[[Salma Hayek]] started her career in Mexican [[telenovelas]]. Her first film, ''[[El callejón de los milagros]]'' (''Miracle Alley'', 1994) put her in the spotlight and, next year she was starring in ''[[Desperado (film)|Desperado]]'' alongside [[Antonio Banderas]]. She has worked several times with [[Robert Rodriguez]], including ''[[From Dusk Till Dawn]]'' (1996) and ''[[Once Upon a Time in Mexico]]'' (2003). She has worked in more than 30 films, including ''[[54 (film)|54]]'' (1998), ''El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba'' (''[[No One Writes to the Colonel]]'', 1999), ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]'' (1999), ''[[Traffic (2000 film)|Traffic]]'' (2000), ''[[Frida]]'' (2002), for which she earned an [[Academy Award]] nomination, ''[[Ask the Dust (film)|Ask the Dust]]'' (2006) and ''[[Bandidas]]'' (2006). In 2003 she directed ''[[The Maldonado Miracle]]'', a [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] movie. In the 2006, she produced the successful television series ''[[Ugly Betty]]''.