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Kate Rooney Mara (/ ˈ m ɛər ə / MAIR-ə; [1] born February 27, 1983 [2]) is an American actress.She is known for her work in television, playing 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), wronged mistress Hayden McClaine in the FX miniseries American Horror Story: Murder ...
After Zoe Barnes declines his offer and continues to undermine his authority, he fires her, which infuriates Margaret Tilden, the creator of the Herald who forces him to resign. He is then approached by Lucas Goodwin to help him investigate Underwood, whom Goodwin strongly believes to be the murderer of Zoe and Peter Russo.
Kate Mara as Zoe Barnes, a reporter for The Washington Herald (and later Slugline). She forms an intimate relationship with Frank Underwood, her political informant, who in turn uses her as a mouthpiece to leak stories to the press and irk his political rivals. (season 1; guest seasons 2 and 4)
Character Death: Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) Why It Was Devastating: The young political reporter Zoe Barnes’ relationship with congressman Frank Underwood was a bad idea from the start. After many ...
Kate Mara was cast as Zoe Barnes in early February 2012. [12] Mara's sister, Rooney Mara, worked with Fincher in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and when Kate Mara read the part of Zoe, she "fell in love with the character" and asked her sister to "put in a word for me with Fincher". The next month, she got a call for an audition.
Kate Mara played a particularly nasty (and ill-fated) variation on the archetype in House of Cards, which had her character Zoe Barnes exchanging sex for intel with Kevin Spacey’s sociopathic ...
Kate Mara as Zoe Barnes, an ambitious young journalist working for the Washington Herald and eventual lover of Frank Underwood. Corey Stoll as Peter Russo, a U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania and eventual candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. Michael Kelly as Douglas "Doug" Stamper, Frank Underwood's loyal Chief of Staff.
International Business Times critic Ellen Killoran notes that this may relate back to Underwood's quotation of Oscar Wilde to Zoe Barnes in Season 1: "A great man once said, 'everything is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.'" Avoiding sex may retain the balance of power in their relationship. [41]