{"id":1009989,"date":"2022-03-03T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/03\/salma-hayek-wins-imdbs-first-icon-starmeter-award\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T19:59:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:59:06","slug":"salma-hayek-wins-imdbs-first-icon-starmeter-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/03\/salma-hayek-wins-imdbs-first-icon-starmeter-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Salma Hayek wins IMDb&#8217;s first Icon STARmeter Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Salma-Hayek-wins-IMDbs-first-Icon-STARmeter-Award.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 3 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> IMDb presented Thursday its first-ever Icon STARmeter Award to actress Salma Hayek.<\/p>\n<p>The award was created in honor of the 20th anniversary of the movie database IMDbPro.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican-American actress, whose recent roles include <i>House of Gucci <\/i>and <i>Eternals,<\/i> received the award for &#8220;her groundbreaking creative career and the indelible mark she has made on the entertainment industry,&#8221; IMDbPro head Matt Kumin <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/awards\/salma-hayek-winner-first-ever-imdb-icon-starmeter-award\/?utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_entertainmentweekly&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_term=6220e7329fa2ce00010f2a11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Entertainment Weekly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hayek decided she wanted to become an actress after seeing <i>Willy Wonka &amp; the Chocolate Factory<\/i>, according to IMDb.com.<\/p>\n<p>She earned star status in her native Mexico on the soap opera, <i style=\"letter-spacing: 0.04em;\">Teresa<\/i>, before she made her way to Los Angeles, and starred in <i style=\"letter-spacing: 0.04em;\">Fools Rush In<\/i>, and <i style=\"letter-spacing: 0.04em;\">In the Time of the Butterflies<\/i>, a small artistic film, which earned her an American Latino Media Arts award as best actress before landing her dream role in<i style=\"letter-spacing: 0.04em;\"> Frida<\/i>. Her role as the iconic Mexican painter and feminist Frida Kahlo in the box office hit earned her an Academy Award nomination for best actress.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 3 (UPI) &#8212; IMDb presented Thursday its first-ever Icon STARmeter Award to actress Salma Hayek. The award was created in honor of the 20th anniversary of the movie database IMDbPro. The Mexican-American actress, whose recent roles include House of Gucci and Eternals, received the award for &#8220;her groundbreaking creative career and the indelible mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}