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
she said she’s black. people are going by where her family is from but not their ethnicity. they’re from the west Indian islands or Caribbean but instead of saying that they say puerto rico and domincan republic. its basically how you were brought up, i know i wasn’t brought up to think my ethnicity was latin, my fathers family 3 generations back are from cuba. my mother is black and asian but ethnicity was never an issue with both of them growing up. on my father side they consider themselves black even though looking at them they’re clearly biracial people. Back in the old days on islands like DR you were killed for considering yourself to be a black person, which is why you get now majority of spanish speaking Caribbeans denying any heritage, association or obvious knowledge of black in their own family or in themselves. there are those that do but are look at like their crazy or stupid for thinking that their black. if DR didn’t have those crazy murderous dictators ruling then alot of people wouldn’t have died and majority of people on DR would ‘ve considered themselves black and you probably wouldn’t be hearing all the “im not black im spanish” or “im not caribbean im from DR” or” puerto rico” crap.
She is dating Bradley Cooper.
They will have Puerto Rican, Dominican, Italian, and Irish babies. Half white and half Afro-Latina! :D
They broke up a long time ago. She’s married an Italian man.
she is hispanic point blank…… HELlOO!!!! you ignorant prejudice fucks are worried about the wrong thing….. WAKE UP! we all bleed the same color and all will be judged at the end of time!!! whether your black,white, hispanic or mexican etc….
Whether your black , white, hispanic, mexican
First off black and white are races.
Hispanic isn’t a race just a culture.
Mexican is a nationality. You can be white , black and still Mexican
She is black or predominantly African ancestry.
Get over it
Shes gorgeous,exotic looking. She looks african because she is an afrolatino.just like we have african americans in the united states there are millions of african americans that like in latin american as well.that is why they are darker skinned but yet speak spanish because they live in latin america.
Shes Latina but Obviously she has african blood in her. Get it toghether, folks!