Cara Buono
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Birthplace:
The Bronx, New York, USA
An intense, unaffected, sloe-eyed Italian American player of television, stage, and film, Cara Buono never lacked determination. The product of a working-class Bronx household, she was determined to become an actor during adolescence, then broke into show business at age 12 (ca. 1983) and used a succession of roles, including Broadway and small screen assignments, to generate a steady income, support herself, and ultimately put herself through Columbia University in an astonishing three years. Buono made an admirable (albeit low-profile) debut in director Stephen Gyllenhaal's ambitious and vastly underrated psychological drama Waterland (as a student in the early '70s). Subsequent films varied enormously in quality, as did the scope of her roles; from a turn as an illegal immigrant daughter in the critically excoriated buddy comedy The Cowboy Way (1994), to a bit part in the critically worshipped Noah Baumbach seriocomedy Kicking and Screaming (1995). Subsequent highlights of Buono's career included a key supporting role in director Brad Anderson's wry romantic comedy Next Stop Wonderland (1998) and a portrayal of Bruce Banner's mother, Edith, in director Ang Lee's unevenly received superhero opus Hulk (2003). In the years to follow, Buono shifted her focus to television with a season-long role as Grace Foster on Third Watch and a portrayal of Anna Turner in Season Six of The Dead Zone. She also co-starred opposite Jason Cottle in the occult horror thriller Cthulhu, adapted from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. In 2010 Buono had a major part in Let Me In, the American remake of the vampire film Let the Right One In, and she played psychiatrist Faye Miller, one of Don Draper's many girlfriends during the fourth season of the award-winning AMC series Mad Men. Two years later she was in the drama Drew Peterson: Untouchable.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Bad Seed |
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— | 2018 |
95% | All Saints |
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$5.8M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Emily & Tim |
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— | 2016 |
58% | Paper Towns |
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— | 2015 |
32% | Stephen King's A Good Marriage |
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— | 2014 |
88% | The Discoverers |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Drew Peterson: Untouchable |
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— | 2012 |
88% | Let Me In |
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$12.2M | 2010 |
62% | Cthulhu |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Unquiet |
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— | 2008 |
27% | Beer League |
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$0.5M | 2006 |
38% | From Other Worlds |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | The Discoverers |
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— | 2004 |
62% | Hulk |
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$132.2M | 2003 |
70% | Happy Accidents |
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— | 2001 |
67% | Two Ninas |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Attention Shoppers |
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— | 2000 |
71% | Man of the Century |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | In a Class of His Own |
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— | 1999 |
83% | Chutney Popcorn |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Deep in My Heart |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | River Red |
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— | 1998 |
75% | Next Stop Wonderland |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Killer: A Journal of Murder |
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— | 1996 |
57% | Kicking and Screaming |
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— | 1995 |
21% | The Cowboy Way |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | In The Line Of Duty: Ambush In Waco |
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— | 1993 |
53% | Waterland |
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— | 1992 |
31% | Gladiator |
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— | 1992 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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93% |
Stranger Things
2016-2019
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92% |
Person Of Interest
2011-2016
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24% |
The Mysteries of Laura
2014-2016
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No Score Yet |
Vigilados: Person of Interest
2011-2016
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95% |
Elementary
2012-2019
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82% |
Castle
2009-2016
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93% |
The Good Wife
2009-2016
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66% |
A Gifted Man
2011-2012
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79% |
Brothers & Sisters
2006-2011
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No Score Yet |
Hawaii Five-0
2010-2020
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94% |
Mad Men
2007-2015
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No Score Yet |
NCIS
2003
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92% |
The Sopranos
1999-2007
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No Score Yet |
The Dead Zone
2002-2007
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No Score Yet |
Third Watch
1999-2005
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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No Score Yet |
Family Law
1999-2002
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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No Score Yet |
New York Undercover
1994-1998
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100% |
Tribeca
1993
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