Zoë Saldana

American actress, producer, writer and dancer, born 19 June 1978 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA.

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. At age 17, Zoe and her family moved back to the United States where her love for dance followed and an interest in theater performance became stronger. Since her professional career began, she has been in blockbuster films with major actors.