Kate Mara

She has since appeared in Brokeback Mountain (2005), We Are Marshall (2006), Shooter (2007), Transsiberian (2008), Stone of Destiny (2008), The Open Road (2009), Ironclad (2011), Transcendence (2014), The Martian (2015), Fantastic Four (2015), Morgan (2016), Megan Leavey (2017), My Days of Mercy (2017), Chappaquiddick (2018), and Friendship (2024).[3][4]

Kate Mara studied at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Fox Lane High School. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is acting. Residence is recorded at Los Angeles and Manhattan. Distinctions recorded are Max Mara Face of the Future Award.

• Name — Kate Mara • Birth Name — Kate Rooney Mara • Born — 27 February 1983 • Birthplace — Bedford, New York, U.S. • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 1997–present • Children — 2 • Relatives — Rooney Mara (sister) • Family — * Rooney family • Mara family

Kate Mara was born on February 27, 1983, in Bedford, New York. Her parents are Timothy Christopher Mara, an NFL scout and vice president of the New York Giants for player evaluation, and Kathleen McNulty Mara (née Rooney).[5] She is the second of four siblings, with an older brother, Daniel; a younger sister, the actress Patricia "Rooney"; and a younger brother, Conor.[6] Her ancestry is mostly Irish, a quarter Italian, and smaller amounts of German and French-Canadian.[7] Her father is one of 11 children. Through him she has 20 aunts and uncles and 40 cousins.[8] She is a great-granddaughter of both New York Giants founder Tim Mara and Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney.[9] Her mother's side of the family has held ownership in the Steelers since its formation in 1933, and her father's side of the family has held ownership in the Giants since its formation in 1925. Her paternal grandparents were Wellington Mara and Ann Mara. Wellington co-owned the Giants from 1959 until his death in 2005, and was succeeded by his son (Kate Mara's uncle) John Mara, who is now president, CEO, and co-owner of the team. Kate Mara's maternal grandfather, Timothy James "Tim" Rooney, has operated Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York, since 1972.[10] Her granduncle Dan Rooney, chairman of the Steelers, was the United States Ambassador to Ireland and co-founded the charitable organization The Ireland Funds. Her first cousin once removed Art Rooney II is president and co-owner of the Steelers. Mara began acting at the age of nine in a school musical. She attended several youth theater-arts schools and appeared in community theater and in school plays.[12] In an Esquire magazine interview, she says she was "painfully shy" growing up and had only one friend.[14]

• Illustration — Mara at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival

Mara's first recurring television role was in the FX drama Nip/Tuck in a love triangle with her boyfriend Matt McNamara (John Hensley) and another cheerleader (Sophia Bush). Mara also appeared on Cold Case, Boston Public, CSI: Miami and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Mara was cast as the lead in the 2004 The WB pilot Prodigy, about a teenage child prodigy.[15] She had a recurring role on the WB's Jack & Bobby in 2005 and a five-episode arc on the Fox TV series 24 in 2006, playing computer analyst Shari Rothenberg. Mara joined the cast of the HBO comedy-drama Entourage for the series' sixth season in 2009. She played Brittany, Eric "E" Murphy (Kevin Connolly)'s assistant at his talent-management company and a potential love interest.[16] Mara filmed four episodes for the series in 2009. In 2011, she guest starred on the FX horror series American Horror Story, as Hayden McClaine, a student who becomes Dr. Ben Harmon (Dylan McDermott)'s dead mistress, a spirit trapped in the Harmon house. Mara was offered the role by Ryan Murphy, her former producer on Nip/Tuck.[17] In 2012, Mara joined the cast of House of Cards, playing the part of Zoe Barnes, an intrepid reporter from Washington, D.C. who becomes a major ally to Frank Underwood by leaking stories that undermine his rivals.[18] She filmed a second season of the series, which was released on February 14, 2014. On July 10, 2014, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. She played a teacher who begins an illicit relationship with an underage student in the FX miniseries A Teacher (2020). For it, she received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best New Scripted Series as an executive producer.[19] Mara's stage debut, in 2003, was at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in John Guare's Landscape of the Body with Lili Taylor.[20] Mara starred in The Alice Complex, a play by Peter Barr Nickowitz, at Dixon Place in New York City in 2005, and at the Blank Theatre in Los Angeles in 2006. The production co-starred Tony Award-winner Harriet Sansom Harris.[21] In 2006, she told WFAN radio that theater is a "dream" because it was "all I really wanted to do as a kid. I didn't care about movies or TV, I just wanted to do Broadway".[22]

