The Mexican actress Salma Hayek, 41, has given birth to a girl, Valentina Paloma Pinault, her publicist announced Friday.

"Mother and child are doing well," Hayek's publicist Cari Ross said in a statement but other details, like the delivery day, were not clear from the announcement.

In March this year, Salma Hayek announced her engagement with French business executive Francois-Henri Pinault, the CEO of Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, which owns fashion houses Gucci, Stella McCartney and Yves Saint Laurent.

For the Mexican actress Valentina Paloma is the first child, while Francois-Henri Pinault has two previous children.

Salma Hayek, who was nominated for an Academy Award, for her role in “Frida” in 2002 is also one of the executive producers of ABC’s "Ugly Betty"

In April this year Salma Hayek was appointed as the CEO of Ventanazul, a production company she formed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc, which will focus on Latin-themed material.

As announced Ventazul has to produce and acquire between two and four Latin-themed films per year for MGM.

Hayek’s debut in Hollywood was in 1995 when she co-starred with Antonio Banderas in Desperado. Hayek's Hollywood credits include 1996's From Dusk Till Dawn, 1999’s Wid, wild West, Frida in 2002 and Once Upon a Time in Mexico in 2003.