Zoe Lister-Jones attends the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards held in Santa Monica on February 25, 2024.
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Zoe Lister-Jones was proud to attend Sunday’s Spirit Awards for two reasons. First, this multi-hyphenate talent showed up in Santa Monica to support her two nominees for Roku. slip, an original series she created, starred in, and executive produced with a team that included Dakota Johnson. Reason number two: She did so by attending the event hand in hand with the new love of her life.
When the topic of her plus one came up during the interview, hollywood reporterLister-Jones, 41, responded with the big reveal: “I’m here, I’m queer, there’s some fear, but I’m over it.” Lister-Jones has a new relationship with filmmaker Sammy Cohen, who recently directed a film for Netflix. you are not invited to my bat mitzvahis a teen comedy starring Adam Sandler and his family, including his wife Jackie and daughters Sadie and Sunny. Mr. Cohen is also known for Hulu. crush Starring Rowan Blanchard, Auli’i Cravalho, and Isabella Ferreira.
Lister-Jones revealed her relationship status after being asked about the Spirit Awards’ gender-neutral performance category. “I’m so grateful to Film Independent for really being a pioneer in this field. All award shows should follow their example and make the categories genderless. I’m dating a non-binary person. I’m friends with so many non-binary people, and I think without a larger paradigm shift, a lot of doors will be closed to the voices that really matter,” she said.
Zoe Lister-Jones and Sammy Cohen at the Spirit Awards in Santa Monica.
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When asked to elaborate on their relationship, she said it was an exciting development. “They’re great filmmakers in their own right,” Lister-Jones said. He had previously dropped some hints, including a cheeky Instagram post in July last year with the caption, “Queer ultimatum #happypride.” “The Independent Spirit Awards are about independence of spirit. It’s about defying categorization. It’s about going against the formula. I’m really proud to be here in so many ways, both in terms of my career and where I stand in life.”
Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wynne attend movie premiere How it ends on July 15, 2021 in Los Angeles.
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Lister-Jones was previously married to film director Daryl Wynne. The couple had been together for 17 years and married for nine, and also worked as creative partners for much of that time. Lister-Jones filed for divorce in September 2022, citing “irreconcilable differences.”Appearing on Marc Maron’s show Oh my God! In a podcast from the previous year, she told the host that she was “in and out of open relationships” with Wine, despite the challenge of being jealous and “constantly involved” when Wine had relationships with others. He said he was doing it. “That’s why I have such indigestion,” she joked at the time.
However, they now have a good relationship. “Her ex-husband and I are still very close. We made a lot of movies together,” she continued. THRrelated dramas and other works breakup, consumption, roller vs. And recently, apocalyptic comedy How it ends. The latter film, which was released during the pandemic in 2021, featured cameos from many prominent actors and comedians close to the couple. Lister-Jones and Kylie Spaeny, Whitney Cummings, Nick Kroll, Bobby Lee, Fred Armisen, Glenn Howerton, Bradley Whitford, Ayo Edebiri, Olivia Wilde, Paul Downs, Ramone Morris, Starring Paul Scheer, Helen Hunt, Colin Hanks, and Charlie Day. , Mary Elizabeth Ellis and others.
New York native Lister-Jones’ career dates back to the early ’80s, and while she has appeared in numerous films and television shows as a full-time actress, she has also long directed her own projects as a screenwriter, producer, and screenwriter. director.Her acting credits include: Life in Pieces, Beau is Afraid, A Good People, New Girl, Conference, Whitney and good wife. Fun fact: She is also one of the few actresses to have appeared in a movie. Law and order from space criminal intent and jury trial Also original Special Victims Task Force.
Lister-Jones said of the current state of Hollywood: “It’s always liberating to be able to make your own work and it’s very exciting.” “[But] It takes a different kind of struggle and effort than ever before, and even for those of us who have continued to create things that don’t rely on microbudgets, we feel we need to step up even more to make a breakthrough. . ”
