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
Pic of Zoe and her sisters again. I have Aunts that look like them, they look American Indian/Black African primarily. I dont see much white European at all.
Here is the link:
http://touch.theybf.com/all/2011-11-29-zoe-saldana-and-her-sisters-in-w-magazine-paula-patton-covers-jezebel-magazine
If she is american indian and black she is mixed…. And dominicana are black + white + american indian most of time they have more….. She is mixed.
@noneofyourbussiness ALL BLACK PEOPLE ARE MIXED, GET IT
Only direct mixture counts as mixed. Insignificant distant ancestry doesn’t really make a difference.
@Andrew check this pic with Zoe Saldanas and her sisters. The pic you posted was lightened.
http://m.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/zoe-saldana-celebrates-pregnant-sister-mariel-at-baby-shower-pictures-2014226
I am sorry but I dont consider these woman “black”.
@andrew well they consider themselves black. As they have stated.
She’s mixed race, end of story. No one is arguing about their own self identification. Many mixed people identify as black.
Agree! She’s mixed! End of story!
@andrew her mom looks like a black and white mixture and her dad is black, that still would make Zoe majority black .
She does NOT look full black. She is mixed – end of story. Google her parents.
Most black people in the new world (Carribean and America) have some admixture and parents or grandparents who look like Zoe Saladanas parents. My point is the Zoe is a majority black person and not mixed as in the sense of Halle Berry or Mariah Carey. Her parents are both of Substantial African descent.
right, her mom is “black”…
http://www.arogundade.com/Resources/zoe-saldana-moth.jpeg
@Andrew she looks like my black grandmother. I dont think youve seen a variety of black carribeans.
she’s not black, she’s probably a triracial woman, not even a mulatto
Midori is an idiotic Afrocentrist, just ignore the stupid bitch. She pulls things out of her ass and says the most ignorant things. It’s so obvious her mother is not just black.
I meant Afrocentric.
@noneofyourbussiness, Zoe Saldana has repeatedly stated in the media that she is a “black woman” she has said that herself. What else do you need? And your insults are foolish because if Zoe Saldana is not black to you then no black people in America and the Carribean are black either. My comments are completely sensible and yours are not. You are resorting to insults due to ignorance.
@noneofyourbussiness, your reading skills are very bad.I said her mother looks like a black white admixture and her dad is black. Id rather be an Afrocentrist than a ignocentrist.
@midori29: Listen up, idiot. A lot of mixed race celebrities identify as black, but does that mean thet’re just black? Halle Berry has a white mother, but she still considers herself a black woman. Zoe can say she’s black all she wants, but genetically and biologically she is mixed.