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Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress and playwright. Kazan was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, and the granddaughter of film and theatre director Elia Kazan. She was educated at the private Windward School in Mar Vista and Marlborough School in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, and Yale University, from which she graduated in 2005. After her film debut in 2003 playing Samantha in Swordswallowers and Thin Men, Kazan went on to play her first professional stage role in the 2006 off-Broadway revival of The Prime of... MORE

Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress and playwright. Kazan was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, and the granddaughter of film and theatre director Elia Kazan. She was educated at the private Windward School in Mar Vista and Marlborough School in Hancock Park, Los Angeles, and Yale University, from which she graduated in 2005. After her film debut in 2003 playing Samantha in Swordswallowers and Thin Men, Kazan went on to play her first professional stage role in the 2006 off-Broadway revival of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie starring Cynthia Nixon. In 2007 she had a small role in The Savages, which starred Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman. She also guest appeared in an episode of supernatural drama Medium as a friend of the main character's younger self. She next appeared in the films Fracture and In the Valley of Elah. In the fall of the same year, she returned to the stage in a Playwrights Horizons production of 100 Saints You Should Know and Jonathan Marc Sherman's Things We Want, directed by Ethan Hawke. In January 2008, Kazan made her Broadway debut opposite S. Epatha Merkerson and Kevin LESS