Kate Mara

Kate Rooney Mara ( MAIR-ə; born February 27, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for appearing in the Netflix political drama House of Cards as Zoe Barnes and appeared in the Fox TV series 24 as computer analyst Shari Rothenberg. She made her film debut in 1999 with Random Hearts. She appeared in Brokeback Mountain (2005), We Are Marshall (2006), Shooter (2007), Transsiberian (2008), Stone of Destiny (2008), The Open Road (2009), Transcendence (2014), The Martian (2015), Morgan (2016), and Megan Leavey (2017). She also appeared in the FX horror miniseries American Horror Story: Murder House (2011) as Hayden McClaine and the superhero film Fantastic Four (2015) as Susan "Sue" Storm / The Invisible Woman. 2Early life Kate Rooney Mara was born and raised in Bedford, New York. She is the daughter of Timothy Christopher Mara, an NFL scout and vice president of the New York Giants for player evaluation, and Kathleen McNulty Mara (née Rooney). She is the second of four siblings, with one older brother, Daniel; one younger sister, Patricia (known professionally as Rooney Mara, also an actress); and one younger brother, Conor. Mara's father has Irish, German, and French Canadian ancestry, and her mother is of Irish and Italian descent. She is a great-granddaughter of both New York Giants founder Tim Mara and Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney, S