Zoe Saldaña has taken home her first Academy Award this year, for her role as best supporting actress in Emilia Perez. Thanking her husband in her speech, Saldaña professed her love for Marco Perego Saldaña and his very long, luscious hair – and we’re obsessed.
'To my husband with that beautiful hair,' Zoe said in tears. 'The biggest honour of my life is being your partner, your hung the moon in our beautiful perfect sons, Cy, Bowie and Zen, they fill our skies every night with stars.'
Who is Marco Perego-Saldaña?
An Italian artist born in 1979; Marco is a former professional football player from Italy who moved to New York to pursue art after a career ending injury. Now a producer and director, he’s best known for his work on films The Absence of Eden, Dovecote and Burn to Shine.
Marco and Zoe married within months of meeting, on a flight, in June 2013. ‘I just saw him from behind,’ Zoe said of their meet cute. ‘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.’
At a private ceremony in London, sources close to the family say the wedding was small but super romantic, attended only by close friends and family. After the wedding, Marco adopted to take Zoe’s surname.
Does Zoe Saldaña have children?
They had their first children, twins Cy Aridio and Bowie Ezio, one year later and their third Zen Anton Hilario in 2017. In fact, Zoe told reporters at tonight’s Oscars that she plans to take some time off from acting to spend time with her children, whom are now 11 and eight respectively.
‘I would like to take my kids to school every day and pick them up,’ Zoe told E! News. ‘I would want them to finish this school year with their mama by their side, because they are so resilient, and they have been backing me up along with my husband this entire campaign.’
Zoe and Marco have worked together on few projects, notably Marco’s short film Dovecote in which Zoe produced and starred.