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 acted 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), What If (2013), The Big Sick (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and She Said (2022). She also wrote Ruby Sparks and co-wrote Wildlife (2018) with her partner Paul Dano.
Kazan made her Broadway debut in the revival of the William Inge play Come Back, Little Sheba (2008). She has since acted in the Anton Chekov revival of The Seagull (2008), Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane (2010), and the revival of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt: A Parable (2024). Also a playwright, she wrote Absalom (2008), We Live Here (2011), Trudy and Max in Love (2014), and After the Blast (2017).
On television, she acted in the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014), for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Her other television roles include in the HBO comedy series Bored to Death (2010), the HBO drama series The Deuce (2017–2019), the HBO miniseries The Plot Against America (2020), and the Netflix miniseries Clickbait (2021).
^Fisher, James (July 15, 2021). Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781538123027.
Zoe Swicord Kazan (/ˈkəˈzæn/; born September 9, 1983) is an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter. She made her acting debut in the film Swordswallowers...
Reversal of Fortune. In 1984, Kazan married screenwriter Robin Swicord. Their daughters are actresses ZoeKazan and Maya Kazan. Frances (1982) (with Christopher...
Sparks is a 2012 American romantic fantasy comedy-drama film written by ZoeKazan and directed by Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton. It stars Paul Dano...
drama film Wildlife (2018), which he also co-wrote with his partner, ZoeKazan. He has also written the comic book The Riddler: Year One (2022). On Broadway...
age of four The National Herald (December 14, 2020). "Elia Kazan's Granddaughter, ZoeKazan Among NY Times Magazine's Best Performers of 2020". The National...
in New York about her 2012 film Ruby Sparks, actress and screenwriter ZoeKazan expressed skepticism over the use of the term, noting that its use could...
and written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani. It stars Nanjiani, ZoeKazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Adeel Akhtar, and Anupam Kher. Gordon and Nanjiani...
Swicord is the wife of screenwriter Nicholas Kazan, and the mother of actresses ZoeKazan and Maya Kazan. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture...
directorial debut. The film features Radnor, Malin Åkerman, Kate Mara, ZoeKazan, Michael Algieri, Pablo Schreiber, and Tony Hale, in the story of a group...
LaMarque. The film stars ZoeKazan, Jake Johnson, Ron Livingston, Sterling Beaumon and John Carroll Lynch. Laurel and Audrey (ZoeKazan) are identical twins...
features an ensemble cast as Lake Bell, Michael Cera, Angeliki Papoulia, ZoeKazan, Peter Stormare, Grace Zabriskie, Louisa Krause and Thomas Jay Ryan. The...
the Palme d'Or in 2003. It stars Adam Scott, Nick Kroll, Jenny Slate, ZoeKazan and Charlie Hewson. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest...
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