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Touted by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez as the first Mexican star to play the female lead in an American movie since Dolores Del Rio, the stunningly beautiful and charismatic Salma Hayek scorched stateside cineplexes as the fiery border town bookseller who romances Antonio Banderas' vengeful "mariachi" in "Desperado" (1995). She had previously won the hearts of her countrymen with two TV roles in the late 1980s, first as an innocent schoolgirl in "Nuevo Amancer" and subsequently as the comely bad girl protagonist of "Teresa" in the extremely popular primetime soap. Fearing that Mexican audiences
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Milestone
Raised in Coatzacaolcos, Mexico
1980
At age 12, told her father she would "go on strike" and fail all her classes if he did not allow her to go to school in America
Sent to a Catholic school in Texas; studied for two years before being expelled
1989
Mexican TV series debut, "Nuevo Amancer"
1989
Won stardom as "Teresa" in the hugely popular Mexican primetime serial
1991
Left Mexico at the height of her popularity and moved to Los Angeles
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