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Kate Mara

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 06: [EDITOR'S NOTE: image has been digitally processed and converted to black and white] Kate Mara attends the Costume Institute Gala for the 'PUNK: Chaos to Couture' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2013 in New York City.

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About Kate Mara

Kate Mara (born February 27, 1983) is an American television and film actress. Beginning acting in her hometown of Bedford, New York, she moved from the stage to her first film, Random Hearts (1999). Her notable subsequent roles include appearances in the Academy Award-winning film Brokeback Mountain (2005), playing the daughter of Heath Ledger's character and on the Fox television series 24, as computer analyst Shari Rothenberg. She has since appeared in the feature films We Are Marshall (2006), Shooter (2007), Transsiberian (2008), Stone of Destiny (2008) and The Open Road (2009). In 2010, Mara joined the cast of the HBO series Entourage for its sixth season and appeared in Iron Man 2, Happythankyoumoreplease and 127 Hours. In 2011, she starred in the film Ironclad and played Hayden McClaine on the FX series American Horror Story. Mara will next star in the crime film Blackbird and the Netflix original series, House of Cards.

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