Cara Buono

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1971-03-01 (54 years old)

Place of Birth

The Bronx, New York, USA

Cara Buono

Biography

Born in The Bronx, New York, Buono was raised in a blue-collar family and decided at an early age to make acting her life's ambition. At 11, she showed her connection to her family's work ethic by answering a casting call ad for Harvey Fierstein's "Spookhouse" and landing the role, without any assistance from her family or other adults. Buono began landing roles on television and the New York stage while in her teens and early twenties, and earned a Daytime Emmy nomination as a young victim of sexual abuse in Abby, My Love (1991) (CBS, 1991), which aired as part of the CBS Schoolbreak Special (1984). She soon graduated to minor roles in Steph...

Acting

2003

Hulk

as Edith Banner

2006

Beer League

as Linda

2000

1999

In a Class of His Own

as Sherry Donato

1992

Gladiator

as Dawn

2008

Cthulhu

as Dannie

2000

Two Ninas

as Nina Cohen

2014

1996

1999

Man of the Century

as Virginia Clemens

2008

The Unquiet

as Julie Bishop

2025

2023

She Came from the Woods

as Heather McCalister

2004

2010

Betrayed

as Amy Waite

2014

A Good Marriage

as Betty Pike

2015

Emily & Tim

as Emily (Segment 3)

1999

Deep in My Heart

as Young Gerry Cummins

2015

Paper Towns

as Mrs. Jacobsen

2025

Things Like This

as Margie Kitlin

1998

River Red

as Rachel

2024

1994

The Cowboy Way

as Teresa Salazar

2000

Attention Shoppers

as Claire Suavez

2010

Let Me In

as Owen's Mother

2017

All Saints

as Aimee Spurlock

2018

The Bad Seed

as Angela

2018

1992

Waterland

as Judy Dobson

2000

Takedown

as Christina Painter

2001

2014

2024

In Fidelity

as Holly Ayker

2025

V13

as Ida

2012

Modern Love

as Nicky

Production

1997

Baggage

as Director

1997

Baggage

as Writer

1997

Baggage

as Producer

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