ABOUT ZOEY
Zoey Francis Thompson Deutch (born November 10, 1994) is an American actress and producer.
Deutch began her career with starring roles in the gothic fantasy film Beautiful Creatures (2013) and the horror comedy film Vampire Academy (2014). In 2016, she starred as Beverly in the comedy Everybody Wants Some!! and Stephanie Fleming in the comedy Why Him?. In 2017, she starred as Samantha Kingston in the drama Before I Fall, Erica Vandross in the comedy-drama Flower, and Harper in the romantic comedy Set It Up. She also produced and starred in the films The Year of Spectacular Men(2017) and Buffaloed (2019).
Deutch is the younger daughter of director Howard Deutch and actress-director Lea Thompson.
Early Life
Zoey Francis Thompson 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 musician Barbara Barry Thompson, music executive Murray Deutch, and actor Robert Walden. Her mother, from Minnesota, is of Irish ancestry while her father, from New York, is of Jewish ancestry. She was raised 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. She is a voracious reader, studies with a political science tutor (with a current focus on constitutional law) and takes art classes at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Filmography
Cinema:
• Mayor Cupcake, by Alex Pires (2011)
• The Amazing Spider-Man, by Mark Webb (2012)
• Beautiful Creatures – La sedicesima luna, by Richard LaGravenese (2013)
• Vampire Academy, by Mark Waters (2014)
• Good Kids, by Chris McCoy (2015)
• Everybody Wants Some, by Richard Linklater (2015)
• Vincent N Roxxy, by Gary Michael Schultz (2016)
• Dirty Grandpa, by Dan Mazer (2016)
• Why Him?, by John Hamburg (2016)
• Rebel in the Rye, by Danny Strong (2017)
• Before I Fall, by Ry-Russo Young (2017)
• The Disaster Artist, by James Franco (2017)
• Flower, by Max Winkler (2017)
• The Year of Spectacular Men, by Lea Thompson (2018)
• Set It Up, by Claire Scanlon (2018)
• The Professor, by Wayne Roberts (2019)
• Buffaloed, by Tanya Wexler (2019)
• Zombieland 2: Double Tap, by Ruben Fleischer (2019)
Television:
• Hallelujah – serie TV, episode 1×01 (2011)
• NCIS – Unità anticrimine – serie TV, episode 8×17 (2011)
• The Suite Life on Deck – serie TV, 7 episodes (2010 - 2011)
• Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior – serie TV, episode 1×12 (2011)
• Ringer – serie TV, 18 episodi (2011-2012)
• Switched at Birth – Al posto tuo – serie TV, episodes 2×07-2×08 (2013)
• The Politician, by Ryan Murphy (2019)
Music video:
• The New Division – Opium (2014)
• Ed Sheehan – Perfect (2017)
