Actress Zoe Saldana poses on the red carpet during the German premiere of the movie “Star Trek” in Berlin, April 16, 2009.    REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY ENTERTAINMENT HEADSHOT) GERMANY

Career

Saldana was still a member of the program when she got her first screen experience on an episode of Law & Order, which aired October 13, 1999. She left school after her major film debut in Center Stage (2000), which subsequently led to appearances in the Britney Spears vehicle Crossroads (2002) and the drama Drumline (2002). She played the pirate, Anamaria, in the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and has appeared in a number of television shows and movies, including The Terminal (2004) and Guess Who (2005). Saldana was also the lead in the video for Juan Luis Guerra’s song “La llave de mi corazón”, and has recently been cast as Uhura in the upcoming Star Trek movie.