Actor
Zoe Saldaña
13 films•2002–2025•Action · Adventure · Comedy
78%average critics80%average audience$272.8Mdomestic average
Films
13
2002–2025
Domestic
$3.55B
lifetime
Worldwide
$10.45B
lifetime
Avg opening
$64.9M
3-day
Avg legs
4.16x
opening → total
Return
4.8x
on $2.19B of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 13 films featuring Zoe Saldaña, from Drumline (2002) to Elio (2025), together grossing $3.55B domestic and $10.45B worldwide. The biggest hit is Avatar (2009) at $2.92B worldwide; the biggest opening weekend belongs to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) at $146.5M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Avatar: Fire and Ash | 2025 | $89.2M | $404.0M | 4.53x | $1.49B | A | 68% | #4 |
 Elio | 2025 | $20.8M | $73.0M | 3.50x | $154.0M | A | 83% | #30 |
 Emilia Pérez | 2024 | — | — | — | $7.1M | — | 70% | — |
 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 | 2023 | $118.4M | $358.9M | 3.00x | $845.6M | A | 92% | #4 |
 Avatar: The Way of Water | 2022 | $134.1M | $688.8M | 5.10x | $2.32B | A | 77% | #2 |
 The Adam Project | 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | 68% | — |
 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | 2017 | $146.5M | $389.8M | 2.66x | $869.1M | A | 85% | #5 |
 Star Trek Beyond | 2016 | $59.3M | $158.8M | 2.68x | $441.8M | A- | 86% | #16 |
 Guardians of the Galaxy | 2014 | $94.3M | $333.2M | 3.53x | $770.9M | A | 92% | #3 |
 Star Trek Into Darkness | 2013 | $70.2M | $229.0M | 3.26x | $467.0M | A | 84% | #11 |
 Avatar | 2009 | $77.0M | $785.2M | 9.70x | $2.92B | A | 81% | #1 |
 Guess Who | 2005 | $20.7M | $68.9M | 3.33x | $103.0M | B+ | 41% | #35 |
 Drumline | 2002 | $12.6M | $56.4M | 4.47x | $56.4M | A+ | 81% | #45 |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.9 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
4.8x
$10.44B worldwide on $2.19B of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $3.55BInternational $6.89B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven12.3x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#1Biggest worldwide runsAvatar$2.92B#1Best multipliersAvatar9.73x#1Biggest 6th weekendsAvatar$34.9M#3Biggest 4th weekendsAvatar: The Way of Water$45.8M#4Biggest worldwide runsAvatar: The Way of Water$2.32B#8Biggest domestic runsAvatar: The Way of Water$688.8M#12Fastest to $1B worldwideAvatar: Fire and Ash18 days#17Biggest worldwide runsAvatar: Fire and Ash$1.49B#20Best multipliersAvatar: Fire and Ash4.53x#37Biggest opening weekendsGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2$146.5M
Top 10 of 32 placings across 15 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Series
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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