Zazie Beetz, a German-born actress, split her time as a child between Berlin and Washington Heights, and discovered her love for acting by performing in theater productions in grade school. She continued performing in theater throughout high school and college, including a production of Death of a Salesman at her alma mater, Skidmore College. Beetz acted in various short film projects, and made her major feature film debut in horror comedy film "Applesauce" (2015). She starred as Vanessa in her television series debut alongside Donald Glover on the comedy-drama series "Atlanta" (FX, 2016- ), which was also created by Glover. 2016 proved to be a big year for Beetz, as she appeared in the Michael Shannon-led drama "Wolves" (2016), and played Noelle in the anthology comedy-drama series "Easy" (Netflix, 2016), created by Joe Swanberg. Beetz next appeared in a crime drama thriller called "Finding Her" (2016) alongside Johnny Whitworth. After co-starring in eco-thriller "Geostorm" (2017) opposite Gerard Butler, Beetz received her most high-profile role when she was cast in the action comedy sequel "Deadpool 2" (2018). However, the film encountered tragedy during filming when Beetz's stuntwoman Joi Harris was killed in an on-set accident while performing a motorcycle stunt.
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Her father Thomas Beetz is a German cabinet maker who emigrated 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. Her parents separated when she was very young.
Zazie Beetz (born c. 1991) is a German-American actress known for the role of Vanessa on Atlanta (2016), as well as for starring in Deadpool 2 (2018), Joker (2019), and Nine Days (2020).
Zazie Beetz who played Vanessa in the series "Atlanta" was born in Berlin to a German father and an American mother from New York. She grew up speaking both German and English at home, and in college, she majored in French and spent a year in Paris.
Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman was born on September 1, 1996, in Oakland, California, to teachers Claire Stoermer and Kazembe Ajamu Coleman. Her father is African-American, with Nigerian ancestry; her mother has German and Scottish ancestry.
Beetz' character in the new film has vitiligo, a condition where melanin becomes inactive, causing patches of skin and hair to completely lose their pigment.
"It depends on how I am, but I feel very sexy when my legs are shaven, right? Where does that come from?" she says. “So I, sometimes intentionally, will let my body hair grow out so I don't feel beholden to that.”
Deadpool 2 flips Domino's appearance by keeping Beetz's natural skin tone and created a pale circle around her eye based on a condition that leaves melanin-deficient spots on a person's skin. Another big difference is the hair.
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