Zosia Mamet is an actress and musician who began acting in 1994 when she was aged 5. Two decades later and nearly 50 credits later, here is a long peep into the life that Zosia has lived, the family she has loved, the man she married, and the direction her career on TV, in films, and in singing has sailed.
Zosia Mamet – age, sister, parents
Zosia Mamet was born Zosia Russell Mamet in February 1988. She was born in the New England town of Randolph, Vermont. When she was five years old, her parents now divorced, her mother, Lindsay Crouse, moved with her two children to a place called Pacific Palisades in California. Lindsay Crouse is a retired actress. She made her debut on Broadway in 1972 before going on to feature on the screen for which she earned an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Grammy nomination. She is most known for her role in the 1984 film “Places in the Heart”. Crouse identifies as a Buddhist.
In 1977, Crouse got married to the playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet. He is most known for his writing and directing of the 2001 crime thriller film “Heist”. His other endeavors include “The Postman Always Rings Twice” which he wrote in 1981 and “Things Change” (1988) and “Homicide” (1991). He has a Pulitzer Prize for his 1984 play “Glengarry Glen Ross”. Born in Chicago, David Mamet is Jewish. His grandparents were Ashkenazi Jews from Poland.
His daughter Zosia identifies as a Jew and despite growing up with her mother says this of her father, “What’s very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I’ve ever met. He’s a great man and a very good dad.
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Mamet and Lindsay Crouse divorced in 1990. David remarried in 1991 to the actress, singer, and songwriter Rebecca Pidgeon. This union produced Clara Mamet who grew up to become a singer and actress. She teamed up with Zosia to form the music duo The Cabin Sister. They ran a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a music video and failed. Clara was in the comedy film “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” from 2016.
Lindsay remarried in 1998 to a Rick Blue.
Zosia Mamet – career
When Zosia Mamet finished high school, she decided that there was no need to further her education as she had already found her calling. She began acting in 1994 when she appeared on the TV film titled “Parallel Lives”.
In 2005, she was part of “The Unit” the action series on CBS. In 2010, she played the role of Courtney in the Showtime series “United States of Tara” which followed the life of Tara played by Toni Collete, a single mother of two who suffers multiple personality disorders. In the same 2010, Mamet played the role of Joyce Ramsay in the period drama on AMC “Mad Men”. For her role here, she has come out to say, “I did ‘Mad Men’ and I still have people come up to me like, ‘Are you actually a lesbian?’ Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they’re gonna think.”
Zosia Mamet was in the family comedy-drama “Parenthood” on NBC between 2010 and 2011. From 2012 to 2017, Zosia was on HBO’s comedy series “Girls” as a part of the main cast and one of the four girls for which the series was named. She was in all its six seasons, appearing in 48 of the entire 62 episodes.
Also a voice artist, Zosia lent her voice to the animated series “High School USA!” from 2013 and to “Star vs. the Forces of Evil” from 2016 to 2019.
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On the movie leg of her career, Zosia was in “Spartan” the action film written and directed by her father in 2004. More recently, She was the lead character, Diana, in the romantic comedy-drama “The Boys Downstairs” (2017) and in the neo-noir black comedy conspiracy thriller film “Under the Silver Lake”. Zosia’s most grossing film is the 2010 movie “The Kids Are All Right” which made 34.7 million dollars of a budget of 4 million.
On the music leg, Mamet’s career is overshadowed by her and her sister’s push to raise 32 thousand dollars to shoot the video of their music “Bleak Love”. They were unable to raise more than three thousand dollars and were widely criticized for this.
Spouse and net worth
Zosia Mamet is a married woman. She got married to the actor Evan Jonigkeit in 2016. The relationship began in 2013. You should know Evan Jonigkeit; he was in the film “X-Men: Days of Future Past” in 2014 and for playing Deputy Nick in the western horror film “Bone Tomahawk” 2015. Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Jonigkeit got a baseball scholarship to study at Temple University, Philpeldia but tendonitis ended his dream of being a sportsman and he settled for the theater.
Zosia Mamet who stands at 5 feet 4 inches (or 1.63 meters) is worth 3 million dollars.
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