Zoey Deutch Biography: Age, Family, Relationship, Net Worth, Movies and Upcoming Projects

Zoey Deutch is an American actress and producer who has built a career across television, romantic comedy, drama, thriller, independent film, animation and Broadway. Born in Los Angeles on November 10, 1994, she grew up in a Hollywood family as the daughter of actress Lea Thompson and director Howard Deutch, but developed her own career through early television roles before becoming widely known for films such as Everybody Wants Some!!, Before I Fall, Set It Up, Zombieland: Double Tap, The Outfit and Juror #2. Her recent work has moved further into critically noticed independent cinema, particularly Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, while 2026 has brought new releases including Voicemails for Isabelle, Minions & Monsters and a four-episode voice role in Invincible. She also made her Broadway debut in Our Town and received the 2025 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Featured Actress in a Play.

Summary

• Full name: Zoey Francis Chaya Thompson Deutch
• Date of birth: November 10, 1994
• Current age: 31 years old as of September 24, 2026
• Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
• Nationality: American
• Profession: Actress and producer
• Years active: 2010–present as a screen performer
• Parents: Lea Thompson and Howard Deutch
• Sibling: Madelyn Deutch
• Education: Oakwood School, Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and Young Actors Space
• Early breakthrough: The Suite Life on Deck and Ringer
• Major film breakthrough: Everybody Wants Some!!, followed by Before I Fall and Set It Up
• Best-known movies: Vampire Academy, Before I Fall, Set It Up, Zombieland: Double Tap, The Outfit, Juror #2 and Nouvelle Vague
• Major TV role: Infinity Jackson in The Politician
• Broadway debut: Emily Webb in Our Town
• Current relationship: Engaged to actor and comedian Jimmy Tatro
• Major recent recognition: 2025 Mill Valley Film Festival Acting Award, 2025 Denver Film Festival Rising Star Award, 2026 Astra Film Awards Virtuoso Award and 2026 CinemaCon Vanguard Award
• Current/upcoming work: The 99'ers is listed in post-production, with Deutch playing soccer executive Marla Messing.

Early Life and Childhood

Zoey Francis Chaya Thompson Deutch was born on November 10, 1994, in Los Angeles, California. She grew up surrounded by people working in film, television, music and performance.

Her mother is actress and director Lea Thompson, known for Back to the Future, Some Kind of Wonderful and numerous television productions. Her father, Howard Deutch, is a film and television director whose credits include Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful. Her parents met while working on Some Kind of Wonderful and later married. Zoey has one older sister, Madelyn Deutch, who is also an actress, writer and filmmaker.

Growing up with famous parents did not mean that Zoey simply entered the industry without preparation. Interviews from her teenage years show that acting was something she developed seriously from a young age.

She began taking acting classes when she was about five years old. Her mother introduced her to children's improvisation, and Deutch has explained that the experience changed the way she approached performing. She later described the idea of saying "yes" in improvisation as an important influence on her personality and creative life.

Her childhood was also somewhat unusual for someone growing up in Los Angeles. An interview with Nylon described the Deutch family home as a kind of ranch in the middle of Los Angeles, with dogs, cats, birds, chickens, horses and other animals. She grew up with her parents and sister in a family environment that combined Hollywood work with a very private home life.

Deutch has also spoken about how her parents influenced her attitude toward work. Rather than treating entertainment simply as fame, the family emphasized working hard, being kind and continuing to improve. Her close relationship with her sister became particularly important later when they worked together professionally.

Education

Deutch attended Oakwood School in Los Angeles and later studied at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where theater was an important part of her education. She also trained at the Young Actors Space, a long-running acting school whose alumni include Deutch as well as many other professional performers.

Her education focused heavily on performance rather than a traditional university route. At the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, she studied theater while continuing to develop her acting skills outside school.

She also had a long background in dance. Her training has included forms such as ballet, jazz, tap, modern and hip-hop. That experience helped give her physical confidence and performance skills that later became useful in both film and stage work.

Beginning of Career

Zoey Deutch began her professional screen career as a teenager.

Her first major television role came in 2010 when she joined Disney Channel's The Suite Life on Deck as Maya Bennett. The recurring part gave her early experience working in television and introduced her to a young audience.

