Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
3/1/1971
Place of Birth
The Bronx, New York, USA
Also Known As
کارا بونو
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 ...
Known For
Stranger Things 5: The Finale
as Karen Wheeler
Takedown
as Christina Painter
Beer League
as Linda
Happy Accidents
as Bette
The Discoverers
as Nell
Queen of the Ring
as Bertha
Attention Shoppers
as Claire Suavez
In Fidelity
as Holly Ayker
Hulk
as Edith Banner
Paper Towns
as Mrs. Jacobsen
Waterland
as Judy Dobson
The Bad Seed
as Angela
Emily & Tim
as Emily (Segment 3)
All Saints
as Aimee Spurlock
The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story
as Debra
Let Me In
as Owen's Mother
Two Ninas
as Nina Cohen
Gladiator
as Dawn
The Cowboy Way
as Teresa Salazar
Drew Peterson: Untouchable
as Kathleen Savio