
Biography
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 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". 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.
Filmography37 titles

The Deuce

Olive Kitteridge

Medium

The Big Sick

Bored to Death

Fracture

She Said

Clickbait

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Ruby Sparks

Revolutionary Road

The Last Movie Stars

The Savages

In the Valley of Elah

The Plot Against America

What If

Wildlife

Causeway

Happythankyoumoreplease

Meek's Cutoff

It's Complicated

Me and Orson Welles

The Kindness of Strangers

The Pretty One

The Exploding Girl

Our Brand Is Crisis

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Cryptozoo

My Blind Brother

The Monster

I Hate Valentine's Day

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Late Night with Seth Meyers

August

Some Girl(S)

Off Camera with Sam Jones

The View