At the age of nineteen, Anagabriela Espinoza competed against thirty-three other contestants in the national pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico 2007, held in Manzanillo, Colima, where she obtained second place and the right to compete in the 58th Miss World pageant held in Johannesburg, South Africa. On November 29, 2008, Espinoza won the Miss World Beach Beauty fast track event, thus automatically giving her a semifinal spot in the final competition.

Links

• Anagabriela Espinoza – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Anagabriela Espinoza – Miss Mexico World 2008

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She studied acting in El Centro de Capacitación Artística de Televisa (CEA).

Some of credited works include Luz Clarita (1996),María Isabel (1997), Preciosa (1998), Salud, Dinero y Amor (1997), Mujeres Engañadas (1999), Carita de Ángel (2000), El Derecho de Nacer (2001), El Juego de la Vida (2001), Amor Real (2003) and Amarte es mi Pecado (2004).

Besides acting in telenovelas, Ingrid has also starred in music videos and movies.

Ingrid, who admires actors like Ignacio López Tarso, Diana Bracho and Brad Pitt, has said that she will never launch herself as a singer, despite several offers in the past. In 2004 she acted alongside Bárbara Mori in the hit telenovela, Rubí.

Ingrid is currently dating Guy Ecker’s son John Michael Ecker an aspiring actor.

Links

• Ingrid Martz – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hayek is the first Mexican national to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood since the legendary Dolores del Rio. She is also, after Fernanda Montenegro, the second of three Latin American actresses to achieve a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

In July 2007, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Hayek fourth in their inaugural Latino Power 50, a list of the most powerful members of the Hollywood Latino community. That same month, a poll found Hayek to be the “sexiest celebrity” out of a field of 3,000 celebrities (male and female); according to the poll, “65 percent of the U.S. population would use the term ‘sexy’ to describe her”. In December 2008, Entertainment Weekly ranked Hayek number 17 in their list of the “25 Smartest People in TV.”

Mexico

At the age of 23, Hayek landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful Mexican telenovela that made her a star in Mexico. In 1994, Hayek starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), which has won more awards than any other movie in the history of Mexican cinema. For her performance, Hayek was nominated for an Ariel Award.

Early Hollywood acting work

Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California in 1991 to study acting under Stella Adler, hoping for a career in Hollywood, despite limited fluency in English, attributed to her suffering from dyslexia. Robert Rodriguez and his producer wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave Hayek the break she needed, a starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995′s Desperado. The movie caught Hollywood’s attention, as moviegoers proved to be dazzled by Hayek as Rodriguez had been. Due to Hayek’s loyalty to the director, she would later decline playing the role Catherine Zeta-Jones eventually took in The Mask of Zorro after Rodriguez abandoned the project. She has also appeared in the Spy Kids trilogy.

Hayek had a starring part opposite Matthew Perry in the romantic comedy Fools Rush In. She followed her success in Desperado with a brief but memorable role as a vampire queen in From Dusk Till Dawn, where she provocatively danced on a table. In 1999, she co-starred in Will Smith’s big-budget Wild Wild West, and played a supporting role in Kevin Smith’s Dogma. In 2000, Hayek had an uncredited acting part opposite Benicio del Toro in Traffic. In 2003, she reprised her role from Desperado by appearing in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the final film of the Mariachi Trilogy.

Later Hollywood work: Director, producer and actress

Around 2000, Hayek founded film production company Ventanarosa, through which she produces film and television projects. Her first feature as a producer was 1999′s El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, Mexico’s official selection for submission for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars.

Frida, co-produced by Hayek, was released in 2002. Starring Hayek as Frida Kahlo, and Alfred Molina as her unfaithful husband, Diego Rivera, the film was directed by Julie Taymor and featured an entourage of stars in supporting and minor roles (Valeria Golino, Ashley Judd, Edward Norton, Geoffrey Rush) and cameos (Antonio Banderas). She earned a Best Actress Academy Award nomination for her performance. This made Hayek, along with Katy Jurado and Adriana Barraza, one of only three Mexican actresses to have been nominated for an Academy Award. The film earned two Oscars.

Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name, covering the lives of the Mirabal sisters.

In the movie, Salma Hayek plays one of the sisters, Minerva, and Edward James Olmos plays the Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo whom the sisters opposed. Marc Anthony plays a brief role as Minerva’s first love, and as the motivation for her later revolutionary activities.

In 2003, Hayek produced and directed the The Maldonado Miracle, a Showtime movie which won her a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special. In December 2005, she directed a music video for Prince, titled “Te Amo Corazon” (“I love you, sweetheart”) that featured her good friend Mia Maestro.

Hayek is an executive producer of Ugly Betty, a television series airing around the world since September 2006. Hayek adapted the series for American television with Ben Silverman, who acquired the rights and scripts from the Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea in 2001. Originally intended as a half hour sitcom for NBC in 2004, the project would later be picked up by ABC for the 2006–2007 season with Silvio Horta also producing. Hayek guest-starred on Ugly Betty as Sofia Reyes, a magazine editor. She also had a cameo playing an actress in the telenovela within the show. The show quickly became a ratings hit and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy Series in 2007. Hayek’s performance as Sofia resulted in a nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards.

