Maya Kazan
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Kazan at the Peabody Award, May 2015
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Born | Los Angeles, California, United States |
November 24, 1986
Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2008–present |
Parent(s) | Robin Swicord Nicholas Kazan |
Relatives | Zoe Kazan (sister) Elia Kazan (grandfather) Molly Kazan (grandmother) |
Maya Kazan (born November 24, 1986)[1][2] is an American stage, TV and film actress and director. She is known for the roles of Caroline in the film Frances Ha and on TV shows playing Eleanor Gallinger on The Knick and Mabel Thompson on Boardwalk Empire. She is the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord. She is the granddaughter of film director Elia Kazan[3] and playwright Molly Kazan. Maya is the younger sister of actress Zoe Kazan.
Career
Theater
In 2012, Kazan starred as Lucrece in Pierre Corneille's The Liar, directed by David Ives at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.[4][5]
In 2013, she played the role of Laura in Michael Rabe's play The Future Is Not What It Was at the Walkerspace theater in New York.[6][7][8]
In 2014, she took on the role of the adult Perdita in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at the Old Globe Theater. In a February 2014 Los Angeles Times review, critic Charles McNulty wrote: "Kazan doesn't yet possess a strong stage voice, but she has everything else that's needed to make us fall in love with Perdita — natural radiance, unassuming intelligence and gentleness."[9]
Television
In 2014, Kazan landed a recurring role as Eleanor Gallinger in Steven Soderbergh's The Knick on Cinemax alongside co-stars Clive Owen, Eve Hewson and Grainger Hines.[10] That same year, she landed another recurring role on HBO's Boardwalk Empire playing Mabel Thompson, the wife of a young Nucky Thompson, in a string of flashbacks throughout the series' fifth and final season.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2008 | Christie Mae | Christie Mae | (short film) |
2008 | Lenore | Lenore | (short film) |
2009 | I'll Never Smile Again | Amy | (short film) |
2011 | Love Is Like Life But Longer | Young nun | (short film) |
2011 | Three Things | (short film) | |
2012 | Trial by Combat | Emily | (short film) |
2012 | Every Saturday | Hannah | |
2012 | Where the Sharpest Knife was Kept | Carla | (short film) |
2012 | Frances Ha | Caroline | |
2013 | Blood Moon | Manya | |
2015 | Prism | Jewels |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2013 | Company Town | Marla | (TV film) |
2014 | The Knick | Eleanor Gallinger | Episodes: "Ten Knots" "Crutchfield" "The Golden Lotus" "Working Late a Lot" "Start Calling Me Dad" "They Capture the Heat" "Where's the Dignity" "The Busy Flea" "Mr. Paris Shoes" "Not Well at All" |
2014 | Boardwalk Empire | Mabel Thompson | Episodes: "Eldorado" "Friendless Child" "Devil You Know" "King of Norway" |
2015-16 | Sleepy Hollow | Zoe Corinth | Recurring (Season 3) |
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External links
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- Maya Kazan - Official website
- Maya Kazan on the Internet Movie Database
- Maya Kazan News on broadwayworld.com
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- 1986 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American actresses
- Actresses from Los Angeles, California
- Actresses of Greek descent
- American film actresses
- American people of English descent
- American people of German descent
- American people of Greek descent
- American stage actresses
- American television actresses
- Wesleyan University alumni