Zoe Kazan Trivia | 35 facts about the actress

Zoe Kazan is an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter, who made her acting debut in the film Swordswallowers and Thin Men (2003).

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1. Her full name is Zoe Swicord Kazan.
2. She was born on September 9th, 1983 in Los Angeles
3. Her parents were the screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord.
4. Her sister, Maya Kazan, is also an actress.
5. Her paternal grandparents were film and theatre director Elia Kazan and playwright Molly Kazan.
6. Elia was an Anatolian Greek emigrant from Istanbul, while Molly was a Mayflower descendant. The family surname was originally Kazantzoglou.
7. Kazan was educated at the private Wildwood School, Windward School, and at the Marlborough School in Hancock Park, Los Angeles.
8. She attended Yale University.
9. She was a member of the Manuscript Society, and graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre.
10. She is an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter.
11. She made her acting debut in the film Swordswallowers and Thin Men (2003).
12. She later appeared in films such as The Savages (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008), and It’s Complicated (2009).
13. She starred in Happythankyoumoreplease (2010), Meek’s Cutoff (2010), Ruby Sparks (2012), and What If (2013).
14. In 2014 she appeared in the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, for which she received an Emmy nomination.
15. She portrayed Emily Gardner in the film The Big Sick (2017).
16. In 2018 she appeared in the Coen Brothers film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in the episode “The Gal Who Got Rattled”.
17. She has appeared in several Broadway productions.
18. She also wrote Ruby Sparks.
19. She co-wrote Wildlife (2018) with her partner Paul Dano.
20. Together they co-starred in Ruby Sparks.
21. In 2020, she co-starred in the HBO miniseries The Plot Against America.
22. In 2021, she co-starred as Pia Brewer in the Netflix limited series Clickbait.
23. Her height is 1,63 m.
24. She was considered one of the “55 Faces of the Future” by Nylon Magazine’s Young Hollywood Issue.
25. She is in a long-term relationship with Paul Dano since 2007.
26. Together they have a daughter together, Alma Bay Dano. Their daughter was born at the end of August 2018.
27. She was cast as Iris West in a proposed Justice League film to be directed by George Miller in 2007 but it was cancelled.
28. Some of the causes she has spoken against out through her platforms include racism and sexism.
29. Zoe Kazan will star along her friend Carey Mulligan in the new movie titled «She Said», that revolves around true events about the #MeToo movement.
30. She likes to read a wide variety of books and sometimes shares photos of her favorites on social media.
31. For several years, she battled with anorexia.
32. In an article for The New York Times, Zoe said, “The causes for my eating disorder ran along the usual lines: depression, an inability to express my rage, a desire to exert control, a desire to feel less, a desire to have my body express the things my voice could not.”
33. She earned her first voice acting credit in 2021 with the film Cryptozoo.
34. Writing as a profession was never the plan. After seeing her parents work as writers when she was younger, she felt that it was a very lonely job and she wanted to do something that she felt gave her a better chance to express herself.
35. According to Forbes, Wikipedia, IMDB, and other reputable online sources, Zoe Kazan has an estimated net worth of $3 Million at the age of 38 years old in year 2022.