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Goddaughter of Marisa Tomei and Cree Summer.

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.

Her semi-nude appearance on the November 2018 cover of Rolling Stone magazine was a recreation of a similar shot of mother Lisa Bonet for the May 1988 cover (when she was two months pregnant with Zoë).

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/Belarusian Jewish descent.

She and her father, Lenny Kravitz, have both appeared in a film with Jennifer Lawrence: Zoë in X-Men: Erste Entscheidung (2011), her father in Die Tribute von Panem - The Hunger Games (2012) and Die Tribute von Panem - 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". Zoë never revealed who told her that. Years later, she played Catwoman in The Batman (2022) and was praised for her performance. In a March 6, 2022 interview for The Observer, Zoë said she doesn't know if the "going urban" quote came directly from the film's director, Christopher Nolan, and that she thinks it was probably from a casting director or a casting director's assistant. In a post on her Instagram story on March 8, 2022, Zoë clarified that she wasn't told she was "too urban" for the role of Catwoman in 'The Dark Knight Rises' like some click-baits suggested, but that she wanted to audition for a small part in the film when she was told that they weren't going "urban" on the part. Reps for Nolan did not respond to People magazine's request for comment on the matter.

She and Julie Newmar are the only actress to play the DC Comics character Selina Kyle/Catwoman in both animation and live-action.

The drastic weight loss required for her to play the anorexic Marie in The Road Within (2014) took a toll on her health, causing her to lose her voice and get shingles.

In May 2019, she secretly married her boyfriend of 3 years Karl Glusman. On June 29, 2019, they had a wedding ceremony at her father Lenny Kravitz's home in Paris, France. The couple were introduced by mutual friends at a bar in 2016 and started dating soon after. Kravitz announced in October 2018 that Glusman had quietly proposed to her eight months earlier.

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.

Is now the face of the new Vera Wang fragrance, "Rock Princess". (November 2009)

In October 2023. Kravitz has been announced her engagement to Channing Tatum. After two years of dating.

Granddaughter of Roxie Roker and Sy Kravitz.

Best friend of Olivia Thirlby.

She supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

Has a dog named Scout. She named a lipstick in her YSL Beauté line "Scout's Red" after him. She also once brought Scout to a Golden Globes after-party at Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, where the dog escaped among celebrity party-goers and had to be caught by her then-husband, Karl Glusman.

Cousin of Al Roker, Courtney Roker, Leila Roker, and Nicholas Albert Roker.

Best friend to Olivia Thirlby.

In 2018, together with Naomi Campbell, she advertised jewelry from Tiffany & Co.

Zoë's grandmother, Roxie Roker died at two minutes after midnight on December 2, 1995, the day after her 7th birthday. Her family grew concerned that her grandmother would die on her birthday and they did not want to commemorate the death of Roxie on the same day as her birthday.

As of late October 2018, Kravitz announced to her engagement Karl Glusman.