She followed it with a recurring role as Juliet Martin on The CW's Ringer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. The series gave Deutch a very different acting environment from Disney Channel comedy and allowed her to work in a darker television drama.

During this early period, she also appeared in smaller roles on shows such as NCIS, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior and Switched at Birth.

Her early film work included Mayor Cupcake, where she appeared with her mother and sister. She also had a small scene filmed for The Amazing Spider-Man that did not make the theatrical cut.

These experiences gradually helped Deutch move away from being known primarily as a young television actress.

Breakthrough

One important turning point came with Beautiful Creatures in 2013, in which Deutch played Emily Asher. The fantasy film introduced her to a much larger movie audience.

In 2014, she received a major leading role in Vampire Academy, playing Rose Hathaway. The film was adapted from Richelle Mead's popular young-adult novels and gave Deutch a physically demanding, action-oriented part.

Her career changed again in 2016. She appeared in Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!!, playing Beverly, a college student surrounded by a group of young baseball players in 1980s Texas. Around the same period she also appeared in Why Him?, Dirty Grandpa, Good Kids and Vincent N Roxxy.

The biggest step came in 2017.

Deutch starred as Samantha Kingston in Before I Fall, a young-adult drama built around a girl repeatedly reliving the same day. She also appeared in Flower and played Oona O'Neill in Rebel in the Rye.

Then came Set It Up in 2018.

The Netflix romantic comedy paired Deutch with Glen Powell and became one of the projects most closely associated with her career. She played Harper Moore, an assistant who attempts to set up her demanding boss with another executive assistant. The movie demonstrated Deutch's ability to combine comedy, romance and a fast-moving dialogue style.

Major Career

After Set It Up, Deutch continued to avoid being locked into only one kind of role.

In 2019, she starred in Buffaloed as Peg Dahl, a young woman who becomes involved in the debt-collection business. She also appeared as Madison in Zombieland: Double Tap, joining a major ensemble that included Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone.

That same year, Deutch entered television's awards-oriented comedy space with Ryan Murphy's Netflix series The Politician. She played Infinity Jackson, one of the show's central characters. The role allowed her to work with performers including Ben Platt and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Deutch also expanded her role behind the camera during this period.

She produced The Year of Spectacular Men, a family project written by her sister Madelyn and directed by their mother, Lea Thompson. Deutch also received producing credits on Buffaloed, Not Okay, Something from Tiffany's and later The Threesome. In a 2025 interview with PEOPLE, she explained that producing allowed her to help create the kinds of roles and projects she wanted to work on.

In 2022, she had three very different major projects across film. Not Okay placed her in a satirical drama about social-media fame, while The Outfit moved her into a dark crime thriller alongside Mark Rylance and Dylan O'Brien. She then starred in the holiday romance Something from Tiffany's.

Her role in The Outfit was particularly different from the romantic-comedy parts for which she had become widely recognized. She played Mable, an assistant working in a tailor shop that becomes the center of a dangerous confrontation involving organized crime. The film was directed by Graham Moore and released by Focus Features in March 2022.

In 2024, Deutch appeared in Clint Eastwood's Juror #2 as Allison "Ally" Crewson. The Warner Bros. film followed a juror facing a serious moral dilemma during a murder trial and gave Deutch another opportunity to work in a mature dramatic setting.

Major Movies and TV Shows

Her 2026 voice work has also expanded her range into animation. In Minions & Monsters, she voices Debbie, while IMDb records her as Zoe in four episodes of Invincible's 2026 season.

Broadway Career

One of the biggest changes in Deutch's career came when she made her Broadway debut in Our Town in 2024.

She played Emily Webb in the revival directed by Kenny Leon. The production also starred Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Ephraim Sykes and Richard Thomas. It opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 10, 2024, and concluded on January 19, 2025.

The production was nominated for the 2025 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. Deutch herself received the 2025 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Emily.

For Deutch, Broadway represented a new stage in her career because it required performing live rather than relying on editing and multiple takes in film and television.

Personal Life

Family

Family remains an important part of Zoey Deutch's life and career.

She is the daughter of Lea Thompson and Howard Deutch and the younger sister of Madelyn Deutch. Both sisters entered the entertainment business and have worked together professionally.

The clearest example is The Year of Spectacular Men. Madelyn wrote the film, Lea Thompson directed it, and both sisters appeared in it. Zoey was also involved as a producer. The project became a genuine family production rather than simply a movie featuring relatives.

