“You need 100% commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to practice eight hours straight.”
Birthname:
Zoë Yadira Saldaña Nazario
Assets:
Long legs, incredible body
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Introduction
Zoe Saldana first made waves when she co-starred in the otherwise horrendous film Crossroads alongside Britney Spears. The film was indeed a crossroad; Spears soon began her fall into insanity, while Saldana's career took off.
Life Story
Saldana was born in New Jersey to Dominican parents, but was raised in Queens, New York. As a youth, her father died which caused her family to move back to the Dominican Republic. There she remained until her mother decided to move back to The States after her sophomore year in high school. Back in the US, Saldana enrolled in acting classes while flipping burgers at a local Burger King. In retrospect, Saldana may be the hottest Burger King Employee of all time. She got her big break in 2000 with a role in the dance movie Centerstage and never looked back. Her former fellow Burger King employees are still reeling from this loss.
In 2002 she was in two movies with two of the most annoying people in entertainment. The first was the aformentioned Crossroads alongside Spears. The movie was about three hot girls who take a roadtrip to "find themselves" before realizing what they were looking for all along was right inside of them. The second was Drumline which co-starred the perennially annoying Nick Cannon as a star drummer chasing the way-out-of-his-league-even-in-real-life Saldana. The following year she had a part in the extremely successful movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Over the next few years she worked steadily in films such as The Terminal (2004), Guess Who (2005), Ways of the Flesh (2006) and Vantage Point (2008), as well as the short lived TV series "Six Degrees."
Next up for Saldana was the blockbuster movie Star Trek (2009) where she played the part of Lt. Uhura. One scifi blockbuster was not enough for Zoe so she followed that up with Avatar (2009).
Zoe is slated to be in a boat load of films in 2010 including Takers (2010), Burning Palms (2010), The Losers (2010) and Death at a Funeral (2010). She will also reprise her role as Uhura in the Star Trek sequel.
Stuff she’s done, ie: movies, tv, albums:
Drumline, Crossroads, Dirty Deeds, Guess Who, Pirates of the Caribbean-Curse of the Black Pearl, Star Trek 2009, The Terminal, Six Degrees, Vantage Point, Avatar, Center Stage
Dudes she has worked with:
The immortal Sisqo, Johnny Depp, Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Tom Hanks, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, John Cho, Simon Pegg, James Cameron, Sam Worthington
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