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 (2002), 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, Amsterdam, The Absence of Eden, and Emilia Pérez; and on television’s Rosemary’s Baby (2014), Maya and the Three, From Scratch, and Special Ops: Lioness.
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
there are “black” puerto ricans and dominicans. so just because it says Domincan and Puerto Rican it doesn’t automatically mean “not black”…you have to understand the make up of caribbean people. all of these places had slaves and as a result there is a lot of african in the blood lines.
She is black, she is afro-hispanic, bout of my parents are african american & shes alot darker then me.
So being dark makes u black u sound like a huge ignorant fuck….im indian and dark …no afican background…where r u fromwisconsin where u dont see any diversity??? Smdh go read or somethimg
being dark does not automtacially make you black…but but being a black puerto rican or dominican does…and thats what she is.
Zoe is not just dark, she actually looks like an everyday black woman. And dont be fooled by the straightened hair, it is just straightened and flat ironed like Halle Berry, who flat irons her kinky hair evey day (that is why she has to keep it short due to constant breakage from heat). Dominicans are very very good at straightening African textured hair, more so than African Americans. Their salons can get black hair Indian straight believe me, I dont know how they do it, but they do.
I am a black South American with kinky curly hair and when I come from the Dominican slaon, I look half Indian (lol), its true looks have alot to do with hair texture. By the way,. my grandmother is part American Indian.
LaBunny, Zoe is a black woman and has always stated so. You sound jealous. Indians have denied being “black” for centuries to get ahead and cater to white Europeans. But DNA shows that the majority of Indians from the continent have African DNA. Everyone came from Africa, Indians are believed to also descend from Ethiopians who migrated to the middle east then to India then mixed with Europe. Dark skin is a sign of Africa as well as light skin is a sign of Europe.
Columbia is full of black people. I am a black South American myself with indigenous Indian heritage.
skin color doesn’t mean shit, you fuckin idiot! there are dark-skinned mixed people. not all mixed people are light-skinned. mixed comes in many different shades. thank god this is just the fuckin internet, bc if this was rl i’d probably knock the shit out of the retarded people that post some ignorant and stupid shit. it’s time to put the crack pipe down bitches
learn about malcom X teaching.when i was young i had a lot of self-hate also.once my eyes were open i never looked back.
i think she is alittle african american she has to be.
wow you’re fuckin stupid. are you forreal? like really tho???? the fuck???!!!! you think the only black people are african americans? bitch you are stupid af. did you drop out of high school? the dominican republic has black people there. gotdamn the stupidity on this site is so pathetic
I hope for her sake she is not even 1% african. Yuck!!! :O)
@ TheTruth August 22, 2011 at 1:23 pm ” I hope for her sake she is not even 1% african. Yuck!!! :O)”
Truth be told everyone has African DNA in them. The original Man Adam was of African decent, so The Truth you are African!!!!
Of course she as african in her ,you cant tell? Someone as racist as you should be able to tell! Hey you may have slept with a couple of Africans… because you couldnt tell they were black lol @ the truth!
Lolol
twobesure. this lowlife is obviously racist. To teach someone like that someting is a waste. Yes i learned that toobut it was abt Eve and it was on a link from ancestry.com. they broke it dwn to where ppl are located now w the nationalities.
omg these comments just get worse and worse….so r u part of the KKK the truth???? You are YUCK for having that much hate smfh
Are you retarded? Of course she has A LOT of African. Can’t you tell ? You stupid or blind? Just cause she’s hispanic doesn’t mean she can’t be black there are plenty of black hispanics
she’s probably like 50% black. that’s not a lot imo