In April 2007, Hayek finalized negotiations with MGM to become the CEO of her own Latin themed film production company, Ventanazul. The following month she signed a two year deal with ABC to develop projects for the network through her production company, Ventanarosa.

Hayek is developing and producing La Banda, a Spanish-language romantic comedy set in Mexico, written by Issa Lopez.

Personal life

Hayek is a naturalized U.S. citizen. She dated actor Edward Norton between 1999 and 2003, and then Josh Lucas in 2003. She has friends in Los Angeles and Mexico and is best friends with Spanish actress Penélope Cruz. The two co-starred in the 2006 film Bandidas. Hayek studied at Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment. Her brother, Sami Hayek, is a designer with his own line of products at Target and clients that include Louis Vuitton, Brad Pitt, and the Mexican Government.

Hayek often uses method acting to play characters. While she was cast as Frida Kahlo, Hayek had to smoke for the role using real cigarettes. As a result in her own admission she became a smoker and is currently trying to kick the habit.

On March 9, 2007, Hayek confirmed she was expecting her first child with PPR CEO François-Henri Pinault. On September 21, 2007, she gave birth to daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. On July 18, 2008, Hayek and Pinault announced the end of their engagement. but later reconciled and were married on Valentine’s Day, 2009 in Paris.

Links

• Salma Hayek – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Salma Hayek at the Internet Movie Database

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Other Information

• Birth name: Mayra Matos Pérez
• Birthdate: August 28, 1988 (1988-08-28) (age 20)
• Birth location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Height: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
• Eye color: Brown
• Hair color: Brown
• Title(s): Miss Cabo Rojo Teenage 2005, Miss Puerto Rico Teenage 2005, Miss Teen International 2006, Miss Cabo Rojo Universe 2009, Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2009, Major Competition(s): Miss Puerto Rico Teenage 2005, winner), Miss Teen International 2006 (winner), Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2009 (winner)

Links

• Mayra Matos – Wikipedia

Representing her native state of Jalisco, Karla Carrillo competed in the national beauty pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico 2008, where she obtained first place among thirty-two other contestants, thus making her the first Jaliscan to win the national title since Jacqueline Bracamontes in 2000.

She was crowned by outgoing Nuestra Belleza Mexico titleholder Elisa Nájera of Guanajuato. Carrillo is expected to represent her country in the upcoming international Miss Universe 2009 pageant. Currently she is going through and arduous preparation for the Miss Universe contest in Mexico City along with also title holder for Nuestra Belleza Mexico Mundo Perla Beltran. In the Nuestra Belleza Mexico official website, the title holders recently sent out a message for all their followers telling them to stay tune because they are going to be posting videos of their preparation.

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• Karla Carrillo

Her acting career began with her role in the Telenovela Azul (1996) followed by Pueblo chico, infierno grande (1997) for which she received the Heraldo award for best female acting, and Desencuentro which was her third telenovela under the direction of Ernesto Alonso.Tentaciones (1998) marked her beginning with the production company Producciones Argos. She was immediately offered a role in Destino and Todo por amor, for which she received the Palmas de oro award.

Cara o Cruz was the first telenovela co-production between Argos Comunicación and Telemundo, that was made exclusively for the hispanic audience living in the United States. It was later rebroadcasted in Mexico, by independent channel CNI. She was also seen playing María in the telenovela Por tí for TV Azteca and the mini-series that followed up on Pedro El Escamoso, Como Pedro por su casa which was a co-production between Caracol from Colombia and Telemundo.

Reguera has been in many commercials and television shows in Mexico, such as: Mujer, casos de la vida real, Al derecho y al Dérbez, Íntimamente Shanik, Chiquitos pero picosos, La venta increíble, Llévatelo and Cómplices en familia.

In theatre she has participated in El cartero directed by Raúl Quintanilla, for which she received two awards from the ‘Mexican Association of Theatre Journalists.

Her introduction to film began in Por la Libre, under the direction of Juan Carlos de Llaca. Later she acted in the film Un Secreto de Esperanza and in 2003 Ladies Night, alongside Ana Claudia Talancón. In 2005 she played the starring role in Gitanas which aired on Telemundo in the United States.

She is perhaps best known world wide for her role as Sister Encarnación in Nacho Libre, a film by Jared Hess, director of Napoleon Dynamite. Throughout her career, Reguera has often been mistaken for Penélope Cruz.

In 2006, she hosted the MTV Video Music Awards Latin America along with Mexican alternative rock group Molotov.

Reguera can also be seen in recent movies including Sultanes del Sur and Paraiso Travel released in 2006, and A Happy Death due for release sometime in 2007.

She has never been married and has no children, she is currently dating Jorge Ramos, an anchor at Univision and in 2006 dated Austin Ryan Fuentes.

She is currently working with Argos Comunicación on the HBO Latin American series “Capadocia” along with Rebecca Jones and also serves as spokesperson for CoverGirl cosmetics.