Zoe Saldaña

American actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role as Rita Mora Castro in the musical crime film Emilia Pérez (2024).

Saldaña is known primarily for her work in science fiction film franchises. She has starred in four of the highest-grossing films of all time (Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame), a feat not achieved by any other performer. Films she has appeared in have grossed more than $15 billion worldwide and, as of 2023, she is the second-highest-grossing film actress, and the highest actress overall.

She first gained some prominence for her film roles as Anamaria in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Nyota Uhura in Star Trek (2009) and Neytiri in James Cameron's Avatar (2009). She continued her successful career with films such as Colombiana (2011), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and both Star Trek sequels, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Star Trek Beyond (2016).

In addition to franchise work, Saldaña has starred in the science fiction film The Adam Project and the romantic drama miniseries From Scratch, both for Netflix in 2022. In 2023, she began playing the lead role of a CIA officer in the Paramount+ spy series Special Ops: Lioness.

In March 2013, Saldana began dating Italian artist Marco Perego. They secretly married in June 2013 in London. In July 2015, Saldana revealed that, in a reversal of tradition, Perego adopted her surname upon marriage. Thereafter, Zoe became Zoe Saldana-Perego and Marco became Marco Perego-Saldana. Their children will be Perego-Saldana. Saldana and Perego have three sons together, twins Bowie and Cy (born 2014) and Zen (born 2017).