Awardsīeetz received a 2018 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series, for FX's Atlanta. They met during an acting workshop and have been together since 2014. Personal lifeīeetz is engaged to David Rysdahl, an actor and writer. Īfter Beetz graduated from college, she spent a year "broke and waiting tables" before she was cast in Atlanta. She graduated from the LaGuardia Arts High School in 2009, and attended Skidmore College, graduating in 2013 with a bachelor's degree in French. Growing up in New York's Washington Heights neighborhood, she became interested in acting while attending Muscota New School and performed in community theaters and on local stages. Her mixed-race identity was a source of discomfort for her during her youth. īeetz attended pre-school 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. The pronunciation, with, follows the German-dubbed version of the 1960 film adaptation of the novel.
Beetz was named after the title character in the Raymond Queneau novel Zazie in the Metro. Her parents separated when she was very young. Her father is a German cabinet maker who immigrated to the United States in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and her mother is an African-American social worker from New York. Zazie Olivia Beetz was born in Berlin in 1991.
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