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Zoe Swicord Kazan (/ˈkəˈzæn/;[2] born September 9, 1983)[3][4] is an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter. She made her acting debut in the film Swordswallowers and Thin Men (2003) and later appeared in films such as The Savages (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008), and It's Complicated (2009). She starred in Happythankyoumoreplease (2010), Meek's Cutoff (2010), Ruby Sparks (2012), and What If (2013). In 2014, she appeared in the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, for which she received an Emmy nomination. She portrayed Emily Gardner in the film The Big Sick (2017), and in 2018 appeared in the Coen Brothers film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in the episode "The Gal Who Got Rattled".

Zoe Kazan
Kazan at a screening of The F Word in 2014
Born	Zoe Swicord Kazan[1] (1983-09-09) September 9, 1983 (age 39) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Yale University
Occupation	Actor playwright screenwriter
Years active	2003–present
Partner	Paul Dano (2007–present)
Children	2
Parents	Nicholas Kazan Robin Swicord
Relatives	Maya Kazan (sister) Elia Kazan (paternal grandfather) Molly Kazan (paternal grandmother)

She has appeared in several Broadway productions. She also wrote Ruby Sparks and co-wrote Wildlife (2018) with her partner Paul Dano (who directed Wildlife and co-starred with Kazan in Ruby Sparks). In 2020, she co-starred in the HBO miniseries The Plot Against America and in 2021, she co-starred as Pia Brewer in the Netflix limited series Clickbait.

Early life

Kazan was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord. Her paternal grandparents were film and theatre director Elia Kazan and playwright Molly Kazan (née Thacher).[5] Elia was an Anatolian Greek emigrant from Istanbul, while Molly was a Mayflower descendant.[6] The family surname was originally Kazantzoglou (Greek: Καζαντζόγλου).

Kazan was educated at the private Wildwood School, Windward School, and at the Marlborough School in Hancock Park, Los Angeles. She attended Yale University where she was a member of the Manuscript Society, and graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre.[7]

Career

2000s

After her film debut in 2003 as Samantha in Swordswallowers and Thin Men, Kazan had her first professional stage role in the 2006 off-Broadway revival of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Cynthia Nixon.

In 2007, she had a small role in The Savages, starring Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and guest-appeared in an episode of Medium. She next appeared in the films Fracture and In the Valley of Elah. That fall, she returned to the stage in a The New Group production of 100 Saints You Should Know and Jonathan Marc Sherman's Things We Want, directed by Ethan Hawke.

In January 2008, Kazan made her Broadway debut opposite S. Epatha Merkerson and Kevin Anderson in a revival of William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba. Ben Brantley of The New York Times called her performance "first-rate", adding, "Ms. Kazan is terrific in conveying the character's self-consciousness."[8] In the fall, she appeared on stage as Masha in a Broadway revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull opposite Kristin Scott Thomas, Carey Mulligan, and Peter Sarsgaard.[9] That year she also had roles in August, Me and Orson Welles and Revolutionary Road.

Kazan is also a playwright. In 2009, her play Absalom premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky. The play, about a father's tense relationships with his children, had been extensively read and workshopped since Kazan's junior year at Yale.[10] She ended the year playing Meryl Streep's daughter in the Nancy Meyers comedy It's Complicated. She appeared in the Broadway production of A Behanding in Spokane with Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell until June 6, 2010. She also had lead roles in the movies I Hate Valentine's Day and The Exploding Girl, both released in 2009.

2010s

In 2010, she had a main role in the comedy-drama Happy. Thank You. More. Please. as Mary Catherine, the cousin of Josh Radnor's character. She also starred as Millie Gately in 2010 (alongside Paul Dano, playing her husband) in Kelly Reichardt's independent Western drama Meek's Cutoff. In the fall, Kazan played Harper Pitt in Signature Theatre Company's 20th-anniversary production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America.[11] On the small screen, she appeared in four episodes of HBO's Bored to Death as Nina, the love interest of a fictionalized Jonathan Ames, played by Jason Schwartzman.

Her play We Live Here, about a dysfunctional family, received its world premiere production from October 12 to November 6, 2011 at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theater Club in New York City.[12] Among the ensemble cast was Amy Irving, and the director was 2010 Obie Award winner Sam Gold.

Kazan's next project, for which she wrote the screenplay, was Ruby Sparks, a comedy-romance film directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and starring Kazan, Paul Dano, Chris Messina, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Deborah Ann Woll and Steve Coogan.[13][14]

In 2014, her third play, Trudy and Max in Love, opened at the South Coast Repertory.[15] Also in 2014, she starred in the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series.

In 2017, Kazan co-starred in the critically acclaimed independent film The Big Sick with Kumail Nanjiani and Holly Hunter. In 2018, Wildlife was released to great critical acclaim. Kazan co-wrote the film with her partner Paul Dano, who also directed. It stars Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. Kazan then starred in Joel and Ethan Coen's Western anthology film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, in the vignette "The Gal Who Got Rattled". Many critics considered her performance one of the film's highlights.