Deutch has continued to speak warmly about her relationship with her sister. In a 2026 appearance on the Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers podcast, she and Madelyn discussed their childhood, their eventual closeness and the experiences they have shared while growing up in an entertainment family.

Relationships

As of September 24, 2026, Zoey Deutch is engaged to actor and comedian Jimmy Tatro.

The couple publicly confirmed their relationship in 2021. In September 2025, Deutch announced that they had already been engaged for about three months.

In June 2026, Deutch clarified that they had not yet married after fans mistook photographs of the pair for wedding pictures. She confirmed that she and Tatro were still engaged.

Before Tatro, Deutch had a long-term relationship with actor Avan Jogia. The couple became publicly known as a pair around 2012 and ended their relationship in 2017.

There is no reliable current public record confirming that Deutch has children.

Philanthropy, Charity and Causes

Zoey Deutch has participated in a number of charitable projects during her career.

One long-running family connection has involved Corazón de Vida, an organization supporting orphanages in Baja California, Mexico. Deutch has also participated in benefit performances connected with the Alzheimer's Association and other fundraising events.

She has supported clean-water fundraising through Water.org's Give.Water.org campaign. A fundraising page associated with her name documents donations made around the campaign and identifies it as a project focused on helping provide safe water.

She has also participated in Dress for Success activities. In 2017, she was named one of the celebrity ambassadors for the organization's Shop for Success event, which raised money for career development and employment-retention programs.

These activities show that her charitable work has included children's welfare, clean water, health-related causes and employment support.

Awards and Nominations

The following table focuses on significant documented honors and nominations rather than every nomination from her entire career.

Her recent recognition is closely connected with Nouvelle Vague. She received the Mill Valley Film Festival's Acting award for the film and the Denver Film Festival's Rising Star Award. She was also nominated for a 2026 Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance.

In January 2026, Deutch received the Virtuoso Award at the Astra Film Awards. Later that year, CinemaCon named her the recipient of its Vanguard Award at the 2026 Big Screen Achievement Awards.

Latest Career Developments

Nouvelle Vague

One of Deutch's most important recent performances is Jean Seberg in Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague.

The 2025 film recreates the making of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. Deutch plays Seberg while also portraying the character Seberg played within the story. That required her to approach the character on more than one level.

The performance brought several major festival honors and a 2026 Independent Spirit Award nomination. Netflix currently lists the movie as a 2025 release starring Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch and Aubry Dullin.

Voicemails for Isabelle

In 2026, Deutch returned to romantic comedy with Netflix's Voicemails for Isabelle.

She plays Jill, an aspiring pastry chef who continues leaving voice messages for her late sister. Unknown to Jill, the sister's old telephone number has been reassigned to a man named Wes, played by Nick Robinson. Their relationship develops through the messages.

Netflix released the film on June 19, 2026, and its official site currently lists the film as available to stream.

Minions & Monsters

Deutch also entered the world of major animation in 2026.

Minions & Monsters, from Illumination, features her voice as Debbie. The film follows the Minions as they become connected with early Hollywood filmmaking and later attempt to make their own monster movie. Illumination lists the production as a 2026 feature.

Invincible

Her television work also expanded into animation. Deutch provided the voice of Zoe in four episodes of Invincible in 2026. IMDb records those appearances across the fourth season.

Current Projects

The clearest confirmed future feature in current sources is The 99'ers. Netflix announced Deutch as Marla Messing, the American soccer executive associated with the organization of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. The project is currently listed as being in post-production, but a confirmed release date has not been announced in the sources checked for this biography.

Some entertainment databases also list other projects in development, but their production status is less firmly documented. They are therefore not presented here as definite upcoming releases.

Net Worth

Celebrity net worth figures should be treated carefully because private financial information, contracts, investments and business arrangements are generally not publicly available in full.

Celebrity Net Worth currently estimates Zoey Deutch's net worth at approximately $4 million. Other websites repeat similar figures, but these estimates are not audited financial statements and should not be treated as an officially confirmed amount.

Her income comes from acting, producing and related entertainment work, but the exact value of her assets and earnings is not publicly established.

Career Highlights

Why Zoey Deutch Stands Out

The clearest feature of Zoey Deutch's career is the variety of roles she has taken.

