Today is Salma Hayek’s anniversary! Happy birthday, Salma!

Salma Hayek (born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez; September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American film actress and producer. Hayek’s breakthrough role came in the 2002 biographical film Frida, a film which she co-produced and starred in as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. For her performance, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Mexican actress nominated in that category, in addition to nominations for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and British Academy Film Award for Best Actress. The film was widely praised and became a critical and commercial success. Hayek won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special for The Maldonado Miracle in 2004, and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series after guest-starring in the ABC television comedy-drama Ugly Betty in 2007. From April 7 to June 18, 2006, the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, Texas hosted an exh