{"id":406035,"date":"2026-01-14T05:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/406035\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T05:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:38:12","slug":"zoe-saldana-is-now-the-highest-grossing-actor-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/406035\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Salda\u00f1a is now the highest-grossing actor of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Zoe Salda\u00f1a is in a movie, especially if her character is blue or green, it tends to make a lot of money. In fact, it often makes the most money. Salda\u00f1a is the only actor to appear in all three of the highest-grossing films of all time: Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, and Avatar: The Way Of Water. Now, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/box-office-january-12-2025-avatar-primate-greenland-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar: Fire And Ash also makes a boatload of money<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/zoe-saldana-highest-grossing-actor-of-all-time-avatar-3-1236619322\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Variety reports<\/a> that the actor has officially become the highest-grossing of all time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trade reports that her films have amassed a gross of $15.47 billion, citing site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-numbers.com\/person\/126330401-Zoe-SaldaA-a#tab=summary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Numbers<\/a>. Salda\u00f1a passed fellow MCU actors Scarlett Johansson and Samuel L. Jackson to take the spot. Outside of Endgame and the Avatar films, Avengers: Infinity War and the three Guardians Of The Galaxy films also contributed to the tally, as well as her three appearances as Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek films released between 2009 and 2016, which also grossed over a billion dollars. Salda\u00f1a was also in the film that started the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise, The Curse Of The Black Pearl, which grossed over $650 million when it opened in 2003. Though her future in the MCU seems iffy, there seems to be a decent chance that there\u2019ll be more Avatar movies coming, so there\u2019s a good chance that we\u2019ll see this tally continue to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Zoe Salda\u00f1a is in a movie, especially if her character is blue or green, it tends to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-406035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}