Zazie Beetz and her husband, David Rysdahl, have a baby on the way!
The Atlanta actress, 35, debuted her baby bump at the New York premiere of Nocturne on Tuesday, October 20, wearing a striped top and matching skirt from Maximilian Raynor’s spring 2027 collection.
The mom-to-be was joined by Rysdahl, 39, who cradled his wife’s belly while they posed on the carpet.
Beetz opened up about her hopes of becoming a mother in a 2022 interview with Gossamer magazine.
“Since I can remember, I’ve always wanted to be a mother, and hopefully I have the opportunity to do that in my life,” she said. “I’ve just always felt in my bones that it was something I was meant to be.”
“I was always sort of baby crazy and loved children, and it turned into this obsession with birth, and the transition of identity for a mother, or a person giving birth,” she continued.
She even considered a career as a midwife.
“I’ve actually been wanting to take a doula program. I would love to learn midwifery. It’s weird to say this, but I’ve thought that if acting doesn’t work out, midwifery would be my plan B,” she added.
Beetz and Rysdahl met at an acting workshop and began dating in 2014. They married in September 2023 at Salveymühle by Zaza in Uckermark, Germany, the actress’s birth country.
Rysdahl spoke about the benefits of being married to another actor in a 2024 interview with Awards Radar.
“That’s what’s fun about dating or being married to other actors. She’s my acting coach and I’m hers,” he said.
The couple have worked together in Dead Pigs, Nine Days and the “Mazey Day” episode of Black Mirror. They co-founded the production company Sleepy Poppy to develop projects of their own.
Beetz’s new Apple TV+ crime drama, Nocturne, also stars Stephen Graham, Liev Schreiber, Chrissy Metz and Rory Culkin. It premieres October 30.
