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My Take
Zoe Kazan strikes me as one of the most quietly versatile figures of her generation, a Yale-educated writer who also happens to be a wonderfully unguarded screen presence. Ruby Sparks remains my touchstone: she wrote herself a role that interrogates the very fantasy she might otherwise be typecast as, which takes both wit and nerve. In The Big Sick and She Said she serves the ensemble without grabbing for the spotlight. I admire that she treats acting, screenwriting, and playwriting as one continuous craft rather than a brand, earning her place on merit, project after project.
Overview
Zoe Swicord Kazan ( kə-ZAN; born September 9, 1983) is an American actress and writer. She has acted in films such as The Savages (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008), and It's Complicated (2009). She starred in Happythankyoumoreplease (2010), Meek's Cutoff (2010), Ruby Sparks (2012), What If (2013), The Big Sick (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and She Said (2022).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Zoe Kazan
- Name (Japanese)
- ゾーイ・カザン
- Reading
- ぞーい・かざん
- Born
- September 9, 1983 (age 42)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Boar
- Origin
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / screenwriter / playwright / stage actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Yale University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.