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Salma Hayek is best known for one of her first roles in Desperado, but she's had a lot of roles and a long career. You may ... remember her in such movies as Fools Rush In, Wild Wild West & Frida. A very talented actress, Salma Hayek is one star that will always be shinning, Online Casinos.
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In 2000, Salma Hayek kept busy with roles in Timecode, Chain of Fools, and she had a brief uncredited appearance in the Oscar-winning Traffic. After a role in 2001's Hotel, Hayek starred in the made-for-TV movie In the Time of the Butterflies.
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Lynn Rosenthal, president of The National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV), joined actress Salma Hayek and other advocates to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the need to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). NNEDV has been a leading force in efforts to support VAWA. Along with its member state domestic violence coalitions, NNEDV ... played a crucial role in the passage of VAWA in 1994 and its reauthorization in 2000. VAWA is set to expire on September 30th unless Congress acts now, and Rosenthal said the hearing is an important step forward in ensuring that this vital legislation is reauthorized.
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In the meantime, Salma was working on what would become her pet project, Frida. A biopic of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, the movie was released in 2002, featured Salma in the title role, and was ... coproduced by Hayek. The role garnered Salma Best Actress nominations by the Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards. She took home Best Actress trophies at the Imagen Foundation Awards and the Golden Camera (Best International Actress).
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Hayek's Frida, the story of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, premieres. Hayek, who ... coproduces, is nominated for an Oscar for starring in the title role. She spent eight years getting the film made. "[Making a film] is not an easy task for anyone, let alone a Latin American woman who has an accent," her pal and Frida costar Mia Maestro tells PEOPLE. "But she doesn't see those things as an excuse; she uses them to empower her."
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Other small roles followed, mostly on television, but it was an appearance on a Spanish-language cable-access talk show that led to Hayek's big breakthrough. While in the process of planning a sequel to his wildly successful debut film, El Mariachi, Mexican-American director Robert Rodriguez happened to tune in to Hayek's talk show appearance during a fit of late-night channel surfing. Mesmerized by the lovely and engaging actress, Rodriguez wasted no time tracking her down, and soon secured her interest in tackling the female lead in his soon-to-be-produced big-studio debut, Desperado. Rodriguez's financial backers initially resisted his choice of Hayek, but the director won them over by showcasing her in his made-for-cable installment of Showtime's Rebel Highway series, Roadracers. A solid commercial success, Desperado ... garnered Hayek rave reviews for her show-stopping, saliva-inducing performance. Despite the fact she was disappointingly underrepresented in her next two outings, in the limp thrillers Fair Game and Fled, Hayek's performances nevertheless provided much-needed zip for both projects, and 1997 found her nicely romantically matched in both Fools Rush In and TNT's adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which she portrayed Esmerelda to Mandy Patinkin's Quasimodo.
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