biography of Zoey Deutch
biography of Zoey Deutch
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Zoey Francis Chaya Thompson Deutch
November 10, 1994 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Zoey Francis Chaya Thompson Deutch :
(/dɔɪtʃ/ DOYTCH; born November 10, 1994) is an American actress and producer. The younger daughter of director Howard Deutch and actress-director Lea Thompson, Deutch made her acting debut in television during the early 2010s, with roles on Disney Channel's The Suite Life on Deck (2010–2011) and CW's Ringer (2011–2012).
Making her film debut in 2012, Deutch received recognition for her leading roles in the films Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), Before I Fall (2017), Flower (2017), Set It Up (2018), and Buffaloed (2019). She also played supporting roles in the comedy horror Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), the historical thriller The Outfit (2022), and the legal thriller Juror No. 2 (2024). After headlining the streaming projects The Politician (2019–2020), Not Okay, and Something from Tiffany's (both 2022), she made her Broadway debut in a revival of the Thorton Wilder play Our Town (2024). She has since starred as Jean Seberg in the biographical film Nouvelle Vague (2025).
Early life :
Deutch was born on November 10, 1994, in Los Angeles, to actress Lea Thompson and director Howard Deutch. She has one sister, Madelyn Deutch, who is also an actress. Other close relatives of hers include her maternal grandmother, musician Barbara Barry Thompson, paternal grandfather, music executive Murray Deutch, and grand-uncle actor Robert Walden. Deutch's father, from New York, is of Jewish heritage, whereas her mother, from Minnesota, is of partial Irish ancestry. Deutch identifies as Jewish and had a bat mitzvah.
She started taking acting classes at the age of five. Deutch studied at Oakwood School, Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and at the Young Actors Space. She majored in theater at L.A. County High School for the Arts.
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Zoey Deutch was born in Los Angeles, California. She is steadily and boldly building her body of work with dynamic roles as both actor and producer.
Most recently, Deutch can be seen in Not Okay (2022) for Searchlight/Hulu, as well as Something from Tiffany's (2022) for Amazon/Hello Sunshine. She starred in and produced both films. She can also be seen in Focus Feature's film The Outfit (2022) from director Graham Moore, starring opposite Mark Rylance and Dylan O'Brien. She earned a nomination for "Best Supporting Performance" at the 2022 BIFA for this role.
Next up, Deutch will re-team with writer Katie Silberman for their second romantic comedy, Most Dangerous Game. Deutch and Silberman previously worked together on the Netflix hit, Set It Up (2018).
Additional credits include Magnolia Pictures' dramedy, Buffaloed (2019), for which Deutch also executively produced, Sony Pictures' Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) alongside Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, and Emma Stone, Max Winkler's Flower (2017), The Year of Spectacular Men (2017) alongside her sister Madelyn Deutch and directed by their mother, Lea Thompson. Deutch also served as producer. Other credits include Rebel in the Rye (2017) opposite Nicholas Hoult; Before I Fall (2017), the adaptation of the 2010 young adult novel of the same name; Why Him? (2016) alongside James Franco and Bryan Cranston and directed by John Hamburg; Dirty Grandpa (2016) opposite Robert De Niro and Zac Efron and directed by Dan Mazer; Vincent N Roxxy (2016) opposite Emile Hirsch and Zoe Kravitz; Good Kids (2016); Beautiful Creatures (2013) opposite Alden Ehrenreich; and The Weinstein Company's Vampire Academy (2014). She also starred in in Ryan Murphy's Netflix series The Politician (2019) alongside Ben Platt and Gwyneth Paltrow, with the first season receiving a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy".
Career :
2010–2013: Early work
Deutch began her career in 2010, at the age of 15, with a role on the Disney Channel original series The Suite Life on Deck as Maya, Zack Martin's love interest during the third season. From 2011 to 2012, she played recurring role of Juliet Martin in The CW thriller drama Ringer. She debuted on the big screen in Mayor Cupcake (2011) alongside her mother and sister. Deutch booked a small scene in The Amazing Spider-Man but director Marc Webb cut the scene, although it is included on the DVD.
Her big screen breakthrough came in the supporting role of Emily Asher, alongside Emma Thompson, Thomas Mann and Alden Ehrenreich in the 2013 fantasy-romance-drama Beautiful Creatures based on a well-known young adult novel of the same name written by authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl and the first book in the Caster Chronicles series. Deutch also appeared on NCIS, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, ABC Family's Switched at Birth[20] and in Marc Cherry's television pilot Hallelujah.
2014–2017: Breakthrough :
Deutch starred as Rosemarie Hathaway in Vampire Academy (2014), based on the first book of best-selling young adult six book series written by Richelle Mead. The film marked her first appearance as a lead. Jordan Hoffman of the New York Daily News termed her performance in the film as breakout lead performance. In January 2014, it was announced that she would star as lead opposite Tyson Ritter in Randall Miller's Midnight Rider, a biopic of Gregg Allman. Deutch then joined the teen coming-of-age comedy Good Kids, which was released on October 21, 2016, by Vertical Entertainment. She also landed the lead role in Julie Plec's and Sue Kramer's rom-com Cover Girl and starred in the official music video of the song "Opium" by The New Division with Avan Jogia.
In 2016, Deutch played Beverly in Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!!, which premiered at SXSW Film Festival. Deutch was paired with freshman ballplayer Jake Bradford played by Blake Jenner. She starred alongside Robert De Niro and Zac Efron in Dirty Grandpa, as love interest to Efron's character and in Why Him? alongside James Franco, Bryan Cranston and Megan Mullally. She played a Stanford student, daughter to Cranston and Mullally's characters, who falls in love with a billionaire, Laird, played by Franco. Deutch's next role was in the crime drama Vincent-N-Roxxy, alongside Emory Cohen, Emile Hirsch and Zoë Kravitz which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival. Deutch starred as Samantha "Sam" Kingston in Before I Fall, an adaptation of Lauren Oliver's best-selling young adult novel of the same name, also starring Jennifer Beals and Kian Lawley.[37] Andrea Mandell of USA Today described Before I Fall as a milestone in Deutch's rising career. The scripts of Good Kids, Dirty Grandpa and Before I Fall were on the 2011 Black List.[39] A second film featuring Deutch premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2017, Danny Strong's Rebel in the Rye. The biopic of author J.D. Salinger saw Deutch as Oona O'Neill opposite Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, and Laura Dern.
Deutch starred in Flower directed by Max Winkler, with a script written by Alex McAulay. Flower was added to the 2012 Black List and premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. Aubrey Page of Collider described her performance as an "electric lead performance" and David Ehrlich of IndieWire thought the film "confirms that Zoey Deutch is a genuine star in the making." Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter concluded "Flower is redeemed only by Zoey Deutch's magnetic performance, which would be star-making if in the service of a better vehicle."
Deutch appeared in her mother Lea Thompson's directorial debut The Year Of Spectacular Men as Sabrina, with Avan Jogia, her sister Madelyn, Cameron Monaghan and Nicholas Braun. She also shares the production credit for the film. The film had its world premiere in June 2017 in Los Angeles Film Festival 2017 and was screened at various film festivals before theatrical release. Scott Menzel of We Live Entertainment described her role as Sabrina in this film as "without question her finest performance to date." Along with these, in the same year, was seen opposite Ed Sheeran in the official music video of his song "Perfect" from the album ÷. The video which was released on November 9, 2017, has garnered over 3.4 billion views and 19 million likes, as of May 2023. Also in 2017, she appeared in James Franco's The Disaster Artist, based on the book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, which tells the behind-the-scenes story behind cult film
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