Filmography
The Wild Wild West (1999)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld (MIB). Starring: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh. Short summary: This Western is about two lawmen (Smith and Kline), who must stop an assassination attempt aimed at President Ulysses Grant. She plays Rita Escobar, a woman caught in a love triangle between government agents James West and Artemus Gordon. Ohter: Shooting began in May 16, 1998. The film is going to be released in theaters in the summer 1999.
El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba (a.k.a. Nobody Writes to the Colonel) (1999)
Director: Arturo Ripstein. Other: This is a mexican movie based on the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The story is located in Veracruz, Mexico, the place where Salma was born.
Dogma (1999)
Director: Kevin Smith. Starring: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino. Other: In this movie Salma plays an ex-muse, and at the same time a nightclub stripper. This movie is very different compared to her earlier movies. Here you can see see Gods, muses, angels, apostles, and all kind of things that's related to religions and never been considered for modern movies.
Frida (1999)
Director: Roberto Sneider. Writer: Hayden Herrera. Short summary: This movie is like one of Salma Hayek real dreams, cause she always wanted to act as the famous mexican painter Frida Kahlo. This is going to be a biographical movie about Frida Kahlo's life, which was really complex. Other: This movie is going to be filmed in April 1998, and it's going to be in theaters sometime in 1999.
The Faculty (1998)
Director: Robert Rodriguez. Writer: Kevin Williamson. Starring: Elijah Wood. Short summary: A horror tale set in a High School where the students suspect that the their teachers is aliens, who are intent on making the students their victims. Other: In this movie Salma only will make a small appearance for her truly friend Robert Rodriguez. Released in December 25 1998.
54 (1998)
Director: Mark Christopher. Producer: Ira Deutchman. Starring: Mike Myers, Neve Campbell, Ryan Phillippe. Short summary: He was a good-looking guy from a small, boring town in New Jersey... until he crossed the river into New York City and entered a world overflowing with luxury, sexual desire and decadence. A nightclub that was nothing less than the center of the universe - Studio 54.
The Velocity of Gary (1998)
Director: Joe Simon. Producer: Joe Simon. Starring: Vincent D´Onofrio, Thomas Jane. Short summary: This movie is about relationships in the 90´according. This movie talks about a couple formed by Mary Carmen, Valentino and Gary. Mary Carmen and Valentino are a happy couple until Valentino noticed that he was going to die in aids, so he decided to spent his last days with his beautiful girlfriend Mary Carmen and his gay lover Gary, by this time all began to be a little complicated. Other: This movie was filmed in New York and Los Angeles.
Breaking Up (1997)
Director: Robert Greenwald. Starring: Russell Crowe. Short summary: It about a couple that is to much meant for each other that they can't live together. Sounds confusing? It is. The story is about Monica and Steve and their relation, their fights and their breaking-up attempts.
The Hunchback (TV movie) (1997)
Director: Peter Medak. Writer: Victor Hugo. Starring: Richard Harris, Mandy Patinkin. Ohter: This is a movie specially made for television, in this film Salma played Esmeralda, the gypsy that enchanted Quasimodo and his master Dom Frollo. During filming this movie Salma met her actual boyfriend Edward Atterton. This movie is shown at TNT channel and also released on video in U.S.A. and in Latin America.
Gente Bien (1997)
Producer: Lucy Orozco. Starring: Helena Rojo, Cesar Evora, Paty Manterola. Other: Salma appeared in this soap opera just because the producer was her friend. He was the one that gave her the opportunity on the leading role in the soap opera in Teresa. The soap opera was on the air in both Mexico and the States.
