Zoe Saldana (born Zoë Yadira Zaldaña Nazario; June 19, 1978) is an American actress.

Saldana was born in New Jersey to a Puerto Rican mother and a Dominican father from the Dominican Republic. She was raised in Queens, New York, and her first languages are English and Spanish. When Saldana was nine, her father died in a car accident, and Saldana's mother moved her and her sisters back to the Dominican Republic. While there, Saldana enlisted in a ballet class and gained experience Read more...

Saldana was still a member of the program when she got her first screen experience on an episode of Law & Order that first aired October 13, 1999. Saldana has been cast as an African American woman making her one of several Latina women that have done the same thing. She left school after her major film debut in 2000's Center Stage, which she followed up in 2002 with appearances in the Britney Read more...