Zoe Saldaña becomes the highest-grossing actor of all time

After different impressively profitable play successful theaters, James Cameron’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” helped crown its prima Zoe Saldaña the queen of the container office.

The 3rd “Avatar” movie boasted $21.3 cardinal successful North American income past week, bringing it to a planetary full of $1.23 billion. With those awesome stats, Saldaña officially surpassed Scarlett Johansson arsenic the highest-grossing histrion of each time.

The Oscar victor has grossed much than $15.47 cardinal astatine the planetary container office, according to container bureau tracking website the Numbers. Johansson lone precocious gained the rubric aft surpassing her “Avengers” co-star Samuel L. Jackson with the merchandise of past summer’s “Jurassic World Rebirth.”

What helped buoy Saldaña to the apical is the information that the 47-year-old histrion stars successful the 3 highest-grossing films of each time: 2009’s “Avatar” ($2.9 billion), 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” ($2.8 billion) and 2022’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” ($2.3 billion).

Saldaña is besides the lone histrion to look successful 4 movies that brought successful implicit $2 cardinal worldwide. (2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War” grossed $2.05 billion.)

Last twelvemonth proved that Saldaña’s endowment exceeded the realm of popcorn movies erstwhile she nabbed her archetypal Academy Award for her supporting relation successful the arguable philharmonic “Emilia Pérez.” Her triumph marked the archetypal clip an histrion with Dominican roots had won an Oscar.

“I americium a arrogant kid of migrant parents, with dreams and dignity and hardworking hands,” she said done tears portion accepting the grant for supporting actress. “And I americium the archetypal American of Dominican root to judge an Academy Award, and I cognize I volition not beryllium the last.”

Saldaña cemented her Oscar triumph portion side-stepping criticisms of the movie — namely regarding its portrayals of Mexicans and transgender radical — arsenic good arsenic the ungraded that surrounded “Emilia Pérez” co-star Karla Sofía Gascón, erstwhile her violative tweets with anti-Muslim, anti-diversity and racist connection resurfaced.