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.
Ruby Sparks
2012
What If
2013
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
Our Brand Is Crisis
2015
Revolutionary Road
2008
Fracture
2007
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
She Said
2022
It's Complicated
2009
The Savages
2007
The Big Sick
2017
The Kindness of Strangers
2019
In the Valley of Elah
2007
Happythankyoumoreplease
2011
Meek's Cutoff
2011
Showing Up
2014
In Your Eyes
2014
The Monster
2016
Me and Orson Welles
2008
The Pretty One
2014
My Blind Brother
2016
August
2008
Cryptozoo
2021
Some Girl(s)
2013
I Hate Valentine's Day
2009
The Exploding Girl
2010