Gossip Girl of the Week: Zoe Kazan

CURRENT GIG "A Behanding in Spokane," the first of Martin McDonagh's plays to be set in the United States. Playing a young con artist with a human hand to sell, she stars with Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell and Anthony Mackie.

AGE 26

BORN AND RAISED Los Angeles

ALMA MATER Yale, class of 2005

SOCIAL STATUS Single. Long-term relationship with Paul Dano.

CLAIM TO FAME AT BIRTH Her grandfather was Elia Kazan.

THE GENERATION BETWEEN Her parents are the screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord.

BIG STAGE ROLES BEFORE THIS Masha in "The Seagull" and the college-girl boarder in "Come Back, Little Sheba," both in 2008.

MEMORABLE MOVIE ROLE "Revolutionary Road" (2008). She played Maureen Grube, the vulnerable secretary who has a meaningless office affair with Leonardo DiCaprio.

CUTE BUT LESS MEMORABLE MOVIE ROLE Meryl Streep's youngest daughter in "It's Complicated" (2009).

FIRST NUDE SCENE "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (2006), Off Broadway.


"A Behanding in Spokane," by Martin McDonagh, directed by John Crowley, Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, 236 West 45th Street, (212) 239-6200. Opening night: March 4, 2010.