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Zoë Saldaña calls out 'entitled' America for erasing accents on her name

Zoë Saldaña says people have been getting her name wrong for years - (Getty)

Zoë Saldaña has shared a long-felt frustration over her name.

The 46-year-old actress, who has Dominican and Puerto Rican heritage and was born in Passaic, New Jersey, says American officials left the accents on her surname off of her birth certificate in what she claims was an act of “entitlement”.

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