Kate Rooney Mara (/ˈmɛərə/ MAIR-ə; born February 27, 1983) is an American actress and fashion model. She is known for her roles as 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) and Ben Harmon\'s vengeful mistress Hayden McClaine in the FX horror miniseries American Horror Story: Murder House (2011).\n', '

She made her film debut in 1999 with Random Hearts. She has since 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), Fantastic Four (2015), Morgan (2016), Megan Leavey (2017) and Chappaquiddick (2018), portraying Mary Jo Kopechne.\n', '

Kate Rooney Mara was born and raised in Bedford, New York. Her parents are 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 (also an actress); and one younger brother, Conor. Mara\'s father has Irish, German, and French Canadian ancestry, and her mother is of British and Italian descent.\n', '

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