Zoe Kazan

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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.

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2026
East of Eden
TV show Executive Producer
2022
She Said
Movie Jodi Kantor
2022
Causeway
Movie Thanks
2022
The Last Movie Stars
TV show Self
2021
Clickbait
TV show Pia Brewer
2021
Cryptozoo
Movie Magdalene (voice)
2020
The Plot Against America
TV show Bess Finkel
2019
The Kindness of Strangers
Movie Clara
2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Movie Alice Longabaugh (segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled")
2018
Wildlife
Movie Executive Producer
2017
The Deuce
TV show Andrea Martino
2017
The Big Sick
Movie Emily Gardner
2016
The Monster
Movie Kathy
2016
My Blind Brother
Movie Francie
2015
Our Brand Is Crisis
Movie LeBlanc
2014
Olive Kitteridge
TV show Denise Thibodeau