Zoë Isabella Kravitz (born December 1, 1988) is an American actress, singer and model. She is the daughter of musician Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet. She first appeared in the films No Reservations (2007) and The Brave One (2007), and played Angel Salvadore in the Marvel Comics film X-Men: First Class (2011).
Zoë Kravitz Actress - Date of Birth 1 December 1988, Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name Zoë Isabella Kravitz
Height 5' 1" (1.55 m)
Mini Bio (1) Zoe Isabella Kravitz, the daughter of singer/actor Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet, was born on December 1, 1988 in Los Angeles, California. She is of half African-American (from her father's mother and her mother's father) and half Ashkenazi Jewish (from her father's father and her mother's mother) descent. Zoe's love and interest in acting developed from classes she began taking while in school. Wasting little time, Zoe started working on two films during her senior year in high school; No Reservations (2007), directed by Scott Hicks, where she worked alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart, and The Brave One (2007), directed by Neil Jordan, starring Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard.
In 2008, Zoe completed work on Assassination of a High School President (2008), alongside Bruce Willis. She worked with Susan Sarandon and Pierce Brosnan on The Greatest (2009), which debuted at Sundance. Zoe has just wrapped on the latest Joel Schumacher film, Twelve (2010), co-starring Kiefer Sutherland, 50 Cent, Chace Crawford and Emma Roberts, which will be released in 2010. She recently wrapped shooting in New York on her first lead roles in the films, Beware the Gonzo (2010), opposite Amy Sedaris, Campbell Scott and Ezra Miller, and Yelling to the Sky (2011), the story of "Sweetness O'Hara", who has a sometimes-absent father and a present but mentally unstable mother.
Outside of her film endeavors, Kravitz has kept busy with various projects. She served as lead singer and co-writer with her band, "Elevator Fight". Kravitz is also the new face of Vera Wang's "Princess" perfume. The campaign launches in November 2009. Zoe starred in 2008 in Jay Z music video for his single, "I Know", off his "American Gangster" album. She was also featured with Jessica Alba, Ryan Phillippe, Tyrese Gibson, George Lopez, John Leguizamo and several other celebrities in Will.i.am's "We Are the Ones" video during Barack Obama campaign.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Carleen Donovan
Trivia (11) Daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet.
Granddaughter of Roxie Roker and Sy Kravitz.
Her grandmother Roxie Roker died at 2 minutes after midnight on December 2, 1995. Zoe's family was concerned that her grandmother would die on her birthday and they did not want to commemorate the death of her grandmother on the same day as Zoe's birthday.
Is now the face of the new Vera Wang fragrance, "Rock Princess". [November 2009]
Zoe's paternal grandfather, Sy Kravitz, was from a Russian Jewish family, and Zoe's paternal grandmother, Roxie Roker, was of African-American and Afro-Bahamian descent. Zoe's maternal grandfather, Allen Bonet, was African-American, and Zoe's maternal grandmother, Arlene Litman, was of Polish Jewish and Russian Jewish descent.
She and her father, Lenny Kravitz, have both appeared in a film with Jennifer Lawrence: Zoë in X-Men: First Class (2011), her father in The Hunger Games (2012) and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).
During an interview for the August 2015 issue of Nylon magazine, she revealed that she was denied an audition for a small role in The Dark Knight Rises (2012) because of her race, she was told that they weren't "going urban".
She graduated from the Rudolf Steiner School in Manhattan with the Class of 2007, then attended SUNY Purchase at their acting conservatory for a year before leaving to work in films.
It's an easy dis when people don't want to like me and want to say that I'm a brat. You have people who only want to be your friend because of that, or you have those who say, 'Oh, Zoe thinks she is so cool cause her dad is...'
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Full name at birth | Zoë Isabella Kravitz
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Claim to fame | her roles as Charlotte in the 2007 romantic comedy-drama film No Reservations, Sweetness O’Hara in the 2011 coming-of-age drama film Yelling to the Sky, Pearl in the Showtime comedy-drama series Californication, Angel Salvadore in the 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, Christina in the Divergent dystopian science fiction action film franchise, Marie in the 2014 teen coming-of-age drama film The Road Within, Nakia in the 2015 independent coming-of-age comedy-drama film Dope, Toast the Knowing in the 2015 post-apocalyptic action film Mad Max: Fury Road, Leta Lestrange in the 2016 fantasy film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and its 2018 sequel film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Roxxy in the 2016 action crime thriller film Vincent-N-Roxxy, Bonnie Carlson in the HBO black comedy-drama series Big Little Lies, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in the 2017 animated superhero comedy film The Lego Batman Movie (voice) and the 2022 live-action superhero film The Batman, Mary Jane Watson (voice) in the 2018 animated superhero film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Madge in the 2020 musical romantic drama film Viena and the Fantomes, Robyn “Rob” Brooks in the Hulu original romantic comedy web series High Fidelity, and Angela Childs in the 2022 HBO Max original thriller film KIMI
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Date of birth | 1 December 1988
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Place of birth | Los Angeles, California, USA
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Occupation | Actress, Singer, Model, Producer, Writer, Voice Actress
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Height | 5' 2" (157 cm)
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Weight | 112 lbs (51 kg)
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Dress size | 6
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Net worth | $8,000,000 USD
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University | Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA (2007-2008)
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