Zoe Saldana is now reputedly the highest-grossing movie star of all time, but how much do you know about this iconic actress?
News has emerged that Zoe Saldana is now the highest-grossing actor of all time – that is the total taken at the worldwide box office by movies that she has starred in over the years.
Zoe has been a lead actress in many films in the past 20 years, but these include some of the biggest of all time, including Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, and she has appeared in all three Avatar films, which have grossed more than $6.5 billion in total. She also appeared in several Star Trek films.
These huge films have helped to propel Zoe to the top of an illustrious list, just ahead of fellow MCU alumni Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson and Robert Downey Jr.
But how much do you know about Zoe Saldana? Here are some facts that you might not know.
She originally wanted to be a ballet dancer
Growing up, Zoe developed a love of dance, especially ballet. She spent some time living in the Dominican Republic as a child and was enrolled in the ECOS Espacio de Danza Academy, where she studied various forms of dance.
Ballet was Zoe’s passion and she did hope to be become professional, but, as she admitted in an interview with Vanity Fair, didn’t have the feet for it, and didn’t want to just be in the corps de ballet – the dancers who work in the background to the main performers.
Dance helped Zoe to get her big break
But Zoe’s dance training did help her after she turned her attention to acting. Initially, she performed with the New York Youth Theater and was spotted by a talent agency after appearing in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
Zoe’s first film role was in Center Stage in 2000, where she played Eva Rodriguez, a ballet student – so that earlier training came in handy.
She is raising her children to be multi-lingual
Zoe is married to Italian artist Marco Perego and they have three sons – twins Cy and Bowie and Zen. The children are being brought up to be multi-lingual – speaking English, Spanish and Italian – as those are the languages that she and her husband use.
Zoe has Hashimoto’s disease
In an interview in 2016, Zoe revealed that she has the autoimmune condition Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, which can cause tiredness and muscle weakness. Zoe’s mother and two sisters also have the condition.
To combat the effects of the condition, Zoe and her husband stick to a gluten- and dairy-free diet.
She is the only actress to appear in four $2 billion-plus grossing movies
As mentioned, Zoe has been in some of the biggest movies of all time, in terms of box office takings. Indeed, she is the only actress to date to appear in four movies that have grossed more than $2 billion at the worldwide box office. The movies are: Avatar (2009), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022).
Zoe has a high net worth
As you might expect from an actress who has starred in some of the biggest movies of all time, Zoe has amassed a high net worth. Celebrity Net Worth records that Zoe’s net worth is $60 million.
Over the years, she has invested in property, including buying a mansion in Beverley Hills, California for $8.7 million in 2016 – she sold it in 2024 for $10 million. She has another home in California that she paid $17 million for.
