and television. This year, she was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actress for her portrayal of Frida Kahlo in Julie Taymor's acclaimed Frida, on which she ... served as producer. She also garnered a SAG nomination and a BAFTA nomination. In total, Frida earned six Oscar nominations and received two statuettes, for makeup and musical score. She recently appeared in Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over and will soon be seen in Robert Altman's Ultraviolet.
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After a brief uncredited appearance in 2000's Traffic, Salma Hayek starred as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo in 2002's Frida, which she ... coproduced. Her pet project garnered her Golden Globe, Oscar and Golden Satellite nominations for best actress, as well as Germany's Golden Camera for Best International Actress. She has also appeared on the hit comedy Ugly Betty, which she is the executive producer of as well.
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In the late 1990s, Hayek went back to mainstream movies starring in Wild Wild West (1999), which grossed well over $100 million, and Dogma (1999). Her own production company, "Ventanarosa", co-produced the Mexican film Coronel no tiene quien le escriba, El (1999), which was shown at the Cannes film festival and submitted as an Oscar entry. At this time, Hayek had ... started preparation on her upcoming Frida Kahlo film and managed to star in more movies, most notably Mike Figgis's 'Timecode,' 'Chain Of Fools,' and 'La Gran Vida.'
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Hayek is nursing a bottle of Ice Age mineral water between her knees while wildly waving her arms about, joyously relieved that after eight years, her beloved Frida is finally about to see the light of day. For eight years Salma had been desperate to bring the Frida Kahlo story to the screen, and she is very clear as to why. "There was something about the woman and the times in which she lived that I just found fascinating," explains Hayek, who is both star and producer of the movie. "She was never conventional about anything she did, was always herself, which was not easy. She started exploring with women at a very early age and was never apologetic about who she was. Also, the fact that she took all the different tragedies or difficulties in her life and made the best out of them, and not only made the best out of them, but did it in an interesting way. From pain, she did art and poetry; from the infidelities of her husband, she found freedom."
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Salma started her smoking habit on the set of the movie Frida, to have a better understanding of her character and got hooked. She quit smoking when she discovered she was pregnant. (edit)
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