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Beautiful Zoe Saldana has built a career playing b----- babes — including Lt. Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek film series, Gamora in the Guardians of the Galaxy flicks and Neytiri in Avatar. Her box office blockbusters have grossed more than $11 billion worldwide — and Saldana, 45, is poised to add to that astonishing total with the recently released Avatar: The Way of Water. She’s reprised her role as the blue-skinned alien heroine in the new movie, which is the second installment of James Cameron’s sci-fi franchise.
Here are ten things you don’t know about the New Jersey–born performer.
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1. Saldana calls herself “threequarters Dominican and one-quarter Puerto Rican” — and is fluent in both English and Spanish.
2. She’s left-handed — just like her two sisters.
3. Her first job was at a fast-food burger joint, and she recalls, “I liked working in the drive-thru.”
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4. Ballet was once her passion, but she admits quitting because she didn’t "have the feet" to be a principal dancer.
5. Saldana carries vitamins in her purse because always forgets to take them in the morning.
6. Her go-to karaoke song is Janis Joplin’s "Piece of My Heart," which she says, “always gets the crowd going.”
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7. Saldana can move her eyeballs in different directions and says, "That’s my claim to fame."
8. Her favorite movie is director Tony Scott’s 1983 vampire flick, The Hunger.
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9. Saldana has Hashimoto’s disease, a treatable autoimmune condition, which affects the thyroid and can cause tiredness, weight gain and muscle weakness.
10. Her biggest fear is drowning.