Cara Buono
{{Short description|American actress (born 1971)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Cara Buono
| image = Cara Buono cbb (cropped).jpg
| caption = Buono in 2017
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|3|1}}
| birth_place = New York City, U.S.
| alma_mater = Columbia University
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1989–present
| spouse = Peter Thum
| children = 1
}}
Cara Buono (born March 1, 1971){{cite news |author= |date=2011-03-01 |title=Today's Birthdays |agency=The Associated Press |work=The Arizona Republic |page=D6 |quote=Actress Cara Buono ('Mad Men') is 40.}} is an American actress. Emmy-nominated for her role as Dr. Faye Miller in Mad Men, she has played Karen Wheeler in the horror sci-fi series Stranger Things since its premiere in 2016. She also portrayed Kelli Moltisanti in the sixth season of The Sopranos.
Early life and education
Buono was born and raised in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, in a blue-collar family of Italian descent. She has two brothers and a sister.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.vulture.com/2010/09/mad_mens_carla_buono_faye_on_d.html |date=September 20, 2010 |title=Mad Men's Cara Buono on Her Character Faye's Affair With Don Draper |first=Gwynne |last=Watkins |access-date=April 8, 2012 |magazine=New York |archive-date=April 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411123325/http://www.vulture.com/2010/09/mad_mens_carla_buono_faye_on_d.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news|last=Freydkin |first=Donna |date=August 30, 2010 |title=Cara Buono shares cooking tips but no 'Mad Men' secrets |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2010-08-27-CaraBuono27_ST_N.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110204152850/http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2010-08-27-CaraBuono27_ST_N.htm |archive-date=February 4, 2011 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.vogue.it/en/people-are-talking-about/focus-on/2010/10/cara-buono|title=Cara Buono|work=Vogue Italy|access-date=July 30, 2015|archive-date=September 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927171628/http://www.vogue.it/en/people-are-talking-about/focus-on/2010/10/cara-buono|url-status=dead}}
She attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School{{cite web |url=http://laguardiahs.org/alumni/ |title=LaGuardia Arts Alumni |publisher=Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Arts and Performing Arts |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140408163845/http://laguardiahs.org/alumni/ |archive-date=2014-04-08 }} and graduated from Columbia University with a double major in English and political science, which she completed in three years.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/fashion/08nite.html |title=A NIGHT OUT WITH -- Cara Buono; Mrs. Wisguy |date=April 8, 2007 |newspaper=The New York Times}} She made her acting debut in Harvey Fierstein's play Spookhouse at the age of 12.
Career
Buono continued stage work both on Broadway and Off Broadway, and started her film career opposite Ethan Hawke and Jeremy Irons in Waterland (1992). Much of her work has been in indie films such as Chutney Popcorn (1999), Happy Accidents (2000), Next Stop Wonderland (1998) and Two Ninas (1999), which she co-produced. In 1999, she had a small role as a young Gerry Cummins in the TV movie, Deep in My Heart (1999).
She starred in the final season of the NBC drama Third Watch (1999) as paramedic Grace Foster, and Ang Lee's feature film of Marvel Comics' Hulk in 2003 as the mother of the title character's alter ego, Bruce Banner.
She also appeared as Kelli, the wife of Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli), in the two-part final season of the HBO drama series The Sopranos, which aired in 2006 and 2007. She appeared as Dr. Faye Miller in the fourth season of the AMC drama series Mad Men,Hochberg, Mina (September 27, 2010). [http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/2010/09/cara-buono-interview.php Q&A with Cara Buono] {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100929140426/http://blogs.amctv.com/mad-men/2010/09/cara-buono-interview.php |date=September 29, 2010 }}. AMCtv.com for which she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011.[http://www.emmys.com/nominations/2011/Outstanding%20Guest%20Actress%20In%20A%20Drama%20Series 2011 Outstanding Guest Actress Nominees in a Drama Series] Emmys.com
Personal life
Buono lives in New York City's Greenwich Village with her husband Peter Thum, founder of Ethos Water, and their daughter.{{cite tweet|user=CaraBuono|author=Cara Buono|number=787804806576476160|date=October 16, 2016|title=My husband @peterthum made this with our 3 year old daughter. #boo}}