Follow me home (1997)
Director: Peter Bratt. Starring: Jesse Borrego, Steve Reevis, Calvin Levels, Benjamin Bratt, Alfre Woodard. Short summary: Each artist is haunted by a personal demon. The group's leader, nicknamed Tudee is the driving force behind the mural project. He also has a deep and mystical connection to a spirit-infested and special effects-driven "dreamtime," in which he is taunted by a decadent Nero like figure who represents a white colonialism of the mind. Freddy is a Native American haunted by both substance abuse and time spent in prison. Kaz is a health-conscious, pacifistic black man trapped in a violent, fast-food environment. These three, and the entire film, are offset by the presence of Tudee's cousin, Abel, a miasma of foul mouthed misogyny, racism, drug addiction, and all-around chronic insufferability. It's hard to believe that anyone would want to travel with this guy, especially in a cramped van headed across the country. Perhaps scariest of all, his character is the most fully developed and therefore the most realistic figure in the movie.
Running a different course is Evey, traveling alone in the desert with a mysterious package. Her car collides with another car on the highway, killing its occupant. A white male dressed in Native American war attire and the artists in the van stop to help. When the victim's friends happen upon the scene, all five become unexpectedly entangled with a group of costumed white men re-enacting 19th century Indian wars. As you might expect, things get pretty ugly.
Fools Rush In (1997)
Director: Andy Tennant. Starring: Matthew Perry, Jon Tenney. Short summary: Sparks fly and cultures collide in this romantic comedy about a casual night of passion that turns into the love of a lifetime. Alex Whitman, a New Yorker is sent to Las Vegas to oversee a construction project. There he meets Isabel Fuentes, and some serious chemistry brings them togethere for a one night stand. But the next morning she's disapeared. Until three months later, when she is visititing him, telling him she's pregnant. In the rush they also marries and the misstakes keeps flowing, or was it a misstake?
¿Quién Diablos es Juliette? (1997)
Director: Carlos Marcovich. Other: A lot of people have seen this movie on one important film festival, and it had a really good acceptance. This film is some kind of documental that according to the movie critics, it's really funny and touching at the time, and that have big opportunities to seduce a different kind of public.
Disney's El Jorobado de Notre Dame (1996)
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise. Short summary: The classic Victor Hugo tale of Quasimodo, the misshapen gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who is hidden from the world in the belltower of the cathedral. During the Festival of Fools, Quasimodo decides to take part in the festivities, where he meets the lively gypsy girl Esmeralda and the handsome soldier Phoebus. The three of them find themselves ranged against Frollo's cruelty and his attempts to destroy the home of the gypsies. Quasimodo must desperately defend both Esmeralda and the very cathedral of Notre Dame. Salma makes the voice of Esmerelda in the Spanish dubbed version.
Fled (1996)
Director: Kevin Hooks. Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin. Short summary: Two dangerously mismatched convicts are trown into a wild race to outwit, outrun and outgun vicious enemies on both sides of the law, the police and the cuban maffia, in this blistering, high impact action-triller. After a hair-raising escape from a prision chain-gang, convicts Piper and Dodge find themselves hand-cuffed together through the Georgia wilderness. In this movie Salma acted Cora, a woman that helped Piper and Dodge on their run. Rocking with head-spinning stunts and non-stop action, FLED plunges you into the most outrageous, high-speed adventure ever to seen on a screen.
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Director: Robert Rodriguez. Starring: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis. Short summary: Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the lam after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. With the aid of a priest and his family taken hostage, they escape across the border into Mexico. They just have to survive 'from dusk till dawn' at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a bar full of vampires. Salma plays the dancing vampire Satanico Pandemonium.)
Fair Game (1995)
Director: Andrew Sipes. Starring: William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford. Short summary: Max Kirkpatrick is an excellent cop who takes it to himself to protect the lovely Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her. An exciting chase ensures, with the KGB team demonstrating its prowess at electronic tracking. Salma plays Max's lover Rita.
Desperado (1995)
Director: Robert Rodriguez. Starring: Antonio Banderas, Joaquim De Almeida, Steve Buscemi, Quentin Tarantino. Short summary: A mysterious stranger arrives in a Mexican town, seeking revenge on the local crime boss, who murdered his lover and made a big hole in his left hand. Desperado opens with an amusing shaggy-dog-joke sequence featuring Buscemi and Marin and grabs your attention with its hyperkinetic scenes of gunplay. This is Rodriguez's sequel to his inventive debut picture El Mariachi. Salma plays Carolina, a bookstore owner and the mariachi's new love interest.
