Zoe Swicord Kazan was born in Los Angeles, California, to screenwriters 'Nicholas Kazan' in The New Group's production of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". She returned to the stage in the fall of 2007 in Playwrights Horizon's production of "100 Saints You Should Know" and in the New Group's "Things We Want". She lives in Brooklyn.
Granddaughter of Elia Kazan.
Daughter of Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord.
Was considered one of the "55 Faces of the Future" by Nylon Magazines Young Hollywood Issue.
She and boyfriend Paul Dano shot the movie, Ruby Sparks , which Zoe wrote and in which they co-star.
Good friends with Carey Mulligan.
Lives with boyfriend, Paul Dano.
She has Greek (from her paternal grandfather), English, and German ancestry.
(January 2008) Broadway - currently making her Broadway debut, playing "Marie" in "Come Back, Little Sheba", starring S. Epatha Merkerson , at Manhattan Theatre Club (Biltmore Theatre, NYC).
(August 2011) New York, USA: Her play We Live Here, commissioned by the Manhattan Theater Club, will premiere there in September.
(October 2004) A senior at Yale University.
(November 2008) She is currently in "The Seagull" on Broadway
She was cast as Iris West in a proposed Justice League film to be directed by George Miller in 2007 but it was canceled.
[on taking up screen-writing] We are in the most insane waiting game of,a business, and the only way I have stayed sane is by giving myself,another creative outlet.