2020

In 2020, Kazan starred in the limited series The Plot Against America as Elizabeth "Bess" Levin, a version of the mother of author Philip Roth, on whose book the show was based. It debuted on HBO, and also featured Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, and John Turturro.[6]

Kazan starred in Clickbait, a limited series for Netflix;[16] and the film She Said, portraying Jodi Kantor.[17]

Personal life

Kazan has been in a relationship with actor Paul Dano since 2007.[18][19] They have a daughter, Alma Bay.[20] They had a second child in late October 2022.[21]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Swordswallowers and Thin Men	Samantha
2007	The Savages	Student
	Fracture	Mona
	In the Valley of Elah	Angie
2008	August	Gal Employee
	Me and Orson Welles	Gretta Adler
	Revolutionary Road	Maureen Grube
2009	The Exploding Girl	Ivy
	The Private Lives of Pippa Lee	Grace Lee
	I Hate Valentine's Day	Tammy Greenwood
	It's Complicated	Gabby Adler
2010	Happy. Thank You. More. Please.	Mary Catherine
	Meek's Cutoff	Millie Gately
2012	Ruby Sparks	Ruby	Also writer and executive producer
2013	Some Girl(s)	Reggie
	The Pretty One	Laurel/Audrey
	The F Word (aka What If)	Chantry
2014	In Your Eyes	Rebecca Porter
2015	Our Brand Is Crisis	LeBlanc
2016	My Blind Brother	Francie
	The Monster	Kathy
2017	The Big Sick	Emily Gardner
2018	Wildlife	—	Co-writer and executive producer
	The Ballad of Buster Scruggs	Alice Longabaugh	Segment: "The Gal Who Got Rattled"
2019	The Kindness of Strangers	Clara
2021	Cryptozoo	Magdalene	Voice
2022	She Said	Jodi Kantor

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Medium	Izzy	Episode: "The Boy Next Door"
2008	Speechless	Stood Up Girl #2	Documentary
	After Iraq	Herself	Documentary
2010	Bored to Death	Nina	4 episodes
2011	Showing Up	Herself	Documentary
2014	Olive Kitteridge	Denise Thibodeau	2 episodes
2015	The Walker	Dotty	8 episodes
2017–19	The Deuce	Andrea Martino	8 episodes
2020	The Plot Against America	Elizabeth Levin	6 episodes
2021	Clickbait	Pia Brewer	8 episodes
2022	The Last Movie Stars	Jackie Witte (voice)	6 episodes

Theatre roles

Year	Title	Role	Playwright	Venue	Notes
2006	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Sandy	Muriel Spark	Acorn Theatre, Off-Broadway	[22]
2007	100 Saints You Should Know	Abby	Kate Fodor	Playwrights Horizons, Off-Broadway	[23]
	Things We Want	Stella	Jonathan Marc Sherman	Acorn Theatre, Off-Broadway	[24]
2008	Come Back, Little Sheba	Marie	William Inge	Biltmore Theatre, Broadway	[8]
	The Seagull	Masha	Anton Chekov	Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway	[25]
2009	Absalom	—	Zoe Kazan	Actors Theatre of Louisville	[26]
2010	A Behanding in Spokane	Marilyn	Martin McDonagh	Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway	[27]
	Angels in America	Harper Pitt	Tony Kushner	Signature Theatre, Off-Broadway	[28]
2011	We Live Here	—	Zoe Kazan	Manhattan Theater Club	[29]
2013	Clive	Joanne	Jonathan Marc Sherman	Acorn Theatre, Off-Broadway	[30]
2014	Trudy and Max in Love	—	Zoe Kazan	South Coast Repertory	[15]
	When We Were Young and Unafraid	Mary Anne	Sarah Treem	Manhattan Theater Club, Off-Broadway	[31]
2016	Love Love Love	Rose	Mike Bartlett	Roundabout Theatre, Off-Broadway	[32]
2017	After the Blast	—	Zoe Kazan	Lincoln Center Theatre	[33]

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
2009	National Board of Review	Best Cast	It's Complicated	Won
2012	Detroit Film Critics Society	Breakthrough Performance	Ruby Sparks	Won
	Saturn Awards	Best Actress		Nominated
	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Screenplay		Nominated
2015	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie	Olive Kitteridge	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated
2017	Critics' Choice Movie Awards	Best Actress in a Comedy	The Big Sick	Nominated
	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture		Nominated

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References

External links

Media related to Zoe Kazan at Wikimedia Commons

• Zoe Kazan at IMDb
• Zoe Kazan at the Internet Broadway Database
• Zoe Kazan at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

На других языках

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[de] Zoe Kazan

Zoe Swicord Kazan (* 9. September 1983 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, Drehbuchautorin und Dramatikerin.

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[es] Zoe Kazan

Zoe Swicord Kazan (Los Ángeles, California; 9 de septiembre de 1983), más conocida como Zoe Kazan, es una actriz, guionista y dramaturga estadounidense conocida por participar en Ruby Sparks (2012), What If (2013) y en La balada de Buster Scruggs (2018).

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[ru] Казан, Зои

Зои Сва́йкорд Каза́н (англ. Zoe Swicord Kazan; род. 9 сентября 1983 (1983-09-09), Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния, США) — американская актриса и сценаристка.

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