Zane Buzby

Zane Buzby
Occupation	Actress, philanthropist, film director, television director
Website	www.survivormitzvah.org

Zane Buzby is an American actress, philanthropist, film director, and television director.

Zane Buzby grew up in New York and graduated with honors from Hofstra University with degrees in performance and dramatic literature. She began her show business career as a film editor working for The Beatles' Apple Films. Her first major acting credit was in the Carl Reiner film Oh, God! (1977). She later appeared in the films Up in Smoke (1978) (opposite Cheech & Chong), Americathon (1979) (opposite John Ritter), National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982) scripted by John Hughes, Jerry Lewis' film Cracking Up, and the Rob Reiner film This Is Spinal Tap (1984). She also co-starred in and directed the feature film comedy, Last Resort (1986), starring Charles Grodin.

She later became a television director mentored by James Burrows and producer Edgar J. Scherick. She went on to amass over 200 directing credits in episodic television, directing episodes of Dads, Married... with Children, Newhart, My Sister Sam, Head of the Class, My Two Dads, The Van Dyke Show, Charles in Charge, The Golden Girls, Blossom, and Sister, Sister. Buzby also directed HBO's "Women of the Night" starring Martin Short, Joy Behar, Ellen DeGeneres, Rita Rudner and Judy Tenuta. Buzby had a television production/development deal at Paramount where she executive-produced several television pilots.