Mara was in a relationship with Max Minghella between 2010 and 2014.[54] In 2014, she had a brief relationship with Elliot Page[55] before beginning a relationship with her Fantastic Four co-star Jamie Bell in 2015.[57] In January 2017, the couple was engaged.[58] On July 17, 2017, the couple announced that they had married.[59] As a result, Mara became the stepmother to Bell's son from his marriage to Evan Rachel Wood. In May 2019, the couple's daughter was born.[60] On November 17, 2022, Mara announced on Instagram that she had given birth to a son the week before. Mara lives in Los Angeles[61] and Manhattan.[62] Mara credits her vegan diet and regular workouts for keeping fit.[64] "I'm a massive animal lover, too," she has said. "Being vegan has been so good for me. I never felt better."[65] Mara is one of the faces of the Humane Society of the United States.[66] In 2015, she was featured in one of its campaign videos to promote Meatless Monday.[67] As a descendant of the owners of the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers, Mara is a fan of both teams;[68][69] she joked, "If I'm mad at my mom, I root for the Giants, and if I'm pissed at my dad, I root for the Steelers."[70] This relationship contributed to her role in We Are Marshall. Mara has sung the national anthem at both teams' games,[71] and since she missed the Steelers' 2006 victory at Super Bowl XL due to work, her contracts have stipulated that she may attend if either team goes to the Super Bowl.[72] She was in attendance for the Giants' victory in Super Bowl XLII, the Steelers' victory the next year in Super Bowl XLIII, and the Giants' victory in Super Bowl XLVI.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1997 — Law & Order — Jenna Erlich — Episode: "Shadow" • 2000 — Madigan Men — Julie — Episode: "White Knight" • Ed — Kelly Kovacs — Episode: "Pretty Girls and Waffles" • 2001 — Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Lori — Episode: "Pixies" • 2003 — Everwood — Kate Morris — 2 episodes • Nip/Tuck — Vanessa Bartholomew — 4 episodes • Cold Case — Jill Shelby — Episode: "Look Again" • Boston Public — Helena Gelbke — Episode: "Chapter Seventy-Five" • 2004 — CSI: Miami — Stephanie Brooks — Episode: "Murder in a Flash" • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Janelle Macklin — Episode: "Formalities" • 2005 — Jack & Bobby — Katie — 6 episodes • 2006 — 24 — Shari Rothenberg — 5 episodes (season 5) • 2009 — Entourage — Brittany — 4 episodes • T Takes — Kate — 2 episodes • 2011 — American Horror Story: Murder House — Hayden McClaine — 8 episodes • 2012 — Tron: Uprising — Perl — Voice; 2 episodes • 2013–2014; 2016 — House of Cards — Zoe Barnes — 14 episodes Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series (2014) • 2014 — Robot Chicken — Various voices — 2 episodes • 2015 — Moonbeam City — Chrysalis Tate — Voice; 10 episodes • 2018 — Pose — Patty Bowes — 6 episodes • 2020 — A Teacher — Claire Wilson — Miniseries; also producer • 2023 — Class of '09 — Amy Poet — Miniseries; Main role[82] • Black Mirror — Lana — Episode: "Beyond the Sea"[83] • 2025 — Invincible — Becky Duvall — Voice; Episode: "All I Can Say Is I'm Sorry"[84] • 2026 — Imperfect Women — Nancy — 8 episodes[85]

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2022 — The Big Lie — Honor Bergin — Voice role[86] • Koz — Becky Kozlowski — Voice role[87]

• Year — Title — Artist(s) — Role • 2013 — "Holding On for Life" — Broken Bells — Helen[88] • 2019 — "When Am I Gonna Lose You" — Local Natives — Rich lonely Los Angeles woman[89]

Kate Mara is recorded as actress and executive producer.

