[.net] How to split a string content into an array of strings in PowerShell?

I have a string that has email addresses separated by semi-colon:

$address = "[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]"

How can I split this into an array of strings that would result as the following?

[string[]]$recipients = "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]"

[string[]]$recipients = $address.Split('; ',[System.StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)

Remove the spaces from the original string and split on semicolon

$address = "[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]"
$addresses = $address.replace(' ','').split(';')

Or all in one line:

$addresses = "[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]".replace(' ','').split(';')

$addresses becomes:

@('[email protected]','[email protected]','[email protected]')