A trained dancer who moved with her family from the New York City borough of Queens to the Dominican Republic at age 10, dark-haired beauty Zoe Saldana attended a preeminent arts school in her adopted nation before returning to the United States as a teen. The charismatic natural joined performance troupes in NYC including FACES Theater Co., a group presenting improvisational and educational skits for teens and New York Youth Theater, where her role in the chorus of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" caught the attention of an agent. Saldana had an early TV role on a 1999 episode