Salma Hayek

Academy Award Nominee Salma Hayek has proven herself as a prolific actress, producer and director, in both film and television. She was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and a BAFTA award for her leading role in Julie Taymor's Frida.

Hayek was most recently seen in the critically-acclaimed, Beatriz at Dinner, in which she starred as the title character for director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White and for which she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. She will also star alongside Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgard in the upcoming film, The Hummingbird Project.

Hayek devoted herself to another recent passion project as a producer and actor for Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, an animated feature inspired by the book of the same name by the beloved Lebanese artist and poet. The animated film debuted at Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014 and released domestically on August 7th, 2015.

That same year, she could also be seen starring in Tale of Tales by acclaimed Italian director Matteo Garrone, which premiered at the 2015 Festival de Cannes to the longest standing ovation in the festival’s history.

Noted for her acting career, Hayek has also dedicated much of her time to social activism. Hayek served as spokesperson for the Pampers/UNICEF partnership worldwide, to help stop the spread of life-threatening maternal and neonatal tetanus. She also served as the spokesperson for the Avon Foundation's Speak Out Against Domestic Violence program, which focuses on domestic violence education, awareness and prevention, as well as support for victims. In 2005, she spoke in front the US Senate, encouraging its members to extend the Violence Against Women Act. In January 2006, the legislation was passed, ensuring that 3.9 billion dollars will be allocated to thousands of domestic violence crises and intervention agencies throughout the US. In April of 2005, Hayek visited the Arctic Circle for the celebration of Earth Day, in an effort to bring attention to the dangers that global warming is putting on the lives of the Inuit people and the rest of the world. In November 2005, she served as co-host, alongside Julianne Moore, at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, which honored Nobel laureate Mohamed el-Baradei and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency. She was also part of the One campaign that singer and activist Bono created, as well as a member of Global Green, and Youth Aids.

Hayek has been on the board of the Kering Foundation since 2009.The foundation aims to combat violence against women, focusing specifically on sexual violence in America, harmful traditional practices in Western Europe and domestic violence in Asia. The foundation also pays specific attention to refugee and migrant women worldwide.