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Zoey Deutch
American actress and producer (born 1994) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Zoey Francis Chaya Thompson Deutch[citation needed] (/dɔɪtʃ/ DOYTCH; born November 10, 1994)[1] 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).
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Early life
Deutch was born on November 10, 1994, in Los Angeles, to actress Lea Thompson and director Howard Deutch.[2] She has one sister, Madelyn Deutch, who is also an actress.[3] 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.[4][5][6] Deutch's father, from New York, is of Jewish heritage, whereas her mother, from Minnesota, is of partial Irish ancestry.[7] Deutch identifies as Jewish and had a bat mitzvah.[8][9]
She started taking acting classes at the age of five.[10] Deutch studied at Oakwood School, Los Angeles County High School for the Arts[11] and at the Young Actors Space.[12] She majored in theater at L.A. County High School for the Arts.[13]
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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.[14] From 2011 to 2012, she played recurring role of Juliet Martin in The CW thriller drama Ringer.[15] She debuted on the big screen in Mayor Cupcake (2011) alongside her mother and sister.[16] Deutch booked a small scene in The Amazing Spider-Man but director Marc Webb cut the scene, although it is included on the DVD.[17]
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.[18] Deutch also appeared on NCIS,[19] Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, ABC Family's Switched at Birth[20] and in Marc Cherry's television pilot Hallelujah.[21]
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.[22] The film marked her first appearance as a lead.[23] Jordan Hoffman of the New York Daily News termed her performance in the film as breakout lead performance.[24] 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.[25] Deutch then joined the teen coming-of-age comedy Good Kids,[26] which was released on October 21, 2016, by Vertical Entertainment.[27] She also landed the lead role in Julie Plec's and Sue Kramer's rom-com Cover Girl[28] and starred in the official music video of the song "Opium" by The New Division with Avan Jogia.[29]
In 2016, Deutch played Beverly in Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!!,[30] which premiered at SXSW Film Festival.[31] Deutch was paired with freshman ballplayer Jake Bradford played by Blake Jenner.[32] She starred alongside Robert De Niro and Zac Efron in Dirty Grandpa, as love interest to Efron's character[33] and in Why Him? alongside James Franco, Bryan Cranston and Megan Mullally.[34] She played a Stanford student, daughter to Cranston and Mullally's characters, who falls in love with a billionaire, Laird, played by Franco.[35] 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.[36] 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.[38] 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.[40] The biopic of author J.D. Salinger saw Deutch as Oona O'Neill opposite Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Spacey, and Laura Dern.[41]
Deutch starred in Flower directed by Max Winkler, with a script written by Alex McAulay. Flower was added to the 2012 Black List[42] and premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.[43] Aubrey Page of Collider described her performance as an "electric lead performance"[44] and David Ehrlich of IndieWire thought the film "confirms that Zoey Deutch is a genuine star in the making."[45] 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."[46]
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.[47] She also shares the production credit for the film.[48] 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."[49] Along with these, in the same year, was seen opposite Ed Sheeran in the official music video of his song "Perfect" from the album ÷.[50] The video which was released on November 9, 2017, has garnered over 4 billion views and 22 million likes, as of August 2025.[51] 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 The Room.[52]
2018–present: Established actress
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Deutch starred opposite her Everybody Wants Some costar Glen Powell, in Netflix's 2018 romantic comedy Set It Up. The story follows two overworked assistants who try to get their horrible bosses out of their hair by setting them up together.[53] She also landed a role in the drama-comedy The Professor alongside Johnny Depp.[54] In May 2019, the makers of Set It Up announced that Deutch will be reuniting with Glen Powell for another rom-com tentatively titled Most Dangerous Game.[55] In July 2018, it was announced that Deutch would be starring in Ryan Murphy's new web television comedy series on Netflix, The Politician alongside Ben Platt and Gwyneth Paltrow,[56] which was released on Netflix on September 27, 2019.[57]
