Zoe Kazan

Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress and playwright.

Early life and education

Kazan was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, and the granddaughter of film and theatre director Elia Kazan. She was educated at the private Windward School in Mar Vista and Marlborough School in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, and Yale University, from which she graduated in 2005.

Acting career

Her first professional stage credit was the 2006 off-Broadway revival of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie starring Cynthia Nixon. She followed this with the Playwrights Horizons 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."In the fall of the same year, she appeared on Broadway as Masha in......
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