Actor

Kim Krizan

November 1, 1961 · Hawthorne, California, USA

Kim Krizan is an American writer best known for her work on Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award (for Best Adapted Screenplay) and a Writers Guild Award. Krizan was featured in Richard Linklater's Slacker (1991) and Waking Life (2001). She is also known for her part in Dazed and Confused (1993) in which she plays a high school teacher who informs her students that the 1976 Bicentennial celebrates "a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic white males who didn't want to pay their taxes."

In 2007, Krizan was selected as spokesperson for the screenwriting software Final Draft.

Notable work

8
Before Sunrise (1995)
Writer
7.3
Dazed and Confused (1993)
as Ms. Stroud
6.7
Slacker (1990)
as Questions Happiness

Often works with

Julie Delpy
2 titles together
Before Sunrise, Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
Matthew McConaughey
2 titles together
Dazed and Confused, Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
Wiley Wiggins
2 titles together
Dazed and Confused, Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
Richard Linklater
2 titles together
Slacker, Linklater: St. Richard of Austin

Full filmography · 5

Language is Dead
as Therapist
2017
Linklater: St. Richard of Austin
as (Footage from 'Dazed and Confused' and from 'Waking Life')
2004
Before Sunrise
Writer
19958
Dazed and Confused
as Ms. Stroud
19937.3
Slacker
as Questions Happiness
19906.7