In Tanya Wexler's crime comedy drama Buffaloed (2019), Deutch played the lead role of Peg Dahl, a con artist who, while on parole for her crimes and in a desperate attempt to escape her hometown of Buffalo, New York, becomes a debt collector.[58] Co-produced by Deutch herself, and co-starring Judy Greer, Jermaine Fowler, Noah Reid and Jai Courtney, the film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to positive reviews from critics. Upon its limited theatrical release in February 2020, the film received further praise. In her review for The Los Angeles Times, Kimber Myers applauded Deutch's performance, saying she "immediately takes the audience hostage in the opening moments of Buffaloed [...] the actress owns this sharp comedy — and everyone watching — playing the type of character we still don’t see that often on screen."[59] Sheila O'Malley of RogerEbert.com called the film, "a showcase for the mega-talented Deutch", saying Deutch "tosses herself into the role like a maniacal fidget-spinner, all flash and charm." Concluding her review of the film, O'Malley wrote, "Buffaloed is refreshing in how it challenges these norms, and in so doing, gives Deutch—who has already proven her comedic acting chops in Everybody Wants Some!!, Zombieland: Double Tap and the Netflix series The Politician—a chance to shine at the center of the narrative."[60] TheWrap's Elizabeth Weitzman was more critical of the film, calling it "uneven",[61] while The New York Times' Jeannette Catsoulis penned "Simultaneously rowdy and slick, Buffaloed is exuberantly paced and entirely dependent on Deutch’s moxie and pell-mell performance."[62]
Deutch starred as Madison in Zombieland: Double Tap, which was released October 11, 2019.[63] She received positive reviews for her performance,[64] and was nominated at the 2020 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards for Best Supporting Actress.[65] In 2020, Deutch starred in the Quibi television series adaptation Home Movie: The Princess Bride, to raise money for World Central Kitchen.[66] In 2021, she appeared in the music video "Anyone", a song by Canadian singer Justin Bieber. She also joined Hound as the lead character "Callie" as well as producer.[67] She voiced a role in an adult animated comedy series Fairfax which premiered on Amazon Prime Video in October 2021.[68] Deutch starred in Graham Moore's directorial debut The Outfit (2022) alongside Mark Rylance and Dylan O'Brien[69] which premiered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival.[70] The same year she starred in Quinn Shephard's satire film Not Okay, which was released on Hulu.[71][72] She starred and executive produced Something From Tiffany's, an Amazon Original film co-produced by Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine, based on the Melissa Hill novel.[73]
In May 2023, Deutch was cast in Juror #2, which is purported to be Clint Eastwood's final directorial effort,[74] and in Anniversary alongside Diane Lane and Kyle Chandler.[75] From October 2024 to January 2025, she played Emily Webb, in a Broadway revival of the Thorton Wilder play Our Town at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. She acted alongside Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes in a production directed by Kenny Leon.[76] Shania Russell of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Deutch making her Broadway debut, is as instantly likable as ever. She balances easy charisma with distinct vulnerability".[77] For the biographical film Nouvelle Vague, she reunited with director Richard Linklater portraying Jean Seberg during the period leading up to the latter's breakthrough role in the French New Wave film Breathless (1960).[78] The film had its premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it was met with positive reviews from critics and audience alike.[79] Critics describe her as being "well-cast" and "convincing" in the role.[80] [81] Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood described her as being "terrific", adding, "Deutch is especially impressive as Seberg. There wasn’t a moment I thought I was watching anyone else but Seberg."[82]
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Other work
