As a young girl growing up in New York City, Cara Buono took her family's blue-collar work ethic and began to turn it into an acting career that would later lead not only to starring roles but to screenwriting and directing. With no help from friends, family or mentors, she went out on her own, picked up a trade paper, saw an ad for a casting call...
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, Columbia University
Nationality
American
Spouse
Peter Thum
Awards
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer In A Children/Youth/Family Special
Movies
Paper Towns, Let Me In, Hulk, Artie Lange's Beer League, A Good Marriage, Kicking and Screaming, The Cowboy Way, Happy Accidents, Two Ninas, Chutney Popcorn, The Discoverers, Next Stop Wonderland, Waterland, River Red, Killer: A Journal of Murder, Man of the Century, From Other Worlds, Gladiator, At...
TV Shows
Third Watch
Star Sign
Pisces
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Fact
1
She is of Italian descent.
2
Ran three New York City Marathons: 1998, 1999, and 2005. She was set to run the 2006 NYC Marathon but had to drop about a week before due to an injury.
3
She graduated from Columbia University in 3 years, class of 1993, with a double major in English and political science.
$18 Million
