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
To P
As far as I concern,Them denying their blackness started with this guy(Rafael Trujillo).Who openly hated being part black,even to the point of putting pancake mix on his face during interviews to look more white.They have been trained to think of themselves as anything other than black,even though may of them clearly look it.He invited white people to the Island to help whiten up the Island etc.Now over the years they kept this stuff going
thats right P
im not sure but isnt like dominican like actually something african but came to the island and maybe spanish people came there and so there language is spanish but maybe that you go way back there africans, i dont kno can som one educate me on dis
Eiblean, actually Brazillian would more often be Portuguese than Spanish (considering most Brazillians speak Portuguese).
As far as Puerto Rican being a race or not, thats a toss up. Not really any one particular thing, so doesnt that make them there own seperate thing? I mean some have more spanish in them, some black, dominican (also some black there) and whatever indiginous people populated the island, so how do you lump that into any one group really? I mean my grandmother is full blooded Puerto Rican born and raised and lived most of her life there. She has blonde hair and a tanish white complection. My grandfather also full blood P.R and he’s brown skinned like “hispanics should look like” as some people choose to put it. I have cousins in P.R who you would swear were black if you saw them. I dont give a damn what anybody says, P.R is its own something (i’ll go with nationality). I mean they speak there own variety of spanish
To julescator
White is a color,not a race.There’s only one race,Human(Homo sapiens).All the rest of the stuff(cultural divides base on color of ones skin etc.)were put in place by people.We haven’t been apart long enough to become different species