Mara made her film debut in Random Hearts in 1999, directed by Sydney Pollack. She played Jessica Chandler, the daughter of a congresswoman (Kristin Scott Thomas). She next appeared in the Sundance Film Festival award-winning films Joe the King (1999) and Tadpole (2002), alongside Sigourney Weaver. Mara co-starred in Peoples (2004), a drama and coming-of-age story filmed in Louisville, Kentucky. She starred in the direct-to-video horror film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary and appeared with Noah Wyle and Illeana Douglas in the 2005 film The Californians. Her supporting role as the daughter of Heath Ledger's character in the Oscar-winning film Brokeback Mountain that year brought her more widespread critical notice. Mara signed with the William Morris Agency,[23] and was included on the New York Daily Newss list of "10 young actors who have a shot at making it big" at the start of 2006.[24] She appeared in Zoom that year as Summer Jones (aka Wonder), a 16-year-old girl with telekinetic and empathic powers. She next appeared in We Are Marshall, starring Matthew McConaughey, which recalled the aftermath of the 1970 Marshall University plane crash that took the lives of most of the football team. Mara played cheerleader Annie Cantrell. In 2007, she appeared in the comedy Full of It with Ryan Pinkston for New Line Cinema. The film later aired on television as Big Liar on Campus. Mara was also featured in an advertising campaign for clothing retailer Gap called, "khakis with attitude."[25] She appeared in Shooter, a thriller about a master sniper portrayed by Mark Wahlberg, lured out of retirement to prevent an assassination.[26] Mara played a Kentucky widow, Sarah Fenn, adopting a southern accent for the role. Also in 2007, she finished her work in the film Transsiberian, by Brad Anderson, which takes place on the Trans-Siberian Railway that runs from China to Moscow. She spent three months shooting the thriller in Vilnius, Lithuania,[27] starting in December 2006. The film also shot on location in Beijing and Russia.[28] Mara played Abby, a 20-year-old runaway from Seattle.[29] Mara starred in the 2008 film Stone of Destiny, written and directed by Charles Martin Smith, about the theft of the Stone of Scone on Christmas Day, 1950. Mara played Kay Matheson, one of four students that removed the stone in a Scottish nationalist plot. The period adventure-comedy co-starred Billy Boyd, Robert Carlyle and Charlie Cox.[30] Filming began in June 2007 in locations around Glasgow.[31] Mara felt lucky and proud to play a role that was important to people's heritage.[32] She stayed near the Botanic Gardens in the city's West End while filming.[33] The film was shown at the Edinburgh and Toronto International Film Festivals.[34][35] • Illustration — Mara at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival In December 2008, Mara appeared in T Takes: Brooklyn 09, a series of six improvised short films directed by Brody Baker.[36] She starred in The Open Road as Lucy.[37] In 2009, Mara filmed the independent comedy Peep World, starring Michael C. Hall, Sarah Silverman and Rainn Wilson,[38] and joined the cast of Marvel's Iron Man 2, making a cameo appearance as a U.S. Marshal who serves Tony Stark a subpoena.[39] Mara shot the ensemble romantic comedy Happythankyoumoreplease in New York City in July 2009. She plays a waitress and aspiring singer named Mississippi, in a story about six single New Yorkers in their 20s. The film was written and directed by actor Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother).[40] The film won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In 2010, Mara played hiker Kristi Moore in the survival drama 127 Hours, a true story directed by Danny Boyle about Aron Ralston, a climber trapped while mountaineering in Utah.[41] Mara appeared in Ironclad (2011), which tells the story of the siege of Rochester Castle by King John in 1215.[42] It is her first film where she speaks in an English accent.[43] Mara appeared in the short film Ten Year, produced by Channing Tatum, to attract financing for a feature film.[44] The full-length feature went into production in Albuquerque in January 2010, with Mara starring in a large ensemble cast film about a 10-year high school reunion.[45] In 2012, Mara starred in Stefan Ruzowitzky's thriller Deadfall with Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde.[46][47] In 2013, Mara starred in the video for Broken Bells's song "Holding On for Life". In 2014, she appeared in Transcendence, starring Johnny Depp and directed by Wally Pfister.[48] • Illustration — Mara at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con promoting Fantastic Four In 2015, she played Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman, in the Fantastic Four reboot.[49] In that year, she also had a supporting role as astronaut Beth Johanssen in director Ridley Scott's film The Martian. She also starred as Ashley Smith in the movie Captive. In 2017, Mara starred in Megan Leavey, playing Megan Leavey, a real-life U.S. marine who bonded with her military working dog. The film was directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite,[50] and released on June 9, 2017.[51] Mara starred alongside Elliot Page in My Days of Mercy, which she co-produced.[52] Mara also stars in the upcoming movie Bucking Fastard, directed by Werner Herzog.[53]

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1999 — Joe the King — Allyson • Random Hearts — Jessica Chandler • 2002 — Tadpole — Miranda Spear • 2004 — Time Well Spent — Girl — Short film • Peoples — Jessica • Prodigy • 2005 — Urban Legends: Bloody Mary — Samantha "Sam" Owens — Direct-to-video • Brokeback Mountain — Alma Del Mar Jr. (age 19) • The Californians — Zoe Tripp • 2006 — Zoom — Summer Jones / Wonder • Fireflies — Taylor • We Are Marshall — Annie Cantrell • 2007 — Full of It — Annie Dray • Shooter — Sarah Fenn • 2008 — Transsiberian — Abby • Stone of Destiny — Kay Matheson • 2009 — Big Guy — Kate — Short film • The — Lucy • 2010 — Happythankyoumoreplease — Mississippi • Iron Man 2 — U.S. Marshal • 127 Hours — Kristi Moore • Peep World — Meg • 2011 — Ironclad — Isabel • Queen of Hearts — Queen of Hearts — Short film • 10 Years — Elise • 2012 — Deadfall — Hanna • 2013 — After the Disco Part One: Angel and the Fool — Helen — Short film • After the Disco Part Two: Holding On for Life — Short film • 2014 — Transcendence — Bree • Tiny Detectives — Detective Kate — Short film • Lennon or McCartney — Herself — Short film • 2015 — The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards — Lisa • Fantastic Four — Susan Storm / Invisible Woman • Man Down — Natalie Drummer • The Martian — Beth Johanssen • Captive — Ashley Smith • 2016 — Morgan — Lee Weathers • 2017 — Megan Leavey — Megan Leavey • My Days of Mercy — Mercy Bromage — Also producer • 2018 — Chappaquiddick — Mary Jo Kopechne • 2022 — Call Jane — Lana • 2024 — Friendship — Tami Waterman[74][75] • 2025 — The Dutchman — Lula — Also executive producer[76][77] • The Astronaut — Sam Walker[79] • Easy's Waltz — Lucy • 2026 — Bucking Fastard — Jean Holbrooke[80] • Trust the Man — Post-production[73]