ACTOR · BORN 1978
Zoe Saldaña
- Born
- 19 June 1978, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
- Known for
- Avatar (2009), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Avengers: Endgame (2019)
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11 Facts About Zoe Saldaña's Life and Family
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Growing up, her favorite teen film was Some Kind of Wonderful (1987).
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Zoe Saldaña likes playing strong female characters. In an interview with a Danish film site, she said she was really looking forward to turning her character Nyota Uhura into a stronger, more kick-ass woman in future Star Trek (2009) sequels.
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She has three sons with her husband Marco Perego: the twins Cy Aridio Perego-Saldana and Bowie Ezio Perego-Saldana (b. 27.11.2014, Los Angeles), who are named after the artist Cy Twombly and the singer David Bowie; and Zen Perego-Saldana (b. 12/12/16).
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On Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003), Zoe Saldaña said she is often mistaken for Thandiwe Newton. Even her own mother once confused the two.
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She was raised in a traditional Roman Catholic home by her Dominican father and Puerto Rican mother, but she rarely speaks publicly about her personal religious practice.
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In June 2013 she married her boyfriend of three months, Marco Perego. They wed in a secret ceremony in London, and after the wedding she decided to take his surname.
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Seven months after giving birth to her twins Cy and Bowie, Zoe Saldaña returned to work to begin filming Star Trek Beyond (2016). She also went back to work two months after giving birth to her son Zen to begin filming Avengers: Infinity War (2018).
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She attended and graduated from Newtown High School in Queens, New York City.
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She began her dance training at the ECOS Espacio de Danza academy, but she describes ballet as her passion. She quit ballet because she couldn't "have the feet," and she had too much pride and ambition to be only in a ballet company.
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When she finished filming I Kill Giants (2017), she was eight months pregnant with her son Zen.
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In an interview with Net-a-Porter's The Edit in July 2016, Zoe Saldaña revealed that she has Hashimoto's thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease, along with her mother and sisters. Saldaña said that she and her husband follow a gluten-free and dairy-free diet to manage the effects of the condition. She also has dyslexia.
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