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| rowspan=2| 1992
| Dawn | |
| Waterland
| Judy Dobson | |
| 1994
| {{sortname|The|Cowboy Way|The Cowboy Way (film)}} | Teresa Salazar | |
| rowspan=2| 1995
| Esther Lesser | |
| Kicking and Screaming
| Kate | |
| 1997
| Made Men | Toni-Ann Antonelli | |
| rowspan=2| 1998
| Julie | |
| River Red
| Rachel | |
| rowspan=3| 1999
| Virginia Clemens | |
| Two Ninas
| Nina Cohen | |
| Chutney Popcorn
| Janis | |
| rowspan=3| 2000
| Bette | |
| Takedown
| Christina Painter | |
| Attention Shoppers
| Claire Suarez | |
| 2003
| Hulk | |
| 2004
| Joanne Schwartzbaum | |
| 2006
| Linda Salvo | |
| 2007
| Cthulhu | Dannie Marsh | |
| rowspan=3| 2010
| Betrayed | Amy Waite | Short film |
| Stuff
| Madeline | Short film |
| Let Me In
| Owen's mother | |
| 2012
| Nell | |
| 2014
| Betty Pike | |
| rowspan=2| 2015
| Connie Jacobsen | |
| Emily & Tim
| Emily Hanratty | Segment: "Betrayal" |
| 2016
| Half the Perfect World | Sonia | |
| 2017
| Aimee Spurlock | |
| 2018
| Stacey | |
| 2022
| Heather McCalister | |
| rowspan=2| 2024
| Bertha | |
| In Fidelity
| Holly Ayker | |
| TBA
| Things Like This | Margie Kitlin | Post-production |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1989
| Joann | 2 episodes |
| 1991
| Abby Morris | Episode: "Abby, My Love" |
| 1992
| Diane | 3 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 1993
| Tribeca | Rose Polito | Episode: "The Hopeless Romantic" |
| Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story
| Tracey Lien | Television film |
| 1995
| {{sortname|The|Single Guy}} | Christie | Episode: "Tennis" |
| rowspan="2" | 1996
| Connie | Episode: "A Time to Kill" |
| Law & Order
| Shelly Taggert | Episode: "Girlfriends" |
| 1998
| Alice Simonelli | Episode: "Punk" |
| 1999
| Young Gerry Cummins | Television film |
| 2001
| Carly Hanson | Episode: "Intentions" |
| rowspan="2" | 2002
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Charlotte Fielding | Episode: "Phantom" |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
| Tracy Logan | Episode: "Chasing the Bus" |
| 2003
| Michelle Schiff | Episode: "The Love Bandit" |
| 2004
| Six Months to Live | Alice | Episode: "1.1" |
| 2004–05
| Grace Foster | 22 episodes |
| 2006–07
| {{sortname|The|Sopranos}} | 7 episodes |
| rowspan="3" | 2007
| Attorney Shannon | Episode: "Melting Pot" |
| Queens Supreme
| Bettina Martinelli | Episode: "That Voodoo That You Do" |
| {{sortname|The|Dead Zone|The Dead Zone (TV series)}}
| Sheriff Anna Turner | 6 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 2008
| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Rachel Zelinsky | Episode: "Unorthodox" |
| {{sortname|The|Unquiet|nolink=1}}
| Julie Bishop | Television film |
| rowspan="2" | 2009
| ER | Lisa Salamunovich | Episode: "And in the End..." |
| NCIS
| Navy Cdr. Sarah Resnik | Episode: "Power Down" |
| 2010
| Mad Men | 10 episodes |
| rowspan="3" | 2011
| Rose | 3 episodes |
| Hawaii Five-0
| Agent Allison Marsh | Episode: "Ho'opa'i" |
| {{sortname|A|Gifted Man}}
| Carol Gordan | Episode: "In Case of Discomfort" |
| 2012
| Drew Peterson: Untouchable | Kathleen Savio | Television film |
| rowspan="2" | 2013
| Castle | Siobhan O'Doul | Episode: "The Wild Rover" |
| {{sortname|The|Good Wife}}
| Charlene Peterson | Episode: "A More Perfect Union" |
| rowspan="2" | 2014
| {{sortname|The|Carrie Diaries|The Carrie Diaries (TV series)}} | Penny | Episode: "Hungry Like the Wolf" |
| Elementary
| Sarah Cushing | Episode: "Ears to You" |
| 2014–15
| Martine Rousseau | 8 episodes |
| 2015
| Julia Davis | Episode: "The Mystery of the Taken Boy" |
| 2016–present
| Karen Wheeler | Main role |
| rowspan="2" | 2017
| Anna Copeland | Episode: "Leland Bray" |
| Bull
| Amaya Andrews | Episode: "The Illusion of Control" |
| rowspan="2" | 2018
| Angela Grossman | Television film |
| The Romanoffs
| Debbie Newman | Episode: "Bright and High Circle" |
| 2019–21
| Gamemnae |
| 2019
| Karen | Episode: "Return to Sender" |
| 2022
| Gail Carter | 8 episodes |
| 2023
| The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story | Debra Robinson | Television film |
| 2024
| Lisa Dumont | Episode: "Time Will Tell" |
=Video games=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Voice role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 2002
| Mafia | Sarah Angelo | |
References
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Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:American film actresses
Category:American people of Italian descent
Category:American stage actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni