Kate Mara is an American actor. She’s best known for playing journalist Zoe Barnes in the Netflix movie House of Cards, recurring role of computer analyst Shari Rothenberg on the Fox television show Minority Report and also appearing in the movie’s Invictus and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Now aged 33, Kate Mara has appeared in some less well known movies such as the TV shows Mom, Swing Vote and now the biopic about former First Lady Hillary Clinton called What Happened, Kate. In this movie, Kate Mara would play the role of a loyal wife of a famous politician who was found unfaithful and murdered alongside her best friend and colleague.
It’s interesting to note that Kate Mara was brought into this project as a much less iconic love interest for director Todd Strauss, despite the fact that she is forty years old and by all accounts an experienced actress. This fits in with the movie overall strategy of focusing on the political backdrop rather than a love story between two people. It should be noted though that Todd Strauss is a very successful romantic film maker himself with several movies that have won multiple awards at the Oscars, so there was likely little interest in using Kate in what was considered a commercial flop.
In the third act of the movie, Kate Mara’s character is herself a legal age woman working in the private sector, which strongly suggests that she could be younger still. If the character is indeed a legal age woman then she is in a profession where experience and age are not issues. This would lend credence to the theory that she could easily be in an acting profession but not in a legal one, which would make sense if true. The other theory that could be put forward to explain her current appearance in what appears to be an entertainment news story is that she is actually a member of the Mara family. This would explain her professional association with the firm mentioned in the article above.