Biography
Kate Rooney Mara (/ˈmɛərə/ MAIR-ə; born February 27, 1983) is an American actress. She is known for her work in television, playing reporter Zoe Barnes in the Netflix political drama House of Cards (2013–2014; 2016), computer analyst Shari Rothenberg in the Fox thriller series 24 (2006), wronged mistress Hayden McClaine in the FX miniseries American Horror Story: Murder House (2011), Patty Bowes in the first season of the FX drag ball culture drama series Pose (2018), and a teacher who begins an...
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Complete Filmography

The Astronaut
2025
as Sam Walker
After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA’s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical...

Friendship
2025
as Tami
Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor Austin, as Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their...

The Dutchman
2025
as Lula
A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a myst...

The Smell of Money
2023
Executive Producer
A century after her grandfather claimed his freedom from slavery, Elsie Herring and her community fight for the right to clean air, water, and the lif...

Call Jane
2022
as Lana
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to...

Time of Day
2018
as Self
Shot over the course of six weeks on 16mm film by Greek cinematographer, Thimios Bakatakis (The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer), the new rag...

Chappaquiddick
2018
as Mary Jo Kopechne
Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign stra...

My Days of Mercy
2018
as Mercy
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.

My Days of Mercy
2018
Producer
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
Why Can't We Get Along
2018
as Self
The various creators and talents have created a brilliantly choreographed work, in which the camera dances and becomes a central character, following ...

Megan Leavey
2017
as Megan Leavey
The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete...

Morgan
2016
as Lee Weathers
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment...

The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
2016
as Self
A long form documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's film, "The Martian," featuring interviews with its cast and crew.

The Martian
2015
as Beth Johanssen
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and ...

Captive
2015
as Ashley Smith
Based on a miraculous true story that drew the attention of the entire nation, is the dramatic, thrilling, and spiritual journey of Ashley Smith and B...

Man Down
2015
as Natalie Drummer
When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas...

Fantastic Four
2015
as Sue Storm
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team mu...

Almost Not Beautiful
2015
as Lisa
Two estranged sisters are reunited back at their childhood home after going their own separate ways, only to discover that some bonds can never be rep...

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
as Lisa
Seven vignettes explore the difference between fantasy and reality, memory and history, and the joy and agony of the human condition.

Tiny Detectives
2014
as Detective Kate
Two police detectives constantly run into obstacles due to being very small.

Transcendence
2014
as Bree
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them...

Broken Bells: Holding on For Life
2013
as Girl
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Deadfall
2012
as Hanna
A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during anothe...

Out of the Shadows: Meet the House Ghosts
2012
Meet The "Ghosts" of American Horror Story's terrifying first season.

10 Years
2012
as Elise
A group of friends reunite ten years after their high-school graduation.

Queen of Hearts
2011
as Queen of Hearts
During a poker hand, a man imagines himself as a dashing knight rescuing an imperiled queen.

Happythankyoumoreplease
2011
as Mississippi
Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling t...

Ironclad
2011
as Lady Isabel
In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that u...

127 Hours
2010
as Kristi Moore
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an i...

Peep World
2010
as Meg
On the day of their Father's 70th birthday party, four siblings come to terms with the publication of a novel written by the youngest sibling, that ex...

Iron Man 2
2010
as U.S. Marshal
With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the p...

The Open Road
2009
as Lucy
Minor leaguer Carlton Garret takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garret when Carlton’s mo...
Big Guy
2009
as Kate
Rodney hates salads, the gym and daylight, until that is, Kate comes along and changes everything.

Stone of Destiny
2008
as Kay Matheson
Tells of the daring heist of The Stone of Destiny in the 1950s by a charming group of idealistic Scottish undergraduates, whose action rekindled Scott...

TransSiberian
2008
as Abby
A TransSiberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious p...

Shooter
2007
as Sarah Fenn
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back in...

Full of It
2007
as Annie Dray
A teenager tells outrageous lies at his new high school, only to have them suddenly come true.

We Are Marshall
2006
as Annie Cantrell
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving p...

Zoom
2006
as Summer Jones / Wonder
Jack Shepard is an out-of-shape auto shop owner, far removed from the man who once protected the world's freedom. Reluctantly called back into action ...

Brokeback Mountain
2005
as Alma Del Mar Jr. (age 19)
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they ge...

The Californians
2005
as Zoe Tripp
When real estate mogul Gavin Ransom announces his plan to cover California's northern coast with scores of mini-mansions, his environmentalist sister,...

Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
2005
as Samantha Owens
On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.

Tadpole
2002
as Miranda Spear
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, an...

Random Hearts
1999
as Jessica Chandler
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possession...

Joe the King
1999
as Allyson
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing se...
The Little Bedroom
N/A
Follows Edmond, a man recovering in a facility after taking a bad fall. He finds out that his son has sold his apartment, so he leaves with a nurse to...

Bucking Fastard
N/A
The story of two inseparable twin sisters, “Joan” and “Jean”, who live on the fringes of society. The film is inspired by the British identical twins ...
Easy's Waltz
N/A
A down-on-his-luck comedian-crooner navigates modern Las Vegas with old-school Vegas personalities.
She Kills Them
N/A
as Chloe Jacobs
Chloe Jacobs is a woman in her late 30s living a dangerous double life. By night, she seduces and slays vampires as part of a secret government operat...