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Spotlight on: Zoe Saldana

20 Oct

~~STAR BIO~~

Zoe Saldana

Name: Zoe Yadira Saldaña Nazario

D.O.B. : June 19, 1978

Occupation: Actress

Home-town: Passaic, New Jersey

Best Known For: Her breakthrough role in the 2000 film “Center Stage”. She later gained prominence for her roles as Anamaria in “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” and Uhura in the 2009 film “Star Trek”, and a starring role as Neytiri in James Cameron‘s “Avatar”. She also had a lead role in the action film “Colombiana“. She is the only actress to have three movies in the box office top 20 for three consecutive weeks. These movies are Avatar, The Losers, and Death at a Funeral.

Before branching off to acting, Zoe spent most of her formative years studying dance.

Heritage: Dominican/Puerto Rican

Zoe Saldana with fiance Keith Britton

Romance: In 2010, her engagement to Keith Britton, her boyfriend of 10 years, was announced.

Britton is also an actor and the CEO of My Fashion Database.

Fashion: Alongside her fiance, Zoe helped to launch the fashion website, Fashion Database (FDB). Commonly referred to as the IMDb of fashion, it allows users to search through ad campaigns, magazine photo spreads, professional profiles and other information about more than 5,000 brands, 60,000 industry workers and 60 different job titles.

Hailed as a fashion icon of this century, Saldana is frequently spotted in the front row at fashion weeks around the globe and remains an impressive presence on the red carpet.

She has been the “covergirl” on various magazines such as GQ, Glamour, Nylon, ELLE, Latina, Women’s Health, and Suede, and has been featured in numerous editorials in Vogue, Prestige, C (California), Esquire and Flaunt. She also was featured in the 2010 Calvin Klein Fall Underwear Ad.

Some of Zoe’s Magazine looks through-out the years…..