Zoë Saldaña
Saldaña in 2011, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Zoë Yadira Saldaña Nazario
Place of Birth: Passaic, New Jersey, U.S.
Date of Birth: June 19, 1978
Ethnicity: Dominican Republic, Puerto Rican, evidently small amount of Lebanese and Haitian
Zoë Saldaña is an American actress and dancer. She has starred as Uhura in the rebooted Star Trek films, Neytiri in the Avatar franchise, and Gamora in the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy/the MCU. She is also known for her roles in the films Center Stage, Get Over It, Crossroads, Drumline, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Terminal, Haven, Guess Who, Constellation, Premium, The Heart Specialist, After Sex, Blackout (2007), Vantage Point, The Skeptic, Death at a Funeral (2010), The Losers, Takers, Burning Palms, Colombiana, The Words, Blood Ties, Out of the Furnace, Infinitely Polar Bear, The Book of Life, Nina (2016), Live by Night, I Kill Giants, Missing Link, Vampires vs. the Bronx, Vivo, The Adam Project, and Amsterdam, and on television’s Rosemary’s Baby, Maya and the Three, and From Scratch.
Zoë is the daughter of Asalia Nazario and Aridio A. Saldaña. She is a black Latina. Her father was born in Cotui Pro Sa, Dominican Republic. Her mother is Puerto Rican. Zoë has described herself as “three quarters Dominican and a quarter Puerto Rican.” She was initially raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, then spending a few years in the Dominican Republic after her father’s death; before moving back to Queens.
She is also said to have some degree of Lebanese and Haitian ancestry. She speaks English and Spanish fluently. Pictures of Zoë’s family members can be seen here.
Zoë is married to Italian artist Marco Perego, with whom she has three children.
Zoë has said:
There’s no one way to be black… I’m black the way I know how to be. You have no idea who I am. I am black. I’m raising black men.
Saldaña and her husband Marco Perego at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in 2015, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
I have always looks at Zoe and saw a regular light brown skinned black woman. Despite what she really is or what she identifies as that’s just how I see her and most of the world. A lot of people still don’t even know that she’s Latina.
If that’s her mother and what I think is her biological father then she’s definitely mixed race/multiracial and her dad definitely looks Lebanese. Both of her parents look very white/Spanish passing while she and her sister look black. It’s funny how genes work. Her mom looks a little more African influenced than her father.
If she chooses to identify as mixed race/not black that’s up to her tbh
UPDATE: So that white looking Latino man is not her biological father. This man is; https://bodyheightweight.com/zoe-saldana-family/
Now it makes sense. Ok so yeah Zoe is definitely a black Afro-Latina with admixture. I’d say her mom is mixed race while her dad was black. So yeah Zoe black XD
“I’m three quarters Dominican and a quarter Puerto Rican, and I do believe that Dominicans and Haitians like to love each other sometimes”
(0:37) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWle2F6CQw
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