 Zita Hanrot was born in 1990, to a Jamaican mother and a French father.She briefly studied history of art before enrolling at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, France's national drama academy based in Paris, in 2011; she graduated in 2014.Zita appeared in commercials such as the French army campaign (2006) alongside the French actor Karl E. Landler.