Zoe Kazan Net Worth

What is Zoe Kazan's Net Worth?

Zoe Kazan is an actress, screenwriter, and playwright who has a net worth of $14 million. That is a combined net worth with her husband since 2007, fellow actor Paul Dano.

Zoe Kazan has appeared in such films as "It's Complicated," "Ruby Sparks," "The Big Sick," and "She Said," and on such television series as "Olive Kitteridge," "The Deuce," and "Clickbait." She has also acted extensively on stage, with credits including Broadway productions of "Come Back, Little Sheba," "A Behanding in Spokane," and "Doubt."

Early Life and Education

Zoe Kazan was born on September 9, 1983, in Los Angeles, California to filmmakers Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord. Her paternal grandparents were director Elia Kazan and playwright Molly Kazan. As a youth, Kazan attended Wildwood School, Windward School, and Marlborough School. For her higher education, she went to Yale University, where she was a member of the Manuscript Society. Kazan graduated from Yale in 2005 with a degree in theater.

Film Career

Zoe Kazan made her screen-acting debut in the 2003 film "Swordswallowers and Thin Men." She next had supporting roles in "Fracture" and "In the Valley of Elah," both in 2007. The year after that, Kazan was in the period dramas "Me and Orson Welles" and "Revolutionary Road." Concluding the decade, she starred in "The Exploding Girl" and had supporting parts in the romantic comedies "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," "I Hate Valentine's Day," and "It's Complicated." Kazan went on to have major roles in the 2010 films "Happythankyoumoreplease" and "Meek's Cutoff," the latter featuring her boyfriend Paul Dano. She and Dano reunited for the 2012 fantasy romcom "Ruby Sparks," which Kazan also wrote. For her screenplay, about a novelist whose fictional character comes to life, Kazan earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination. She went on to star in three films in 2013: "Some Girl(s)," "The Pretty One," and "The F Word."

In 2014, Kazan starred opposite Michael Stahl-David in the paranormal romance film "In Your Eyes." She followed that in 2015 with a supporting role in the Sandra Bullock film "Our Brand is Crisis." In 2016, Kazan starred in the horror film "The Monster" and had a supporting part in the romantic dramedy "My Blind Brother." She had one of her biggest hits the next year, starring opposite Kumail Nanjiani in the romantic dramedy "The Big Sick" as Emily Gardner, a fictionalized version of Nanjiani's wife Emily V. Gordon. The film was a critical and commercial smash. Kazan next appeared in the Coen brothers' 2018 Western anthology film "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs." The same year, she co-wrote the screenplay to "Wildlife" with Paul Dano, who directed the film. Based on the 1990 novel by Richard Ford, it was a critical success. Kazan closed out the decade with a starring role in "The Kindness of Strangers." In the early 2020s, she lent her voice to the adult animated film "Cryptozoo" and starred opposite Carey Mulligan in the journalism biopic "She Said."

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Television Career

Kazan had her first television role in an episode of "Medium" in 2007. Three years later, she played the love interest of Jason Schwartzman's protagonist in the second season of the HBO series "Bored to Death." Kazan gave one of her most lauded performances in 2014, playing Denise Thibodeau in the HBO miniseries adaptation of the novel "Olive Kitteridge." For her work, she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie. Remaining with HBO, Kazan played the recurring role of Andrea Martino on the series "The Deuce," which ran from 2017 to 2019. After that, she starred in the HBO miniseries adaptation of Philip Roth's novel "The Plot Against America." In 2021, Kazan starred in the Netflix miniseries "Clickbait," and in 2022 she voiced Jackie Witte in the documentary miniseries "The Last Movie Stars." Kazan went on to write a limited-series adaptation of "East of Eden" for Netflix. Her father had adapted the book into a film in 1955.

Stage Career

Kazan made her professional stage debut in an off-Broadway revival of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 2006. She continued acting off-Broadway in 2007 in the plays "100 Saints You Should Know" and "Things We Want," the former of which garnered her a Drama Desk Award nomination. In 2008, Kazan made her Broadway debut in a revival of "Come Back, Little Sheba," and followed that with a role in the Broadway revival of "The Seagull." For the latter, she received her second Drama Desk Award nomination. In 2009, Kazan debuted her first work as a playwright, "Absalom," at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The following year, she appeared in the Broadway premiere of Martin McDonagh's "A Behanding in Spokane" and an off-Broadway anniversary production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America."

Kazan premiered her second play as a playwright, "We Live Here," at Manhattan Theater Club in 2011. She then wrote "Trudy and Max in Love," which premiered at South Coast Repertory in California in 2014. Also that year, Kazan appeared off-Broadway in "When We Were Young and Unafraid." In 2016, she acted in "Love Love Love," and in 2017 she premiered her new play "After the Blast" on Broadway. Following a break from the stage, Kazan returned in 2024 to act opposite Amy Ryan and Liev Schreiber in a revival of John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt."

Personal Life

Kazan has been in a relationship with fellow actor Paul Dano since 2007. They had their first child, a daughter, in 2018, followed by a son in 2022.

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