- Salma's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants.
- Salma is the first Mexican national to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.
- Salma is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood since the silent film era.o.
- Salma is also, after Fernanda Montenegro, the second of three Latin American actresses (the other being Catalina Sandino Moreno) to achieve a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
- In July 2007, The Hollywood Reporter ranked Salma fourth in their inaugural Latino Power 50, a list of the most powerful members of the Hollywood Latino community.
- According to a poll, "65 percent of the .S. population would use the term 'sexy' to describe Salma".
- In Deceber 2008, Entertainment Weekly ranked Salma number 17 in their list of the "25 Smartest People in TV."
- Salma's first name, Salma, is Arabic for "safe".
- Salma has been was diagnosed with dyslexia.
- Salma was an accomplished gymnast aspiring to compete in the Olympics, but her father prevented her from being recruited by the Mexican national team.
- Robert Rodriguez and his producer wife Elizabeth Avellan gave Salma the break she needed, starring in a role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Desperado.
- The movie caught Hollywood's attention, as moviegoers proved to be as dazzled by Salma as Rodriguez had been.
- Due to Salma'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.
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