1. Zoe Swicord Kazan is an American actress and writer.
22 Facts About Zoe Kazan
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Zoe Kazan has acted in films such as The Savages, Revolutionary Road, and It's Complicated.
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Zoe Kazan starred in Happythankyoumoreplease, Meek's Cutoff, Ruby Sparks, What If, The Big Sick, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Zoe Kazan Said.
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Zoe Kazan wrote Ruby Sparks and co-wrote Wildlife with her partner Paul Dano.
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Zoe Kazan has since acted in the Anton Chekov revival of The Seagull, Martin McDonagh's A Behanding in Spokane, and the revival of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt: A Parable.
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Zoe Kazan was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Zoe Kazan and Robin Swicord.
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Zoe Kazan was educated at the private Wildwood School, Windward School, and at the Marlborough School in Hancock Park, Los Angeles.
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Zoe Kazan attended Yale University, where she was a member of the Manuscript Society, and graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in theatre.
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Zoe Kazan next appeared in the films Fracture and In the Valley of Elah.
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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.
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Zoe Kazan ended the year playing Meryl Streep's daughter in the Nancy Meyers romantic comedy It's Complicated starring Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.
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Zoe Kazan returned to Broadway acting in a production of Martin McDonagh's play A Behanding in Spokane with Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell until June 6,2010.
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Zoe Kazan had lead roles in the movies I Hate Valentine's Day and The Exploding Girl, both in 2009.
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Zoe Kazan starred as Millie Gately in Kelly Reichardt's independent Western drama Meek's Cutoff acting alongside Michelle Williams and Paul Dano.
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Zoe Kazan's starred in the title role of Ruby Sparks, a comedy-romance film directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and starring Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, Chris Messina, Antonio Banderas, Annette Bening, Deborah Ann Woll and Steve Coogan.
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Zoe Kazan wrote the film and served as its executive producer.
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Zoe Kazan received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay.
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In 2017, Zoe Kazan co-starred in independent romance drama film The Big Sick with Kumail Nanjiani, Holly Hunter, and Ray Romano.
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That same year Zoe Kazan starred in Joel and Ethan Coen's Western anthology film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, in the vignette "The Gal Who Got Rattled".
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In 2020, Zoe 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.
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Dalton Ross of Entertainment Weekly wrote of her performance, "Zoe Kazan deftly manages to convey Sister James' struggle between innocent naivety and the loss of inner light that comes with considering ugly possible truths".
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Zoe Kazan has been the parter of actor Paul Dano since 2007.