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 looks black and Taino Indian but she doesn’t look Spanish at all.
She does speak Spanish.
i see what angel means here in America most black are mixed if u dont believe me just watch pbs African American lives . Anyways I”m am black and proud . Although I’m do not know any family members that come directly from Africa, here in the U.S I’m still considered African American. The same would be for Zoe although her parent were born wherever , her descends originally come from Africa ,as well ( Ray Charles can see that). I myself is brown skinned like Zoe and people always as me what race I am, I tell them black. Although my grandmother is Indian and white, I am still considered african american because of where my descended come from, i have cousins who are white , with blond hair and blue eyes, and there descended come from Africa as well .
Zoe’s Mother And Grandmother:
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Her grandmother looks dominican to me and her mother looks spanish ( like from the caribbean, mixed with white, spaniard and more distant black)
Latino isn’t a race it’s an ethnicity.
Why don’t you people just say she is becoming a very successful artist. That she worked her way up to where she is now an if you’re Latino you should be proud too and try and do better. That’s what you should do instead of insulting people, or saying Dominicans are strange, don’t know much about PR or this and that. I hope none of you talking are Latino because oh my God what a shame. Back then when all the countries were fighting for our independency all of us or at least the majority were invated by Spaniers, Indians, people from France, and African Americans who raped the women and a lot of them were having babies with all these people, therefore we are very mixed and have lots of descendencies, and that is the reason of all the different skin colors of Latinos. Learn your history and if you don’t want to learn it do something smart and stay shut people!
I am just curious, you said “African Americans who raped the women”…what African Americans are you talking about? Was there some time in history that I missed where African Americans were invading Latin America/the Caribbean and raping the women? I know slaves were brought over from Africa to those countries, but I wasn’t aware that some of the slaves from the US went over, too. :o