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Zoe
was born June 19, 1978, in New Jersey. She was raised in Queens
until the age of 10, when her family moved to the Dominican
Republic. The nimble and bouncy Zoe was a natural at dancing,
and won a scholarship to the Ritmos Espacio de Danza Academy,
where she studied ballet, jazz, and modern and Latin dance.
After her sophomore year of high school, Saldana returned
to the U.S. to finish her studies. In New York she joined
the educational improv theater group FACES Theater Company,
whose skits about drug abuse, domestic violence and sexuality
were aimed at teenagers.
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Her other theater troupe,
the New York Youth Theater, put on a hit rendition of Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. An agent saw promise in Zoe and
signed her on. She premiered to wide audiences in a 1999 episode
of Law & Order.
It was a massive leap to
the big screen after that. Zoe Saldana made her Hollywood debut
as Eva Rodriguez, an angry, foul-mouthed ballet student in the dance
drama, Center Stage (2000). The following year she had a supporting
role in the forgettable teen comedy, Get Over It, starring Kirsten
Dunst and Mila Kunis. She tried her luck at the indie circuit, starring
alongside rapper Nelly in the hip-hop action drama Snipes (2001),
which was featured at the Toronto Film Festival. Having proven herself
successful with young audiences, she was cast as Britney's best
buddy, Kit, in the pop star's film debut, Crossroads (2002). Returning
to independent film, her next project was Drumline (2002), a movie
about a marching band. Though her next role wasn't her biggest,
it was definitely one of the most memorable. She appeared as Anamaria
in 2003's Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
After starring in 2003's
Temptation, a rock musical version of Faust, Zoe Saldana worked
on no less than seven movies. One of these is 2004's The Terminal,
Steven Spielberg's story of an Eastern European immigrant (played
by Tom Hanks) who is denied entry to the United States. Zoe stars
as a tough INS agent. Zoe also reunites with Orlando Bloom (her
Pirates of the Caribbean co-star) in 2004's Haven. She can also
be seen in 2004's Constellation, Dirty Deeds and Blood on a Happy
Face, as well as 2005's Lucy. Zoe Saldana lives in New York with
her mother. If she has a boyfriend, she keeps him very well-hidden.
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