She attended college in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana. She had limited fluency in English, which was attributed to her suffering from dyslexia. Robert Rodriguez and his producer and then wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave Hayek a starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995′s Desperado. Hayek had a starring part opposite Matthew Perry in the 1997 romantic comedy Fools Rush In. Starring Hayek as Frida Kahlo, and Alfred Molina as her unfaithful husband, Diego Rivera, the film was directed by Julie Taymor and featured an entourage of stars in supporting and minor roles (Valeria Golino, Ashley Judd, Edward Norton, Geoffrey Rush) and cameos (Antonio Banderas). in the movie, Salma Hayek plays one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays the Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo whom the sisters opposed. Hayek was an executive producer of Ugly Betty, a television series that aired around the world from 2006 to 2010.
Salma Hayek’s Husband, François-Henri Pinault, Is the Father of Linda Evangelista’s Son The supermodel has filed a petition seeking support in a New York court [link]
