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"  She smacked Johnny Depp across the face in the first Pirates of the Caribbean and barreled into Britney in Crossroads, but somehow Zoe Saldana\u2014an extraordinary performer who can pull off comedy (Guess Who), hardcore drama (the devastating, unjustly ignored Haven), and everything in between\u2014crept up on the rest of us. Credit her refusal to play the tabloid game and the quiet confidence of her approach to acting, her ability, and her willingness, to disappear into a role. But go back and watch Saldana&amp;#039;s debut as a tough-girl ballerina in Nicholas Hytner&amp;#039;s Center Stage, her flirty philosophy major\u2013slash\u2013majorette in Drumline, even her jilted rich girl in Crossroads, and you can see an A-list star in the making\u2014practicing her craft, biding her time, patiently preparing for a year like this one.  After setting phasers on stun with her Trekkie-pleasing turn as Lt. Uhura in Star Trek (never have pointy ears been so sexy as when she grabbed Spock&amp;#039;s with both hands and laid one on him), she stars this month as Neytiri, a blue-skinned warrior from the planet Na&amp;#039;vi in James Cameron&amp;#039;s highly anticipated Avatar. And as every fanboy worthy of his ComicCon laminate already knows, she&amp;#039;s currently in Puerto Rico shooting The Losers, a big-screen adaptation of a cult comic book about a rogue special-ops team, in which she plays Aisha, &amp;quot;a badass gun-savvy firecracker,&amp;quot; as she puts it. The geeks will swoon again, not that Saldana minds. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sorry, but it&amp;#039;s sexy to know that guys find you attractive,&amp;quot; she admits. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s empowering.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s so wonderful is she&amp;#039;s able to do these things that require incredible strength, but do them in a delicate, feminine way,&amp;quot; notes Sigourney Weaver, Saldana&amp;#039;s Avatar costar. &amp;quot;I think after people see her playing this amazing woman warrior, she&amp;#039;s going to be the action hero to beat for many years to come.&amp;quot;  CLICK HERE TO BUY THE NOVEMBER WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD ISSUE NOW! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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