What to Know About Zoe Saldaña's Husband Marco Perego and Their Sweet Love Story
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Zoe Saldaña's husband Marco Perego is more than just the beautiful arm candy next to the charismatic and stunning actress. The relationship between the two shows a level of equality not seen in many marriages, Hollywood or not. Perego demonstrates a security in himself that allows him to appreciate being married to a woman as strong as Saldana.
Still, many people do not know a lot about Perego and his relationship with Saldana. As she is constantly in the spotlight, we admit we’re extremely curious about the man beside her!
Here is everything you need to know about Zoe Saldana’s husband Marco Perego.
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Who is Zoe Saldaña’s husband?
Zoe Saldaña’s husband is Marco Perego Saldaña. Perego is a former professional soccer player and artist from Italy. The pair first met in 2013 and married that same year.
Is Marco Perego Italian?
Marco Perego Saldaña is Italian, born and raised. However, he moved to New York City to pursue a career as an artist. An avid traveler, he even met his wife Zoe Saldaña on a flight.
How old is Marco Perego?
Marco Perego Saldaña’s birthday is March 1, 1979, making him 43 years old as of this writing. He was born in Salò, Italy, the son of a waiter and a stay-at-home mother. As a result, the artist came from humble beginnings. His professional soccer career was cut short when he suffered a career-ending injury at the age of 21, leading to his pivot into the art world.
Zoe Saldaña was born on June 15, 1978, making her 44 as of this writing.
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How did Zoe Saldaña meet her husband?
Zoe Saldaña has claimed she was skeptical about love at first sight—until she met her future husband Marco Perego on a flight to New York. She recalled to USA Today in 2015, "I just saw him from behind. It was 6:30 in the morning, I was on a flight to New York. And I can't even describe to you, it was a vibration. He turned in that moment, because he felt the vibration as well."
Even though that was the first time the two met in person, Saldaña was already aware of Perego—and had been since 2008. In 2014, she told The Hollywood Reporter, “I've known my partner for five years. I knew of his work. I knew of him. Then we met.”
The couple married after just three months of dating, in June 2013, in a secret wedding ceremony in London.
Does Zoe Saldaña speak Italian fluently?
Zoe Saldaña does speak fluent Italian, just like her character in the Netflix movie From Scratch. In fact, in addition to Italian, Saldaña actually speaks Spanish, French and English (of course).
Did Marco Perego change his last name?
Marco Perego Saldana famously took his wife Zoe Saldaña’s last name when they got married in 2013. Zoe Saldaña has spoken at length about this decision, telling InStyle, “I told him, 'If you use my name, you're going to be emasculated by your community of artists, by your Latin community of men, by the world. But Marco looks up at me and says [she puts on his Italian accent], 'Ah, Zoë, I don't give a sheet.'"
She also talked about the reasoning behind the decision with Us Weekly, “He liked it. He wanted to really represent being a part of my family and represent my father’s legacy. He respected the fact that he didn’t want me to have to give up my name just because that’s the norm.”
In a Facebook post, the actress had even more to say.
“Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers," she wrote. "I felt proud that my husband decided to take my last name as his own ... and I his. … he also asked me, 'Why not? What are you so afraid of?' And it made me wonder ... What am I so afraid of? Why is it so surprising, shocking- eventful that a man would take his wife's surname? Women have never been asked if its ok for them to give up their names — why doesn't that make the news? Men, you will not cease to exist by taking your partner's surname. On the contrary — you'll be remembered as a man who stood by change. I know our sons will respect and admire their father more because their father lead by example."
You gotta love a man secure enough in himself to elevate the woman he loves!
Their children bear a combination of their last names, with the hyphenated Perego-Saldaña.
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What are some of Marco Perego's movies?
Marco Perego Saldaña is also a producer, writer and director in addition to being an artist. He wrote, produced and directed the 2022 movie Keyhole Garden, starring his wife Zoe Saldaña. In addition, he wrote and directed the short film Burn to Shine. He acted as an executive producer on 2016’s Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story and as a producer on the 2014 short film Me + Her.
He also appeared alongside his wife, actor Michael B. Jordan, Alicia Keys and Miguel in Keys and Miguel’s music video for their song “Show Me Love.”
Do Zoe Saldaña and Marco Perego have children?
Zoe Saldaña has three sons with her husband Marco Perego Saldaña. The actress gave birth to twins Cy and Bowie in 2014 and her youngest son Zen in 2016. She has stated that she is now done having children and does not intend to try for a daughter.
She told Us Weekly, “I pulled my feminist card out. I [told my husband], ‘No. The answer is no.’ I’m like, ‘You only give me boys so just get over it. You need to come to terms with this.’ … It’s like, ‘Let’s raise amazing, elegant men that will bring home even better women,’ you know? That’s it.”
The progressive couple are raising their children in a gender-neutral environment. She told Us Weekly, “We grew up in a world in a time that it was very gender divided and also [with] our cultural backgrounds. But here we are in the new world. We’re in America. … Like my mother always said, being an immigrant here in the States, we brought with us in a suitcase of life, all the things that are worth preserving, and you leave behind all the things that were the reasons as to why you left.”
