Kate Mara

Kate Mara was born and raised in Bedford, New York and began acting at age fourteen in local theater projects. At fifteen Kate made her feature film debut in Random Hearts for director Sydney Pollack.

Kate's impressive list of film credits include Brokeback Mountain for director Ang Lee in which she portrayed Heath Ledger's daughter; Transsiberian with Sir Ben Kingsley and Woody Harrelson for director Brad Anderson; We Are Marshall with Matthew McConaughey and Matthew Fox for director McG; Shooter with Mark Wahlberg for director Antoine Fuqua; Stone of Destiny with Charlie Cox for director Charles Martin Smith; The Open Road with Justin Timberlake and Jeff Bridges for director Michael Meredith; Iron Man 2 with Robert Downey Jr. for director Jon Favreau; Iron Clad with Paul Giamatti and James Purefoy for director Jonathan English; and HappyThankYouMorePlease with Josh Radnor and Malin Akerman.

Kate also appeared in the Academy Award nominated film 127 Hours with James Franco and Amber Tamblyn for director Danny Boyle, Ten Years with Channing Tatum, Oscar Isaac, Brian Geraghty and Max Minghella for director Jamie Linden, and in the independent film Deadfall opposite Eric Bana, Charlie Hunnam and Olivia Wilde, for Oscar-winning director Stefan Ruzowitzky.

In 2014 Kate starred alongside Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall and Morgan Freeman in the film Transcendence, which marked the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister.

More recent film credits include the psychological thriller Man Down in which she played Natalie Drummer, wife of war veteran Gabriel Drummer played by Shia LaBeouf; Fantastic Four alongside Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell; and Captive in which she starred with David Oyelowo as a single mother struggling with meth addiction in the adaptation of the best-selling book An Unlikely Angel.

On television Mara received an Emmy Award nomination for her role in David Fincher's critically acclaimed television series, House of Cards in which she co-starred alongside Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.

Kate also portrayed a mentally unstable ghost alongside Jessica Lange in Season One of Ryan Murphy's critically acclaimed series American Horror Story for F/X and has appeared on numerous television shows, including arcs on 24 and Entourage.

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