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Known for her work in science fiction film franchises, she has starred in four of the highest-grossing films of all time Avatar , Avatar: The Way of Water , Avengers: Infinity War , and Avengers: Endgame. Her first film role was in Center Stage in which she played a ballet dancer. She received early recognition for her work opposite Britney Spears in the road film Crossroads As a child, Nazario was living with her mother in the Dominican Republic , but they immigrated to New York to escape political unrest. She and her two sisters, Cisely and Mariel, were raised bilingual in English and Spanish; the latter was their first language at home.

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Sign In Sign In. New Customer? Create account. 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.

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Zoe Saldana got teary-eyed as she paid tribute to her mother, Asalia Nazario , during a surprise party honoring the matriarch that was filmed for a new, uplifting web series. It focuses on celebrities and the people who've helped change their lives for the better. In a video Saldana shared on her Twitter page on Throwback Thursday, she and her sisters, Mariel and Cisely , express touching words to their mother, who had to make difficult decisions for her family following a horrible tragedy. So, thank you. When the actress was 9 years old, her dad died in a car accident. And he had the best laugh," Saldana recalled in an interview with the U. You would never think the way I laugh belongs to my body. I laugh like an old Latino man.

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Zoe Saldana is loved by millions of people around the world for her roles of Neytiri in Avatar and Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers.

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