Zoe Kazan

American actress

Person · Open Library

Born: 1983
Works: 3

Top works

After the blast
We live here
Absalom

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Film & TV

Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA

Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter. She made her acting debut in 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 Happy. Thank You. More. Please. (2010), Meek's Cutoff (2010), Ruby Sparks (2012), and What If (2013). In 2014…

Known for

She Said — Jodi Kantor2022
The Last Movie Stars — Self2022
The Last Movie Stars — Jackie McDonald (voice)2022
Cryptozoo — Magdalene (voice)2021
Clickbait — Pia Brewer2021
The Plot Against America — Bess Finkel2020
The Kindness of Strangers — Clara2019

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Zoe Swicord Kazan (/kəˈzæn/ kə-ZAN; born September 9, 1983) is an American actress and writer. She has 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 a revival of Anton Chekov's 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).