Kate Rooney Mara ( MAIR-ə; born February 27, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for appearing in the Netflix political drama House of Cards as Zoe Barnes and appeared in the Fox TV series 24 as computer analyst Shari Rothenberg. She made her film debut in 1999 with Random Hearts. She 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), Morgan (2016), and Megan Leavey (2017). She also appeared in the FX horror miniseries American Horror Story: Murder House (2011) as Hayden McClaine, the superhero film Fantastic Four (2015) as Susan "Sue" Storm / The Invisible Woman, and the historical drama Chappaquiddick (2017), as Mary Jo Kopechne.
