Zoe Kazan | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

Highest Rated: 98% The Big Sick (2017)

Lowest Rated: 19% I Hate Valentine's Day (2009)

Birthday: Sep 9, 1983

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

Though initially reluctant to be a part of show business, actress and writer Zoe Kazan - daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, and granddaughter of director Elia Kazan - nonetheless entered the family business, finding success both in front of and behind the cameras. After making her film debut in 2003, Kazan began her professional career in earnest with small roles in "Fracture" (2007) and "In the Valley of Elah" (2007), while marking her Broadway debut in a revival of "Come Back, Little Sheba" (2008). As a noted playwright, her drama "Absalom" premiered to positive reviews in 2009, though she created major buzz with her screenplay for "Ruby Sparks" (2012), a romantic comedy that starred real-life beau Paul Dano and earned her substantial critical acclaim. Though she came from a long line of show business players, Kazan blazed her own path as an actress and screenwriter, possessing the critical talent to be a success in her own right.

Highest rated movies

98% 88% The Big Sick Watchlist 94% 72% Wildlife Watchlist 89% 78% The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Watchlist 88% 91% She Said Watchlist 86% 53% Meek's Cutoff Watchlist 86% 61% Me and Orson Welles Watchlist 81% 56% My Blind Brother Watchlist 79% 40% The Monster Watchlist 79% 75% Ruby Sparks Watchlist 76% 55% The Exploding Girl Watchlist

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Zoe Kazan RUBY SPARKS, from left: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, 2012. ph: Merrick Morton/TM and ©Fox Searchlight Pictures. All rights reserved. WHAT IF, (aka THE F WORD), from left: Zoe Kazan, Daniel Radcliffe, 2013. ph: Caitlin Cronenberg/©CBS Films THE BIG SICK, FROM LEFT: KUMAIL NANJIANI, WRITER EMILY V. GORDON, ZOE KAZAN ON SET, 2017. PH: NICOLE RIVELLI/© LIONSGATE THE BIG SICK, FROM LEFT: ZOE KAZAN, KUMAIL NANJIANI, 2017. PH: SARAH SHATZ/© LIONSGATE THE BIG SICK, FROM LEFT: DIRECTOR MICHAEL SHOWALTER, KUMAIL NANJIANI, ZOE KAZAN, ON SET, 2017. PH: SARAH SHATZ/© LIONSGATE MEEK'S CUTOFF, British poster art, clockwise from top left: Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Zoe Kazan, Will Patton, 2010. ©Oscilloscope Pictures RUBY SPARKS, Zoe Kazan, 2012. ph: Merrick Morton. TM and ©Fox Searchlight Pictures. All rights reserved. RUBY SPARKS, from left: Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, 2012. ph: Merrick Morton.TM and ©Fox Searchlight Pictures. All rights reserved. RUBY SPARKS, from left: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, 2012. ph: Merrick Morton. TM and ©Fox Searchlight Pictures. All rights reserved. View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
88% 91% She Said Jodi Kantor (Character) $5.8M 2022
71% 58% Cryptozoo Magdalene (Voice) $32.3K 2021
31% 85% The Kindness of Strangers Clara (Character) - 2019
89% 78% The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Alice Longabaugh (Segment "The Gal Who Got Rattled") (Character) - 2018
94% 72% Wildlife Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
$1.0M 2018
98% 88% The Big Sick Emily (Character) $42.9M 2017
79% 40% The Monster Kathy (Character) $12.1K 2016
81% 56% My Blind Brother Francie (Character) - 2016
36% 34% Our Brand Is Crisis LeBlanc (Character) $7.0M 2015
61% 69% In Your Eyes Rebecca (Character) - 2014
74% 69% What If Chantry (Character) $3.5M 2013
50% 46% The Pretty One Laurel/Audrey (Character) $11.2K 2013
53% 16% Some Girl(s) Reggie (Character) - 2013
79% 75% Ruby Sparks Ruby Sparks (Character),
Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
$2.5M 2012
86% 53% Meek's Cutoff Millie Gately (Character) $977.6K 2010
43% 60% Happythankyoumoreplease Mary Catherine (Character) $215.6K 2010
76% 55% The Exploding Girl Ivy (Character) $22.2K 2009
59% 60% It's Complicated Gabby (Character) $112.7M 2009
69% 50% The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Grace Lee (Character) - 2009
19% 28% I Hate Valentine's Day Tammy Greenwood (Character) $10.1K 2009
86% 61% Me and Orson Welles Gretta Adle (Character) $1.2M 2008
67% 71% Revolutionary Road Maureen Grube (Character) $22.9M 2008
72% 73% Fracture Mona (Character) $39.0M 2007

TV

Credit
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2017 2022
No Score Yet 12% The View Guest 2022
100% 81% The Last Movie Stars Unknown (Character) 2022
59% 62% Clickbait Pia Brewer (Character) 2021
87% 72% The Plot Against America Elizabeth "Bess" Levin (Character) 2020
93% 86% The Deuce Andrea Martino (Guest Star) 2019
No Score Yet 19% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2018
No Score Yet 49% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2017
94% 96% Olive Kitteridge Denise Thibodeau (Character) 2014
No Score Yet 41% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2012
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