Salma Hayek, married name Salma Hayek Pinault, born September 2, 1966, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico.

The Mexican-American actress, director, and producer who broke barriers as one of the first Latina actress to establish a successful film career in the United States at the end of the twentieth century.

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What ethnicity is Hayek?

Her mother is a Mexican with Spanish ancestors, while her father is Lebanese but her ethnicity is Mexican.

Hayek was born in Mexico and went to Catholic school in New Orleans before enrolling at Mexico City’s Universidad Iberoamericana.

She caught the attention of television producers in the capital, who cast her in the Mexican daytime soap Teresa (1989).

Hayek traveled to Los Angeles in 1991 to seek a career in movies.

Is Salma Hayek Mexican or Puerto Rican?

She only said in the past that age would love to work in Puerto Rico as a nurse.

Is Salma Hayek 100% Mexican?

Salma is fully Mexican, but has an American citizenship as well.

His ancestors are from Baabdat, Lebanon, where Salma and her father visited in 2015 to promote her film The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.

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