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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 (1984). She soon graduated to minor roles in Stephen Gyllenhaal's Waterland (1992), with Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke; as an illegal immigrant in The Cowboy Way (1994), with Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland; and in Noah Baumbach's much-loved indie comedy, Kicking and Screaming (1995), which reunited her with her "Abby, My Love" co-star, Josh Hamilton. While cultivating her acting career, Buono also graduated from Columbia University with a double major in English and political science in 1995, which she earned in just three years. After graduation, Buono concentrated largely on character roles in independent films and on television. She was the wife and confidante of prison guard Robert Sean Leonard, who served as an earpiece for monstrous 1930s criminal Carl Panzram (James Woods) in Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995), before playing an accident-prone opera singer in love with a young man (Gibson Frazier) with Jazz-Era affectations in the offbeat Man of the Century (1999). She soon added behind-the-camera credits to her expanding resume, including writer/director on the short, Baggage (1997), with Liev Schreiber and Minnie Driver, and served as co-producer and star of the comedy, Two Ninas (1999), about a pair of similarly monikered women (Buono and Amanda Peet) who fell for a very unlucky man. She continues to write and co-wrote "When the Cat's Away" (1999), with Brad Anderson, and wrote an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, "This Side of Paradise". Buono's screen credits grew more obscure at the launch of the new millennium - art house and film festival circles saw the lesbian drama, Chutney Popcorn (1999), Attention Shoppers (2000), Happy Accidents (2000) with Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio. She soon turned to television for wider exposure, and earned it through supporting roles on high profile series like Third Watch (1999) and The Sopranos (1999). In 2007, she joined the cast of the cult favorite, The Dead Zone (2002) (USA, 2002-2007) as Sheriff Anna Turner, who investigated the death of her predecessor (Chris Bruno). During this period, Buono maintained her screen career in features as varied as Ang Lee's Hulk (2003), playing David Banner's mother, who was killed by his genetically-induced rage, and Beer League (2006), and Artie Lange's hapless lay-about love interest. In 2010, she appeared as the divorced mother of Kodi Smit-McPhee in Let Me In (2010), the critically-praised American remake of the Swedish vampire movie, Let the Right One In (2008). That same year, she landed her most widely seen role-to-date on Mad Men (2007), playing Dr. Faye Miller. For her efforts, Buono received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011.

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
as Self - Karen Wheeler

Things Like This
as Margie Kitlin

V13
as Ida

Queen of the Ring
as Bertha Burke

In Fidelity
as Holly Ayker
Always, Already
as Cara

The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story
as Debra

She Came from the Woods
as Heather McCalister

The Girl from Plainville
as Gail Carter

Talking Sopranos
as Self

The Romanoffs
as Debbie Newman

God Friended Me
as Karen

Monsters and Men
as Stacey

The Bad Seed
as Angela

All Saints
as Aimee Spurlock

The Blacklist: Redemption
as Anna Copeland

Bull
as Amaya Andrews
Half the Perfect World
as Sonia

Stranger Things
as Karen Wheeler

Supergirl
as Gamemnae / Gemma Cooper

Emily & Tim
as Emily (Segment 3)

Paper Towns
as Mrs. Jacobsen

A Good Marriage
as Betty Pike

The Mysteries of Laura
as Julia Davis

The Discoverers
as Nell

Drew Peterson: Untouchable
as Kathleen Savio
Modern Love
as Nicky

Elementary
as Sarah Cushing

Person of Interest
as Martine Rousseau

Let Me In
as Owen's Mother

Hawaii Five-0
as Agent Allison Marsh
Betrayed
as Amy Waite

The Good Wife
as Charlene Peterson

Castle
as Siobhan O'Doul

Cthulhu
as Dannie

The Unquiet
as Julie Bishop

Mad Men
as Faye Miller

Brothers and Sisters
as Rose

Beer League
as Linda

From Other Worlds
as Joanne
Six Months to Live
as Alice

Miss Match
as Michelle Schiff

NCIS
as Commander Sarah Resnick

Hulk
as Edith Banner

The Dead Zone
as Sheriff Anna Turner

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Charlotte Caspari

Chutney Popcorn
as Janis

Two Ninas
as Nina Cohen

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Tracy Logan

Attention Shoppers
as Claire Suavez

Takedown
as Christina Painter

Happy Accidents
as Bette

Man of the Century
as Virginia Clemens

In a Class of His Own
as Sherry Donato

Third Watch
as Grace Foster

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Rachel Zelinsky

Family Law
as Carly Hanson

Deep in My Heart
as Young Gerry Cummins

The Sopranos
as Kelli Lombardo

River Red
as Rachel