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
hispanic is NOT a race either !!! lol
Hey folks, Puerto Rican is NOT a RACE nor is Domnican. She is hispanic or hispanic and Black – those are races! Just like American is NOT a race it’s a nationality. Also, German, Irish and Italian are NOT races – they are nationalities – the race is White!
Hispanic isn’t a race either.
To Julescator
White is not a Race on its own,it’s one color of the human race.You guys have got to get this through your heads,we are NOT different species;we are the same just different colors
Don’t you wonder what we would use to pick each other apart if we weren’t different skin tones? We would find something though, i’m positive.
Mike, just because they look very different doesn’t mean she isnt PR. I wuld say she probably has some Afro something or other genes as do MANY hispanics (especially near that region).
THE GIRL IS SPANISH. HER NAME, AND SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE’S AFRO PUERTO RICAN AND DOMINICAN. I’M MIXED WITH CHOCTAW AND CHEROKEE NATIVE AMERICAN, IRISH, AFRICAN AMERICAN, MY FATHER’S PUERTO RICAN, AND I HAVE A LITTLE WHITE IN ME. MY SKIN IS A RED/BROWN COLOR AND I HAVE VERY CURLY HAIR. MY BROTHER IS LIGHTER THAN ME, WITH CURLY HAIR AS WELL. I CONSIDER MYSELF MIXED. I EMBRACE ALL THAT IS ME, MY CULTURES AND EVERYTHING. SPANISH PEOPLE COME IN MANY COLORS: BRAZILIANS, CUBANS, DOMINICANS, PUERTO RICANS. BECAUSE THEY HAVE AFRICAN ANCESTRY WITH EUROPEAN ANCESTRY AS WELL. INDIAN PEOPLE FROM INDIA ALSO COME IN MANY SHADES AS WELL, JUST LIKE AFRICAN AMERICANS