Deutch along with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Rodrigo Santoro and Vince Vaughn performed a live reading of selected scenes from five winning scripts of 2017 at the 2017 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read.[83] She also joined as a presenter at 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards.[84] She again took the stage as a host for welcoming the co-founder of non-profit, non-governmental organization Vital Voices, Hillary Clinton at Global Leadership Awards 2018.[85] She joined as one of the speakers in first ever "Embrace Ambition Summit" held at Lincoln Center in New York.[86]
In 2018, Deutch was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the actors branch.[87]
Activism
Deutch supports Planned Parenthood[88] and was part of its rally with pro-choice advocates and leaders celebrating the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade at Sacramento, California.[89] She has performed for the benefit of Alzheimer's Association[90] and "What a pair!" Org[91] with her mother Lea Thompson and sister Madelyn Deutch. With her family, she has worked for more than a decade with Corazón de Vida, which supports orphanages in Baja California, Mexico.[92] She participated in the 2017 Women's March[93] and returned in 2018.[94] She is also a part of the Embrace Ambition campaign of the Tory Burch Foundation.[95][96] She was one of the celebrity ambassadors for the seventh annual "Shop for Success" charity designer shopping event that supports the efforts of Dress For Success.[97] She has also shown her support toward anti-sexual harassment movement Time's Up.[98] She has been a part of several fundraising campaigns for charity and in support of various causes.[99][100][101][102]
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Deutch has been the cover girl to Justine magazine's February 2013 issue, Miabella magazine's April 2013 issue, Afterglow magazine's December 2013 issue, Bello magazine's March 2014 edition,[103] Flaunt magazine's June 2015 issue, the February 2016 issue of Cosmopolitan U.S.,[104] spring 2016 edition of Rogue magazine.[105] She appeared on the cover of September 2016 issue of Harper by Harper's Bazaar and performed as a guest editor.[106]
She modeled for March 2013 issue of Interview,[107] Allure's December 2016 issue[108] and has done feature shoots for February 2014 issues of Seventeen and InStyle magazine, December 2015 issue of Nylon,[4] January 2016 and April 2017 issues of W Magazine,[109] March 2017 issue of Vanity Fair Italia, April 2017 issue of Vogue Russia and Vogue Turkey, May 2017 issue of Vanity Fair Spain, July 2017 issue of Marie Claire Indonesia, summer 2017 issue of Wonderland magazine[110] and summer campaign shoot for Tory Burch LLC.[111]
She was on the cover of the April 2017 issue of C California Style Magazine[112][113] and also among Marie Claire's Fresh Faces 2017 and one of the cover stars of its May 2017 edition.[114] She was on the cover of annual Women Of Hollywood portfolio of The Edit magazine in May 2017.,[115] Spring/Summer 2017 issue 07 of Tidal Magazine[116][117] and on the February 2018 edition of New York Post Alexa. She was the May 2018 cover star of Ocean Drive Magazine, Capitol File Magazine, and Los Angeles Confidential magazine.[118][119][120] In 2020, she featured in first ever worldwide video and image campaign, #MeAndMyPeekaboo by Italian luxury fashion house Fendi.[121][122]
She is frequently included in best dressed lists for her various appearances[123][124][125][126] and also seen in front rows of Milan Fashion Week,[127] Paris Fashion Week, Diane von Furstenberg, Cushnie et Ochs, DKNY,[128] New York Fashion Week,[129] Fendi's Haute couture show.[130] In 2013, Glamour included her among their list of "Hollywood's Next Big Things".[131] Deutch was among the Yahoo! Breakout Stars for the year 2014.[132] In 2014, Vanity Fair listed her among their "Hollywood's Next Wave Lineup".[133] In the same year, Variety also included her in their list of "'It' Girls (And Boys): Young Hollywood's Rising Stars".[134] The Hollywood Reporter listed her among their "Next Gen Talent 2016: Hollywood's Rising Stars 35 and Under" list.[135]
Harper's Bazaar described her as "quickly becoming Young Hollywood's most valuable player".[136] In 2017, British GQ described her as "Hollywood's hottest newcomer"[137] and Grazia Italy described her as the symbol of the "new generation of actresses-activists".[138] In a 2018 Indie Wire critics survey, she was listed among "The Best American Actors Under 30".[139] She was included in 'Forbes 30 under 30' class of 2020 in the field of Hollywood and entertainment.[140]
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Personal life
In 2012, Deutch began dating Canadian actor Avan Jogia. In January 2017, it was announced that they had ended their relationship after five years together.[141]
Since 2021, Deutch has been in a relationship with actor and comedian Jimmy Tatro.[142]
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