{"id":250104,"date":"2026-04-16T08:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=250104"},"modified":"2026-04-16T14:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:19:35","slug":"zoe-saldana-named-time-magazine-top-100-most-influential-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2026\/04\/16\/zoe-saldana-named-time-magazine-top-100-most-influential-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Salda\u00f1a named Time Magazine top 100 most influential people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Time Magazine has named actress Zoe Salda\u00f1a to the 2026 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Salda\u00f1a is featured on one of the four worldwide covers for the issue. Salda\u00f1a has repeatedly described herself as a Dominican-American, being the daughter of a Dominican father and Puerto Rican mother. She spent her formative years in Santo Domingo, where she got her first training in the arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tribute for her inclusion was written by Oscar-winning film director James Cameron, who highlighted her status as the highest-grossing actor in history and praised her versatility and pride in her Afro-Latina roots. The recognition follows her 2025 Academy Award win for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Emilia P\u00e9rez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Cameron stated: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo \u2026 How to describe the phenomenon that is Zoe Salda\u00f1a? An Academy Award\u2013winning actor, she has starred in films that together have grossed more than those of any other actor in history, male or female. She is known to many by her vivid, non-human characters: the surly, deadpan Gamora and the ferocious warrior-mother Neytiri. To those close to her, she is the most gracious, loyal, loving, and fiercely protective mother, wife, friend, and all-around incredible human being we know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Through her roles in Star Trek, Emilia P\u00e9rez, and others, she celebrates her Afro-Latina roots with fierce pride and courageous dignity. She can shape-shift before our eyes from heartbreaking vulnerability to the strongest icon of female badassery ever seen. In her work and in life, Zoe moves through the world with grace and beauty, elevating all of us whom she touches. She is one of one in the universe, and I am grateful every day to be among her creative partners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time Magazine posted on Instagram:
\u201cThanks to massive franchises like \u2018Avatar\u2019 and \u2018Guardians of the Galaxy,\u2019 @zoesaldana has become the highest-grossing actor in the history of film. \u201cPeople like me never even imagine breaking a record,\u201d she says. Salda\u00f1a is on the 2026 TIME100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She tells us that she\u2019s focused primarily on promoting the stories of women these days, hopefully by writing and directing films herself. She cites \u2018The Substance\u2019 and \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 as the kinds of female-directed films she would like to usher to the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She spent hours discussing the former film\u2014its themes around the futility of trying to fight aging, its savage humor\u2014with her mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And she went to the steamy romance with a group of girlfriends for a raucous screening, though her husband spent the whole time texting her suggestive photos. \u201cI love the fact that the movie made me smile, and he made me smile.\u201d Both experiences, she said, felt uniquely feminine and too fleeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re complex creatures,\u201d she says, \u201cthat deserve more screentime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time Magazine has named actress Zoe Salda\u00f1a to the 2026 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Salda\u00f1a is featured on one of the four worldwide covers for the issue. Salda\u00f1a has repeatedly described herself as a Dominican-American, being the daughter of a Dominican father and Puerto Rican mother. … <\/p>\n

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