Maya Kazan


Maya Kazan is an American stage, TV and film actress and director. She is known for playing Eleanor Gallinger on The Knick and Mabel Thompson on Boardwalk Empire. She is the daughter of screenwriters Nicholas Kazan and Robin Swicord, and the granddaughter of film director Elia Kazan 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, written by David Ives at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.
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.
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."

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. 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

YearTitleRoleNotes
2013Company TownMarla'
2014Boardwalk EmpireMabel Thompson4 episodes
2014–15The KnickEleanor Gallinger13 episodes
2015–16Sleepy HollowZoe CorinthRecurring
2017Jane The VirginChloeRecurring
2017'Livye HartRecurring
2018MosaicLaura Hurley