Zoe Yadira Saldaña Nazario also known as Zoe Saldana was born on June 19, 1978, in Passaic, New Jersey in the United States. As of 2019, Saldana is the second-highest-grossing film actress of all time. She appeared in Avatar, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, three of the top five highest-grossing films of all time. Her films have grossed over $11 billion around the world. Saldana is the only actress who has appeared in three of the top five highest-grossing films in history.
“There’s no one way to be black. I’m black the way I know how to be.” – Zoe Saldana
Her early years were spent primarily in Jackson Heights, New York. Zoe is bilingual. She was brought up speaking both English and Spanish. Cisely and Mariel are her two sisters. Their father died in an accident when she was nine years old. Following her father’s death, their mother relocated to the Dominican Republic with the children. In the Dominican Republic, Saldana discovered her passion for dancing. She studied various styles of dance at the ECOS Espacio de Danza Academy, but ballet is her first love. Saldana, like her mother and sisters, has Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, which is an auto immune disorder. Saldana and her husband follow a gluten- and dairy-free diet to prevent the disease’s effects. Saldana is a supporter of the microfinance group FINCA International. Saldana is a left-handed actress. She supports left handed people. Saldana took part in the VoteRiders #IDCheck Challenge in 2020 to improve voter ID requirements awareness. Let us get to know more about Zoe Saldana. Stay on the page until the end.
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Net Worth
Zoe Saldana has a net worth of $30 million. After Scarlett Johansson, Zoe Saldana was named the second-highest-grossing film actress of all time in 2019. Zoe paid $8.7 million for a beautiful home in Beverly Hills, California in June 2016. Hidden Valley Estates is a private gated community in which the house is located. Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, and Jennifer Lawrence are among the celebrities who live nearby.
Husband and Family
Saldana got engaged to her longtime partner Keith Britton, an actor and the CEO of My Fashion Database, in June 2010. After eleven years of dating, she and Britton announced their breakup in November 2011. From December 2011 to January 2013, Saldana was in a relationship with actor Bradley Cooper. Saldana began dating Italian artist Marco Perego in March 2013. They tied the knot in London in June 2013. Saldana announced in July 2015 that Perego took her surname after they married. Following that, Zoe was renamed Zoe Saldana-Perego, and Marco was renamed Marco Perego-Saldana. Perego and Saldana have three sons. Saldana has indicated that her children would be multilingual because she and her husband are fluent in Spanish, Italian, and English.
Ethnicity
Zoe Saldana is of Dominican, Puerto Rican, Indian, Irish, Jamaican, and Lebanese descent. Her biological father Aridio Saldana was Dominican. Her mother Asalia Nazario is Puerto Rican. She was raised by her stepfather Dagoberto Galan.
Career
She joined the Faces theatre group in Brooklyn in 1995, where she presented plays with good messages for youth on subjects including substance misuse and adolescent sex. She was a member of the New York Youth Theater, and her performance in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat inspired a talent agency to sign her. After her appearance in an episode of Law & Order in 1999, Saldana became a member of Faces. Saldana made her cinematic debut in Nicholas Hytner’s Center Stage. This 2000 film was about dancers at the imaginary American Ballet Academy in New York City.
She played Anamaria, a pirate who teams up with Will Turner and Mr. Gibbs to face Jack Sparrow for taking her ship in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. She played Dolores Torres, an immigration officer, and Star Trek fan, in The Terminal. She appeared in the films Haven and Temptation, both of which did not do well at the box office.
In Star Trek, she played Nyota Uhura. Saldana played the indigenous hunter Neytiri in James Cameron’s Avatar, which was her second high-profile picture of 2009. It grossed $2.7 billion globally and in the United States and Canada, making it the highest-grossing picture of all time. It was also the first picture to gross more than $2 billion internationally.
Saldana returned as Uhura in Star Trek Into Darkness, the sequel to the Star Trek reboot, in 2013. It was a box office success, just like the last picture. Saldana provided the voice for her character in the Star Trek video game, which was released in 2013. Saldana starred as Gamora in the blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014. The film went on to become the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s third highest-grossing picture. She appeared in Rosemary’s Baby, a television adaption of Ira Levin’s horror novel, premiered in May 2014. The four-hour two-part show was also co-produced by Saldana. Saldana was honored by Elle magazine during The Women in Hollywood Awards in 2014, which honored women for accomplishments in film encompassing all sectors of the motion picture industry, including acting, directing, and producing.
Nina, an unofficial biography about jazz musician Nina Simone released in 2016, featured Saldana. The film chronicles the late singer’s journey to prominence as well as her relationship with her manager, Clifton Henderson. Simone’s family was outraged that Saldana had been given the role. In 2016, she co-starred in Ben Affleck’s criminal drama Live by Night and the science-fiction sequel Star Trek Beyond, both of which were released in July. In May 2017, Saldana reprised her role as Gamora in the Guardians of the Galaxy sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. She reprised her role in Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame, which was released in April 2019. Saldana will play alongside an all-star cast in David O. Russell’s unnamed picture in 2021. In the sequels Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, she will resume her role as Neytiri in 2022 and 2024, respectively.
