The actress who made her acting debut in "Swordswallowers and Thin Men" also portrayed Emily Gardner in a film directed by who?
Zoe Kazan Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress and playwright. Kazan 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 "happythankyoumoreplease" (2010), "Meek's Cutoff" (2010) and "Ruby Sparks" (2012), writing the screenplay for the latter. In 2014, she starred in the film "What If" and the HBO mini-series "Olive Kitteridge", for which she received an Emmy nomination. In 2017, she portrayed Emily Gardner, who is based on Emily V. Gordon, in the film "The Big Sick".
Female Perversions Female Perversions is a 1996 drama film, the first feature directed by Susan Streitfeld, which stars Tilda Swinton, Amy Madigan, Karen Sillas, Frances Fisher, Paulina Porizkova and Clancy Brown. It draws on insights from the 1991 book "Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary" by the New York psychoanalyst Louise J. Kaplan (1929-2012). Aspects of female psychology, particularly the more morbid, are explored through the interactions of the characters and through their fantasies.