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Zoe Kazan

Zoe Kazan

7 films · 491 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20082022

Born 9 September 1983 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Zoe Swicord Kazan is an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter. She made her acting debut in Swordswallowers and Thin Men (2003) and later appeared in films such as The Savages (2007), Revolutionary Road (2008), and It's Complicated (2009). She starred in Happy. Thank You. More. Please. (2010), Meek's Cutoff (2010), Ruby Sparks (2012), and What If (2013). In 2014 she appeared in the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge, for which she received an Emmy nomination. She portrayed Emily Gardner in the film The Big Sick (2017), and in 2018 appeared in the Coen Brothers film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in the episode "The Gal Who Got Rattled".

She has appeared in several Broadway productions.

How their films are shot

Measured across 491 frames from the 7 films we hold. This is the look of the work Zoe takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 7 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 46% natural — the look of the work Zoe takes.

Time of day

Day48%
Night42%
Interior7%

Lighting

Natural46%
Low key34%
High key18%

Shot size

Medium57%
Wide21%
Closeup11%
Fullbody7%

Camera angle

Eye level93%
High angle4%

Mood

Neutral76%
Tense10%
Lonely8%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 491 frames from Zoe Kazan's 7 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.