She became familiar to audiences through youth television, moved into fantasy and young-adult films, became a recognizable romantic-comedy lead, then moved into darker dramas and thrillers. Her work in Set It Up and Something from Tiffany's shows her comfort with romantic comedy, while Before I Fall, The Outfit, Not Okay and Juror #2 show a different side of her acting.

She has also worked with directors from very different backgrounds, including Richard Linklater and Clint Eastwood, and has added Broadway and animation to her career.

Producing has become another part of that evolution. Deutch has explained that producing gave her a way to become more involved in selecting projects and creating opportunities rather than waiting solely for acting offers.

Her career also shows a strong connection to her family while remaining separate from her parents' careers. She has collaborated with Lea Thompson and Madelyn Deutch, but her own résumé has developed across projects and genres that are distinct from the work that originally made her parents famous.

Legacy and Career Impact So Far

At 31, Zoey Deutch's career is still developing, so it is more accurate to discuss her career impact so far than to describe a finished legacy.

She has moved from Disney Channel television to mainstream movies, streaming productions, independent cinema, Broadway and voice acting. Her career also demonstrates an increasing interest in working behind the camera through producing.

Her Broadway debut broadened her professional range, while Nouvelle Vague brought her significant festival recognition. The 2026 Astra Virtuoso Award and CinemaCon Vanguard Award add to a growing collection of industry honors.

Her continued movement between comedy, drama, romance, thriller, animation and theater suggests that she has not limited herself to a single screen identity.

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Zoey Deutch?

Zoey Deutch is 31 years old as of September 24, 2026. She was born on November 10, 1994.

Where was Zoey Deutch born?

She was born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Who are Zoey Deutch's parents?

Her mother is actress and director Lea Thompson, while her father is director Howard Deutch.

Does Zoey Deutch have a sister?

Yes. Her older sister is Madelyn Deutch, an actress, writer and filmmaker. The sisters worked together on The Year of Spectacular Men.

Is Zoey Deutch married?

No. As of September 24, 2026, she is engaged but not married to Jimmy Tatro. She publicly corrected marriage speculation in June 2026.

Who is Zoey Deutch's fiancé?

Her fiancé is actor and comedian Jimmy Tatro. The couple became publicly known as a couple in 2021 and announced their engagement in September 2025.

Does Zoey Deutch have children?

No children have been publicly confirmed in the reliable current sources reviewed for this biography.

What is Zoey Deutch best known for?

She is particularly known for Set It Up, Before I Fall, Vampire Academy, Zombieland: Double Tap, The Politician, The Outfit, Juror #2 and Nouvelle Vague.

What was Zoey Deutch's Broadway role?

She made her Broadway debut as Emily Webb in Thornton Wilder's Our Town in 2024. The production ran until January 19, 2025.

What award did Zoey Deutch win for Our Town?

She won the 2025 Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Emily Webb.

What is Zoey Deutch's latest movie?

Her major 2026 release Voicemails for Isabelle premiered on Netflix on June 19, 2026. She also voiced Debbie in Minions & Monsters, released in 2026.

What is Zoey Deutch working on now?

Her most clearly documented upcoming project is Netflix's The 99'ers, where she plays American soccer executive Marla Messing. The project is currently listed in post-production, with no confirmed release date in the sources checked.

What is Zoey Deutch's net worth?

Celebrity Net Worth currently estimates her net worth at about $4 million, but this is an online estimate rather than an independently verified financial figure.

References

Netflix Tudum — Zoey Deutch and Voicemails for Isabelle

Netflix Tudum — The 99'ers cast announcement

Netflix — Voicemails for Isabelle official page

Netflix — Nouvelle Vague official page

CinemaCon — 2026 Big Screen Achievement Awards

Film Independent — 2026 Spirit Award nominees

Shubert Organization — Our Town Broadway cast announcement

IBDB — Our Town Broadway production information

Focus Features — The Outfit

Warner Bros. Discovery Pressroom — Juror #2

Searchlight Pictures — Not Okay

Amazon — Something from Tiffany's

Dress for Success — Shop for Success Los Angeles

Young Actors Space — Alumni

People — Zoey Deutch's parents

ABC News — Zoey Deutch and Jimmy Tatro engagement

Celebrity Net Worth — Zoey Deutch net-worth estimate