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In 2014, Saldana was recognized by Elle magazine during The Women in Hollywood Awards, honoring women for achievements in film, spanning all aspects of the motion-picture industry, including acting, directing, and producing. Saldana spent much of her childhood in Queens, New York. However, when she was nine years old, her father died in a car accident, and she moved with her family to the Dominican Republic, her father’s home country. There she studied dance at the Ecos Espacio de Danza dance studio. When she was 17, she returned to New York City and began performing with youth theatre groups. After two small guest appearances (1999) on the television series Law & Order, Saldana was cast in a prominent role in the movie Center Stage (2000), about students at a New York City ballet school. She next appeared in a series of teen flicks, including Get Over It (2001) and the Britney Spears vehicle Crossroads (2002), and then had a supporting role in the higher-profile movie Drumline (2002). Saldana had a small but memorable part as a female pirate in the surprise hit movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), and she played an immigration agent in Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal (2004), which starred Tom Hanks as a man forced to live in an airport terminal. For the next few years, however, Saldana appeared in only minor movies and TV fare. Saldana landed two iconic roles in 2009. She was cast as Lieut. Uhura in the movie Star Trek, which reimagined the characters of the original TV series, and, through the technique of motion capture, she embodied Neytiri-a high-ranking member of the Na’vi, a humanoid race indigenous to the exoplanetary moon Pandora-in James Cameron’s sci-fi film Avatar. Both movies were major
hits. Saldana portrayed Uhura again in Star Trek into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016). She also played the green-skinned warrior princess Gamora in the sci-fi/superhero blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), a role she reprised for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). In addition to performing in those high-profile movies, Saldana appeared in the comedy Death at a Funeral (2010) and took lead roles in the thrillers The Losers (2010), Colombiana (2011), and Out of the Furnace (2013), among others. She played Rosemary in the 2014 TV miniseries
adaptation of Ira Levin’s suspense novel Rosemary’s Baby and controversially portrayed singer Nina Simone in the badly received biopic Nina (2016). Her later credits included the thrillers Live by Night (2016) and I Kill Giants (2017) and the horror comedy Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020). Spent part of her childhood in the Dominican Republic and is fluent in both English and Spanish
Trained as a dancer before making the transition to acting. Received advice from the original Uhura, actress Nichelle Nichols, on playing the role in J
Abrams’ Star Trek reboot
Was the face of Calvin Klein’s Envy underwear line in 2010
Appeared in a 2015 PSA for the It’s On Us campaignZoe looks directly to Marinette’s eyes and smiles, making Marinette realize Zoe is in love with her. She feels a bit confused at the beggining, but then hugs her and tells Zoe she feels honored of being that person.When she was a child, the Aspect of Twilight bestowed its power on her, and in doing so greatly reduced her aging, to the point that she’s immortal. Thanks to these powers, Zoe is capable of moving through dimensions, ignoring the laws of gravity, and manipulating spacetime itself. Zoe Saldana was born on June 19, 1978 in Passaic, New Jersey, to Asalia Nazario and Aridio Saldana. Her father was Dominican and her mother is Puerto Rican. She was raised in Queens, New York. When she was 10 years old, she and her family moved to the Dominican Republic, where they would live for the next seven years. While living there, Zoe discovered a keen interest in performance dance and began her training at the prestigious ECOS Espacio de Danza Dance Academy where she learned ballet as well as other dance forms. Not only did her training provide an excellent outlet for the enthusiastic and energetic youngster, it would also prove to family moved back to the United States where her love for dance
followed and an interest in theater performance became stronger.

She began performing with the Faces theater troupe which put on plays geared to provide positive messages for teens with themes dealing with issues such as substance abuse and sex. These performances not only gave her valuable experience but also a source of great pride knowing that she was making a difference in the lives of young people like herself. While performing with the Faces troupe and also the New York Youth Theater, Zoe was recruited for a talent agency and her dance training years before coupled with her acting experience greatly helped her land her first big screen role as Eva Rodriguez, the talented and headstrong ballet
dancer in the film Center Stage (2000). Since her professional career began several years ago, Zoe’s talent and determination have allowed her to be involved in blockbuster films and act with major actors, actresses and industry insiders at a pace that very few young professionals have experienced.