Zoe Saldana

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Zoe Saldana at San Diego Comic-Con International (2016)

Zoe Saldana (* 19th June 1978 as Zoe Yadira Saldaña Nazario in Passaic , New Jersey ) is an American actress and film producer with Dominican roots.

life and career

When Saldana was nine years old, her father died in a traffic accident. After that, her mother returned with the family - the previously Yorker New District Queens lived - in their homeland, the Dominican Republic back to where Saldana ballet , jazz , Latin dance and modern dance studied. After moving back to the United States, she began studying acting. In New York she visited the FACES Theater Company, which puts on plays on socially critical topics, which are intended to bring young people closer to the problems of society.

In 1999, Saldana made her first appearance as an actress on the television series Law & Order . After supporting roles in Pirates of the Caribbean (2003) and Terminal (2004), she received the role of Uhura in Star Trek in 2009 . In 2009 , she lent her gestures , facial expressions and voice to the animated character Neytiri in James Cameron's Avatar . In 2011, she played the lead role of Cataleya Restrepo in Luc Besson's action - thriller Colombiana . In 2014 she appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy and has since become an integral part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with her role as Gamora .

In November 2011, Saldana separated from her fiancé Keith Britton, with whom she had been in a relationship for eleven years and had been engaged since June 2010. They remain business partners on their joint fashion website. She was then in an on-off relationship with actor Bradley Cooper from December 2011 to January 2013 . In June 2013 she married the Italian Marco Perego in London . She gave birth to twin sons in late November 2014. In February 2017 they became parents of a son again.

Trivia

Filmography (selection)

Saldana at the 2010 Academy Awards

Web links

Commons : Zoe Saldana  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. In which she plays a Trekkie .
  2. ^ Separation report Nov. 2011 ( Memento from November 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on gmx.de or “My Fashion Data Base” - joint web project with former fiancé Keith Britton.
  3. http://bossip.com/705276/swirly-break-ups-zoe-saldana-and-bradley-cooper-split-again/
  4. http://m.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/zoe-saldana-marries-marco-perego-in-secret-wedding-ceremony-2013119
  5. ^ Stephanie Webber: Zoe Saldana Gives Birth, Welcomes Twin Boys (...). In: US Weekly. January 2, 2015, accessed March 29, 2015 .
  6. Price 2010 on welt.de
  7. Zoe Saldana got her star on the Walk of Fame. (No longer available online.) May 4, 2018, archived from the original on May 5, 2018 ; accessed on May 5, 2018 .