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Kate Mara(I)

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Kate Mara is an American actress. She starred in the Netflix political drama House of Cards (2013) as Zoe Barnes and appeared in the Fox TV series 24 (2001) as computer analyst Shari Rothenberg. She appeared in Brokeback Mountain (2005), We Are Marshall (2006), Shooter (2007), Transsiberian (2008), Stone of Destiny (2008), The Open Road (2009), Transcendence (2014), and Fantastic Four (2015) as the Invisible Woman. She also appeared in the FX horror mini-series American Horror Story (2011) as Hayden McClaine. Mara's film debut was in Random Hearts (1999), with Harrison Ford in 1999, directed by Sydney Pollack. In 2015, she also had a supporting role as astronaut "Beth Johanssen" in director Ridley Scott's film The Martian (2015). In the same year, she also starred as Ashley Smith in the movie Captive (2015).

Mara also starred in Morgan (2016), Megan Leavey (2017) and My Days of Mercy (2017).

Kate was born in Bedford, New York. She is one of four children of Kathleen McNulty (Rooney) and NFL football team New York Giants executive Timothy Christopher Mara. Her younger sister is actress Rooney Mara.

Her grandfathers were Wellington Mara, co-owner of the Giants, and Timothy Rooney, owner of Yonkers Raceway, and her grand-uncle is Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney, the former US Ambassador to Ireland. She is the great-granddaughter of Art Rooney Sr., the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers football franchise. She often sings the national anthem at Giants home games. Her father has Irish, German, and French-Canadian ancestry, and her mother is of Irish and Italian descent.

Mara graduated from high school a year early. She was accepted at the prestigious NYU Tisch School of the Arts but deferred her admission for three consecutive years.
BornFebruary 27, 1983
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  • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy

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Kate Mara and Nick Robinson in A Teacher (2020)
Heath Ledger and Kate Mara in Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Aksel Hennie, Kate Mara, Jessica Chastain, and Sebastian Stan in The Martian (2015)
Kate Mara in The Martian (2015)
Kate Mara and Sebastian Stan in The Martian (2015)
Kate Mara and Sebastian Stan in The Martian (2015)
Kate Mara and Indya Moore in Pose (2018)
Kate Mara, Olivia Thirlby, Angela Hope Smith, and Gillian Mariner Gordon in Chappaquiddick (2017)
Kate Mara in Conan (2010)
Kate Mara in Conan (2010)
Jason Clarke and Kate Mara in Chappaquiddick (2017)
Jason Clarke and Kate Mara in Chappaquiddick (2017)

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Jamie Bell, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Miles Teller in Fantastic Four (2015)
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  • Sue Storm
  • 2015
Malin Akerman, Kate Mara, Pablo Schreiber, Josh Radnor, Zoe Kazan, and Michael Algieri in Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
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  • Mississippi
  • 2010
Mark Wahlberg in Shooter (2007)
Shooter
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  • Sarah Fenn
  • 2007
Matt Damon in The Martian (2015)
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  • Beth Johanssen
  • 2015

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Actress

  • Black Mirror (2011)
    Black Mirror
  • Koz (2022)
    Koz
    • (as Kate Mara Bell)
  • Class of '09
  • Jamie Costa in The Big Lie (2022)
    The Big Lie
  • Sigourney Weaver and Elizabeth Banks in Call Jane (2022)
    Call Jane
  • Adam Scott and Kate Mara in Ghostwriter (2021)
    Ghostwriter
    • (voice)
  • Kate Mara and Nick Robinson in A Teacher (2020)
    A Teacher
  • Jon Hamm, Kate Mara, Emma Roberts, Lake Bell, Reed Morano, Boyd Holbrook, Pom Klementieff, and LaKeith Stanfield in Time of Day (2018)
    Time of Day
  • Billy Porter in Pose (2018)
    Pose
  • Bruce Dern, Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, and Ed Helms in Chappaquiddick (2017)
    Chappaquiddick
  • Kate Mara and Elliot Page in My Days of Mercy (2017)
    My Days of Mercy
  • Tall Tales from the Magical Garden of Antoon Krings (2017)
    Tall Tales from the Magical Garden of Antoon Krings
    • (English version, voice)
  • Kate Mara in Megan Leavey (2017)
    Megan Leavey
  • Anya Taylor-Joy in Morgan (2016)
    Morgan
  • Kevin Spacey in House of Cards (2013)
    House of Cards

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  • The Smell of Money (2022)
    The Smell of Money
  • Adam Scott and Kate Mara in Ghostwriter (2021)
    Ghostwriter
  • Kate Mara and Nick Robinson in A Teacher (2020)
    A Teacher
  • Kate Mara and Elliot Page in My Days of Mercy (2017)
    My Days of Mercy

Soundtrack

  • Jimmy Fallon in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
  • 10 Years (2011)
    10 Years
  • Malin Akerman, Kate Mara, Pablo Schreiber, Josh Radnor, Zoe Kazan, and Michael Algieri in Happythankyoumoreplease (2010)
    Happythankyoumoreplease
  • Illeana Douglas, Noah Wyle, and Kate Mara in The Californians (2005)
    The Californians
  • Pictured - (top/back) Josh Randall, JanaMarie Hupp; (bottom, clockwise from center top) Tom Cavanagh, Michael Ian Black, Rachel Cronin, Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, Justin Long, Lesley Boone, Julie Bowen.
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    • February 27, 1983
    • Bedford, New York, USA
    • Jamie BellJuly 15, 2017 - present (2 children)
    • Art Rooney(Great Grandparent)
  • Other works
    March 2007: Appearing in print ad for Gap
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    • 2 Interviews
    • 3 Articles
    • 2 Pictorials
    • 1 Magazine Cover Photo

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    Great-grandfather Tim Mara founded the New York Giants. Great-grandfather Art Rooney founded the Pittsburgh Steelers.
  • Quotes
    Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

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