El Callejón de los Milagros (a.k.a. Midaq Alley) (1995)
Director: Jorge Fons. Starring: Ernesto Gomez Cruz, Margarita Sanz. Short summary: Based on the Nobel Prize Winner's novel, the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz. The story, translated from El Cairo to Mexico City's downtown, narrates the life of the members of the neighborhood and the connection between them, Don Ru, the owner of the local pub; Eusebia, his wife; Guicho, his son and Abel his friend, who emigrate to USA in search of fortune; Susanita, the single landtender always dreaming to marry a good man; Jimmy, the pub's employee, who extracts the money when Don Ru is not there and finally marries Susanita; Alma becomes a luxury prostitute while he's away, etc. This movie won the Ariel (the Mexican Oscar) as best movie in 1995. Here Salma plays a girl called Alma.
Four Rooms (segment "The Misbehavers") (1995)
Director: Robert Rodriguez. Starring: Antonio Banderas, Tamlyn Tomita. Short summary: It's Ted's, the Bellhop, first night at his job. It's a very unusual hotel, where the guests are about to place him on the most outrageous predicaments! One of them is when he is left to watch over Banderas' kids, who are experts at misbehaving. Salma plays a scantily clad dancer on a TV in the background.
El Vuelo del Aguila (1994)
Starring: Humberto Zurita, Manuel Ojeda, Patricia Reyes Spindola. Other: This was a historical serie about the Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz, in this soap opera Salma Hayek played Juanacata, one of Diaz girlfriends, while he was in war. This serie was divided in 6 parts, and Salma Hayek acted in "La Guerra" (The War).
Roadracers (TV movie) (1994)
Director: Robert Rodriguez. Starring: David Arquette. Short summary: It's the wild story of a rocking rebel racing through life with a fast car, a guitar and a sexy girlfriend. But when a confrontation ends with deadly threats, this young rebel finds himself speeding head-on toward a showdown that'll settle the score for good. With hot stars and an energetic style all of its own, Roadracers is fast-paced entertainment that never slows down. Salma Hayek played the girlfriend, Donna Chicanna.
Mi Vida Loca (a.k.a. My Crazy Life) (1993)
Director: Anders Allison. Starring: Seidy Lopez, Angel Aviles. Short summary: Mousie and Sad Girl are best friends since childhood in a poor hispanic neighborhood in Los Angeles. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two becomes bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives. Salma has a small supporting role as Gata.
Dream On (1993)
Starring: Brian Benben. Other: HBO comedy serie about a divorced father who works as a book editor. Salma was a guest star, playing a smart and sexy maid.
The Sinbad Show (1993)
Starring: Sinbad. Other: Sinbad was as a video game programmer which was raising two kids. Salma had a regular role, playing his neighbor Gloria.
Nurses (1993)
NBC sitcom about nurses working in a hospital. Salma was a guest star, playing Gina's sister, Yolanda Cuevas.
Las Visitas Tienen Sueño (1990)
Starring:Alberto Mayagoitia, Claudia Ramirez. Short summary: A theatrical comedy about when you have a party, which you want to end, because you are too bored.
Teresa (1989)
Director: Lucy Orozco. Starring: Rafael Rojas. Short summary: In an atmosphere where family conflicts derived from poverty come up on a daily basis, Teresa hopes to escape from the misery that snatched her sister’s life from her. With skillfull plans and adventures that eventually will lead her to a life filled with fortune and power. She uses her beauty and charm to manipulate and to get what she wants. However, there is only one obstacle keeping her from reaching her goal, she must learn to control her feelings towards the man she loves, who like herself, comes from an impoverished world.
Nuevo Amanecer (1989)
Director: Ernesto Alonso (a.k.a. Mr. Telenovela in Mexico). Other: This was Salma's first tele-novela.
Aladino y La Lampara Maravillosa (1988)
Starring: Cepillin (famous clown in Mexico). Short summary: She played a girl named Jasmine. It says that she was so well liked by the little boys in the audience, that many of them rushed up on the stage and tried to save her when the villain tried to harm her.
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