Zoey Deutch

Zoey Francis Chaya Thompson Deutch (born November 10, 1994) is an American actress.

She is daughter of director Howard Deutch and actress-director Lea Thompson.

She gained recognition for her roles in the film Everybody Wants Some!!, the Netflix comedy series The Politician, and the romantic comedy film Set It Up.

Deutch was born on November 10, 1994, in Los Angeles, California, 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 great-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 is 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.

Deutch began her career with roles on the Disney Channel comedy series The Suite Life on Deck (2010–2011) and The CW crime drama series Ringer (2011–2012).

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.

The scripts of Good Kids, Dirty Grandpa and Before I Fall were on the 2011 Black List.

Flower was added to the 2012 Black List and premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.

Following her credited film debut in the gothic romance film Beautiful Creatures (2013), she starred in the fantasy horror film Vampire Academy (2014), for which she received a Teen Choice Award nomination.

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 and in Marc Cherry's television pilot Hallelujah.

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 also made small appearances in lesser known films such as Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), Before I Fall (2017), Flower (2017), Rebel in the Rye (2017), and The Outfit (2022), the latter of which earned her a British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.

She went on to star in Why Him? (2016), Set It Up (2018), Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), Buffaloed (2019), and Not Okay (2022).

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 essentially the only female lead in the film, 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 Bryan Cranston and Megan Mullally's characters, who falls in love with a billionaire, Laird, played by James 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.

Andrea Mandell of USA Today described Before I Fall as a milestone in Deutch's rising career.

In 2017, their mother, Lea Thompson directed Deutch and her sister Madelyn in the comedy-drama film The Year of Spectacular Men, which Deutch also co-produced.

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.