Cara Buono was born on 1st March 1974, in The Bronx, New York City USA, of part-Italian ancestry, and is an actress, producer, screenwriter and director, perhaps best known for appearances in the television series “New York 911” playing first aid worker Grace Foster, and in “The Sopranos” portraying Christopher Moltisanti’s wife. Recently she appeared in the series “Person of Interest” and “Stranger Things”. Bouno has been active in the entertainment industry since 1992.
How rich is the actress? It has been reported by authoritative sources that the overall size of Cara Buono net worth is as much as $4 million, as of the data presented at the beginning of 2018. Television and films are the major source of Buono’s wealth, although she adds sums from various endorsement deals, too.
Cara Buono Net Worth $4 million
To begin with, the girl was raised in The Bronx in a working family with two brothers and a sister. She graduated from Columbia University in 1995 with a double specialization in English and political science.
Concerning her professional career, Cara Buono made her debut as an actress in “Spook House”, then began her film career starring with Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke in “Waterland” in 1992. In 1997, she directed and produced the short film “Baggage” (1997) starring Liev Schreiber, since when much of her work has been in independent films, such as “Next Stop Wonderland” (1998) by Brad Anderson, “Chutney Popcorn” (1999) directed by Nisha Ganatra and “Two Ninas” (1999) by Neil Turitz which was also co-produced by Buono. The same year, she played a small role as a young Gerry Cummins in the television movie “Deep in My Heart” (1999). Her net worth was now well established.
In the new century, Buono received a starring role in the sixth and final season of “Third Watch” in which she appeared as the paramedic Grace Foster, and was then seen in the sixth season of “The Sopranos” (2006 – 2007) as Kelli Moltisanti and in the sixth season of “Dead Zone” (2007) as Sheriff Anna Turner. For her guest role of Faye Miller in the fourth season of the series “Mad Men” (2010), Buono was nominated for Primetime Emmy as well as for Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2012, she starred in the dark comedy film “The Discoverers” by Justin Schwarz, before appearing in 2013 as a guest star in the series “Castle”, “Good Wife” and “Elementary”. In 2014, she was cast as a main in the psychological thriller film “A Good Marriage” based on the novel of the same name written by Stephen King. In the fourth season of the series “Person of Interest” (2014 – 2015) Buono played the recurring role of Martine Rousseau, adding steadily to her net worth.
More recently, since 2016, Buono has been portraying Karen Wheeler in the Netflix series “Stranger Things”, and landed the episodic roles in the television series “The Blacklist” Redemption” (2017) and “Bull” (2017).
To conclude, all the above mentioned engagements have increased the total size of Cara Buono’s net worth.
Finally, in the personal life of the actress, she married Peter Thum in the middle of 2009; her husband is a social entrepreneur and founder of Ethos Water. They have one child.
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