Who Is Cazzie David? The New Umbrella Academy Cast Member Has a Famous Dad

As Cazzie was born in 1994, she was too young to remember the heyday of Seinfeld, and – even though she was older when Curb Your Enthusiasm debuted in 2000 – she didn’t really grasp the extent of her dad’s fame. “I didn’t even know my dad was famous, to be honest,” she told W in October 2017. “I was in elementary school when [Curb Your Enthusiasm] started, and by the last season, I was in high school, but I still don’t remember it really being on the air . . . It was never spoken about, never thought about.”

While attending Emerson, Cazzie landed an impressive internship at Vanity Fair through editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, who was a family friend. Her first assignment: to review the 2013 film Lovelace, a biographical drama centered on porn actress Linda Lovelace. “After it was published, there was an article about the nepotism of me being able to publish this piece, and it totally wrecked me,” she confessed to the Los Angeles Times during a November 2020 interview. “It made me feel so awful. But it didn’t stop me, it seems.” Luckily, Graydon loved the review and later hired Cazzie as one of the writers for Air Mail, his digital weekly newsletter.

Cazzie counts herself as a big fan of her dad’s (if not his biggest fan). In fact, when asked to name her favorite TV show by W in October 2017, she admitted it was Curb Your Enthusiasm. “It’s my favorite show. How embarrassing is that?” she joked. “I have to hide if I’m watching it when someone is coming over. It’s so weird if I’m watching it.” She’s such a fan that she even worked on set as a production assistant on the series when it returned for its ninth season.

Also like her dad, Cazzie is highly neurotic and constantly anxious, which is a problem that’s plagued Cazzie her whole life. “I give people this anxiety test as a joke, because anxiety has become such a trend, and it deeply annoys me,” she explained to the Los Angeles Times. “I ask them if they had anxiety when Clinton or Obama was president. Have you taken a nap in the last two years? Do you like roller coasters? Do you like scary movies? There’s a difference between having stress and having an anxiety disorder, and that’s never feeling safe or comfortable or like the rug is gonna be pulled out from under you at any second.”