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Cara Buono
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Cara Buono
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1971-03-01,The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
Born in The Bronx, New York, Buono was raised in a blue-collar family and decided at an early age to make acting her life's ambition. At 11, she showed her connection to her family's work ethic by answering a casting call ad for Harvey Fierstein's "Spookhouse" and landing the role, without any assistance from her family or other adults. Buono began landing roles on television and the New York stage while in her teens and early twenties, and earned a Daytime Emmy nomination as a young victim of sexual abuse in Abby, My Love (1991) (CBS, 1991), which aired as part of the CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984). She soon graduated to minor roles in Stephen Gyllenhaal's Waterland (1992), with Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke; as an illegal immigrant in The Cowboy Way (1994), with Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland; and in Noah Baumbach's much-loved indie comedy, Kicking and Screaming (1995), which reunited her with her "Abby, My Love" co-star, Josh Hamilton. While cultivating her acting career, Buono also graduated from Columbia University with a double major in English and political science in 1995, which she earned in just three years. After graduation, Buono concentrated largely on character roles in independent films and on television. She was the wife and confidante of prison guard Robert Sean Leonard, who served as an earpiece for monstrous 1930s criminal Carl Panzram (James Woods) in Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995), before playing an accident-prone opera singer in love with a young man (Gibson Frazier) with Jazz-Era affectations in the offbeat Man of the Century (1999). She soon added behind-the-camera credits to her expanding resume, including writer/director on the short, Baggage (1997), with Liev Schreiber and Minnie Driver, and served as co-producer and star of the comedy, Two Ninas (1999), about a pair of similarly monikered women (Buono and Amanda Peet) who fell for a very unlucky man. She continues to write and co-wrote "When the Cat's Away" (1999), with Brad Anderson, and wrote an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, "This Side of Paradise". Buono's screen credits grew more obscure at the launch of the new millennium - art house and film festival circles saw the lesbian drama, Chutney Popcorn (1999), Attention Shoppers (2000), Happy Accidents (2000) with Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio. She soon turned to television for wider exposure, and earned it through supporting roles on high profile series like Third Watch (1999) and The Sopranos (1999). In 2007, she joined the cast of the cult favorite, The Dead Zone (2002) (USA, 2002-2007) as Sheriff Anna Turner, who investigated the death of her predecessor (Chris Bruno). During this period, Buono maintained her screen career in features as varied as Ang Lee's Hulk (2003), playing David Banner's mother, who was killed by his genetically-induced rage, and Beer League (2006), and Artie Lange's hapless lay-about love interest. In 2010, she appeared as the divorced mother of Kodi Smit-McPhee in Let Me In (2010), the critically-praised American remake of the Swedish vampire movie, Let the Right One In (2008). That same year, she landed her most widely seen role-to-date on Mad Men (2007), playing Dr. Faye Miller. For her efforts, Buono received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011.

Filmography

The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story

7.111

The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story
2023-02-11

5.58

Hulk
2003-06-19

5.171

Beer League
2006-09-15

Happy Accidents

6.8

Happy Accidents
2000-01-25

In a Class of His Own

7.4

In a Class of His Own
1999-10-17

Kicking and Screaming

6.2

Kicking and Screaming
1995-10-06

7.636

Gladiator
1992-03-06

4.99

Cthulhu
2008-08-22

5

Two Ninas
2000-12-01

Drew Peterson: Untouchable

5.3

Drew Peterson: Untouchable
2014-01-29

Killer: A Journal of Murder

5.794

Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996-09-06

Man of the Century

6

Man of the Century
1999-10-29

In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco

5.333

In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco
1993-05-23

3

The Unquiet
2008-01-27

Queen of the Ring

6.724

Queen of the Ring
2025-03-07

She Came from the Woods

5.5

She Came from the Woods
2023-02-10

From Other Worlds

3.929

From Other Worlds
2004-10-29

0

Betrayed
2010-05-14

A Good Marriage

5.334

A Good Marriage
2014-10-03

5.6

Emily & Tim
2015-08-29

Deep in My Heart

6.75

Deep in My Heart
1999-02-14

6.153

Paper Towns
2015-06-18

Things Like This

6.2

Things Like This
2025-05-16

7.5

River Red
1998-11-06

Always, Already

0

Always, Already
2024-04-08

5.69

The Cowboy Way
1994-06-03

Attention Shoppers

4.333

Attention Shoppers
2000-09-21

6.793

Let Me In
2010-10-01

6.177

All Saints
2017-08-25

Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story

7.643

Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story
1993-11-09

Next Stop Wonderland

5.9

Next Stop Wonderland
1998-08-21

7.026

The Bad Seed
2018-09-09

Monsters and Men

5.829

Monsters and Men
2018-09-22

6.288

Waterland
1992-08-21

6.108

Takedown
2000-03-15

Half the Perfect World

0

Half the Perfect World
2016-08-26

Chutney Popcorn

5.391

Chutney Popcorn
2001-01-11

The Discoverers

5

The Discoverers
2014-05-16

5.2

In Fidelity
2024-11-04

2

V13
2025-04-03

0

Modern Love
2012-10-10

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5

7.3

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
2026-01-11

0

No One Cares
2026-12-03

7.918

Third Watch
1999-09-23

8.1

Mad Men
2007-07-19

5.833

The Single Guy
1995-09-21

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.947

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-09-20

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

7.637

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-10-06

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-09-30

8.083

Family Law
1999-09-20

7.972

Castle
2009-03-09

The Girl from Plainville

6.5

The Girl from Plainville
2022-03-29

7.628

Elementary
2012-09-27

Person of Interest

8.1

Person of Interest
2011-09-22

Brothers and Sisters

7.107

Brothers and Sisters
2006-09-24

7.596

The Good Wife
2009-09-22

7.311

Law & Order
1990-09-13

7.311

Law & Order
1990-09-13

8.7

The Sopranos
1999-01-10

8.7

The Sopranos
1999-01-10

The Blacklist: Redemption

6.614

The Blacklist: Redemption
2017-02-23

7.049

Bull
2016-09-20

7.622

NCIS
2003-09-23

Stranger Things

8.566

Stranger Things
2016-07-15

God Friended Me

7.715

God Friended Me
2018-09-30

7.281

Supergirl
2015-10-26

7.311

Law & Order
1990-09-13

6.377

The Romanoffs
2018-10-11

7.7

Hawaii Five-0
2010-09-20

The Mysteries of Laura

7.124

The Mysteries of Laura
2014-09-17

6.647

Miss Match
2003-09-26

7.311

Law & Order
1990-09-13

Talking Sopranos

10

Talking Sopranos
2020-04-07

Six Months to Live

0

Six Months to Live
2004-03-29

7.3

The Dead Zone
2002-06-16