Date of Birth : Feb 27th 1983
Kate Mara is an American television and film actress. Beginning acting in her hometown of Bedford, New York, she moved from the stage to her first film, Random Hearts (1999). Notable roles include appearances in Academy Award-winning Brokeback Mountain and on Fox television series 24. Included on the New York Daily News list of “10 young actors who have a shot at making it big” at the start of 2006, she has since appeared in the feature films We Are Marshall (2006), Shooter (2007), and Transsiberian (2008). She also starred with Justin Timberlake in The Open Road (2009).
Mara was born and raised in Bedford, New York, the daughter of Chris Mara, a scout for the New York Giants, and Kathleen (née Rooney). She is Irish-Italian-American, her family name used to be O’Mara. She has one older brother, Daniel, and two younger siblings, Patricia and Conor. Mara wanted to be an actress since seeing Les Misérables at a young age; she said she “fell in love with Broadway and musicals”, and grew up watching movie musicals on television and going to Broadway shows with her mother. She was especially a fan of Judy Garland’s films. She began acting at the age of nine, appearing in a school musical. Mara attended several youth theater-arts schools and appeared in community theater and in school plays. Mara described herself to Esquire magazine as “painfully shy” while growing up, and said she only had one friend.