Zoe Kazan
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Zoe Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress, the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord and the granddaughter of film and theatre director Elia Kazan.
A Los Angeles native, Kazan was educated at the private Windward School in Mar Vista and Yale University, from which she graduated in 2005. 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." [1]
Kazan was featured in three 2007 films - The Savages, Fracture, and In the Valley of Elah - and appears in the forthcoming August and Revolutionary Road.
Kazan lives in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn.
