9 Facts About The Harder They Fall's Zazie Beetz That Prove She's a Badass in Real Life, Too

Zazie's father is from East Germany and her mother is a New Yorker. The actress was born in Germany and lived between there and the US up until preschool. Most of her father's family, including her grandparents, still reside in Germany. Zazie speaks German fluently, which came in handy for a season two episode of Atlanta, in which Van, who is also half-German, takes Earn (Donald Glover) to a Fastnacht celebration as an attempt to share her German roots with him. In an interview with Seth Meyers, Zazie described how one of the show's producers had no idea she spoke German and assumed Zazie had studied the language for the episode. "He was like 'Wow, she really worked a lot for it,' and um, I didn't," Zazie teased.