Rise to Fame
Growing up between Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet gets you in the room. It doesn't get you a career. She spent years in supporting slots across X-Men, Divergent, and Fantastic Beasts before the industry stopped treating her like a famous person's kid. The Batman (2022) fixed that. As Selina Kyle opposite Robert Pattinson, critics called her the best version of Catwoman in decades, and she became only the second woman of color to play the character in a feature film. The role reframed a decade of bit parts as a longer game.
In the Spotlight
Post-Batman, she's moved past proving she can act. Blink Twice (2024), her directorial debut, started as a script she'd been developing since 2017, and the original title, Pussy Island, lasted until the MPA refused to approve it for billboards. The debut landed at 75% on Rotten Tomatoes. She closed 2024 by splitting from co-star and former fiance Channing Tatum after three years, though both remain attached to an upcoming film called Alpha Gang. She told Elle in early 2026 that she still cares for him, which is either maturity or excellent publicist work.
Side Notes
The famous-parents story only goes so far. Her grandmother was Roxie Roker, who played Helen Willis on The Jeffersons, which puts the lineage three generations deep in American entertainment. The meta-layer gets stranger with High Fidelity: Lisa Bonet appeared in the 2000 John Cusack original, and Kravitz spent Hulu's 2020 remake as the gender-flipped lead and executive producer. Hulu cancelled it after one season. She publicly called it 'a big mistake' and named the network's lack of diversity as the reason. Not many actors in their first lead role go on record criticizing the platform that just dropped them.