Mexican Diva Salma Hayek is set to star in Oprah Winfrey`s four-hour TV movie based on Toni Morrison`s novel "Paradise", adapted and directed by Darnell Martin for ABC-TV, according to Variety.

The role in this movie, which revolves around the slayings of several women by a group of black men in the town of Ruby, Okla, marks Salma's TV return.
The 38-year-old actress started her career with a part in the Mexican soap opera "Nuevo Amanecer".

Salma Hayek Jimenez, was born on 2 September 1966 in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico as the daughter of a Lebanese-descended father and a Spanish-descended mother.

Her appearance on a Spanish-language cable-access talk show was the one that led to her big breakthrough, as she has been seen by Robert Rodriguez, who later sustained her Desperado part as Carolina in front of his financial advisers.


She is famous for films like "Fools Rush In", "Dogma", "Wild Wild West", "Once Upon a Time in Mexico", "Traffic", "Frida", "Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over" and many others.

Salma Hayek, who has been lobbying against domestic violence on behalf of Avon Cosmetics, will next been seen in three films, "Ask the Dust" opposite Colin Farrell; "Bandidas" with Penelope Cruz; and with John Travolta and James Gandolfini in the independent film "Lonely Hearts."