Cara Buono
Acting
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…
Filmography
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One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
2026
Things Like This
2025
V13
2025
Queen of the Ring
2025
In Fidelity
2024
Always, Already
Always, Already
2024
The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story
2023
She Came from the Woods
2023
The Girl from Plainville
2022
Talking Sopranos
2020
The Romanoffs
2018
God Friended Me
2018
Monsters and Men
2018
The Bad Seed
2018
All Saints
2017
The Blacklist: Redemption
2017
Bull
2016
Half the Perfect World
Half the Perfect World
2016
Stranger Things
2016
Supergirl
2015
Emily & Tim
2015
Paper Towns
2015
A Good Marriage
2014
The Mysteries of Laura
2014
The Discoverers
2014
Drew Peterson: Untouchable
2014
Modern Love
Modern Love
2012
Elementary
2012
Person of Interest
2011
Let Me In
2010
Hawaii Five-0
2010
Betrayed
Betrayed
2010
The Good Wife
2009
Castle
2009
Cthulhu
2008
The Unquiet
2008
Mad Men
2007
Brothers and Sisters
2006
Beer League
2006
From Other Worlds
2004
Six Months to Live
Six Months to Live
2004
Miss Match
2003
NCIS
2003
Hulk
2003
The Dead Zone
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Chutney Popcorn
2001
Two Ninas
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Attention Shoppers
2000
Takedown
2000
Happy Accidents
2000
Man of the Century
1999
In a Class of His Own
1999
Third Watch
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
Family Law
1999
Deep in My Heart
1999
The Sopranos
1999
River Red
1998
Next Stop Wonderland
1998
Killer: A Journal of Murder
1996
Kicking and Screaming
1995
The Single Guy
1995
The Cowboy Way
1994
Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story
1993
In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco
1993
Waterland
1992
Gladiator
1992
Law & Order
1990
The Debut