In film, Beetz has appeared in the disaster film Geostorm (2017) and has played the
Marvel Comics character
Domino in the superhero film Deadpool 2 (2018) and
Arthur Fleck/Joker's neighbor Sophie in the psychological thriller Joker (2019).[4] She also voiced as Diane Foxington in the heist animated movie The Bad Guys.
Beetz attended preschool in Berlin and kindergarten in New York City before moving with her family there more permanently at the age of eight, speaking both German and English with her family at home.[10][12] Her mixed-race identity was a source of discomfort for her during her youth.[11] Growing up in New York's
Washington Heights neighborhood,[12] she became interested in acting while attending Muscota New School and performed in community theaters and on local stages.[10] She graduated from the
LaGuardia Arts High School in 2009, and attended
Skidmore College, graduating in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in French.[16] She spent a year living in Paris.[10]
After Beetz graduated from college, she spent a year "broke and waiting tables" before she was cast in Atlanta.[11]
Personal life
In May 2022 Vanity Fair reported that Beetz had recently gotten engaged to her writing partner, actor
David Rysdahl.[17][18] They met during an acting workshop and have been together since 2014.[11] They started a production company called Sleepy Poppy.[19][20] The couple married in 2023.[21]
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abcdHooton, Christopher (June 28, 2018).
"Zazie Beetz: 'My German identity is really important to me'". The Independent. UK.
Archived from the original on June 16, 2019. My dad is German, he was born in East Germany, and then after the [Berlin] Wall was brought down he came to the States for the first time and met my mom. They got pregnant in Germany, got married, stayed and had me there and then when I was 8 years old we moved to the States more permanently. But I was back and forth growing up, I went to pre-school over there but did all my proper schooling in New York.
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abcDavis, Allison P.
"Zazie Beetz on Deadpool, Atlanta, and Overcoming Her Anxiety". The Cut.
New York.
Archived from the original on April 15, 2019. Retrieved June 10, 2018. Her father is white and German, and her mother a black New Yorker, who wanted her daughter to grow up seeing other people who looked like her. Though the family lived in Washington Heights, Beetz spent a couple of months of every summer in Germany with her grandparents.
^Nepales, Janet Susan R. (May 20, 2018).
"'Deadpool 2' cast opens up". GMA News Online.
Archived from the original on November 9, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2019.