Early life

Buono was born and raised in The Bronx, New York City, New York, in a blue-collar family with two brothers and a sister. She is of Italian descent.

Buono attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and is a 1995 graduate of Columbia University with a double major in English and political science. She earned her degree in three years. She made her acting debut in Harvey Fierstein's play Spook House.

Career

Buono continued stage work both on Broadway and Off Broadway, and started her film career opposite Ethan Hawke and Jeremy Irons in Waterland (1992). Much of her work has been in indie films such as Chutney Popcorn (1999), Happy Accidents (2000), Next Stop Wonderland (1998) and Two Ninas (1999), which she co-produced. In 1999, she played a small role as a young Gerry Cummins in the TV movie, Deep in My Heart (1999).

Buono has directed, produced and written films, including the short film Baggage (1997), which starred Liev Schreiber. She co-wrote the screenplay When the Cat's Away with Brad Anderson and sold a pitch to Miramax for a screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise.

She starred in the final season of the NBC drama Third Watch (1999) as paramedic Grace Foster, and Ang Lee's first Hulk movie from marvel comics 2003 as Rebecca Banner (whose name was changed to Edith for the film), the mother of Bruce Banner the Hulk.

She also appeared as Kelli, the wife of Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli), in the two-part final season of the HBO drama series The Sopranos, which aired in 2006 and 2007. Additionally, she appeared as Dr. Faye Miller in the fourth season of the AMC drama series Mad Men, for which she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011.

Personal life

As of August 2010, Buono lives in New York City's Greenwich Village with her husband, Ethos Water founder Peter Thum.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1992	Gladiator	Dawn
1992	Waterland	Judy Dobson
1994	Cowboy Way, TheThe Cowboy Way	Teresa Salazar
1995	Killer: A Journal of Murder	Esther Lesser
1995	Kicking and Screaming	Kate
1997	Made Men	Toni-Ann Antonelli
1998	Next Stop Wonderland	Julie
1998	River Red	Rachel
1999	Man of the Century	Virginia Clemens
1999	Two Ninas	Nina Cohen
1999	Chutney Popcorn	Janis
2000	Happy Accidents	Bette
2000	Takedown	Christina Painter
2000	Attention Shoppers	Claire Suarez
2003	Hulk	Edith Banner
2004	From Other Worlds	Joanne Schwartzbaum
2006	Artie Lange's Beer League	Linda Salvo
2007	Cthulhu	Dannie Marsh
2010	Betrayed	Amy Waite	Short film
2010	Stuff	Madeline	Short film
2012	The Discoverers	Nell
2014	A Good Marriage	Betty Pike
2015	Paper Towns	Connie Jacobsen
2015	Half the Perfect World	Sonia	Completed

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Dream Street	Joann	Episodes: Pilot, "Money for Nothing"
1991	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Abby Morris	Episode: "Abby, My Love"
1992	I'll Fly Away	Diane	Episodes: "Cool Winter Blues", "The Way Things Are", "Slow Coming Dark"
1993	Tribeca	Rose Polito	Episode: "The Hopeless Romantic"
1993	Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story	Tracey Lien	TV film
1995	Single Guy, TheThe Single Guy	Christie	Episode: "Tennis"
1996	New York Undercover	Connie	Episode: "A Time to Kill"
1996, 1998	Law & Order	Shelly Taggert / Alice Simonelli	Episodes: "Girlfriends", "Punk"
1999	Deep in My Heart	Young Gerry Cummins	TV film
2001	Family Law	Carly Hanson	Episode: "Intentions"
2002	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Charlotte Fielding	Episode: "Phantom"
2002	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Tracy Logan	Episode: "Chasing the Bus"
2002	Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven	Sarah (voice)	Video game
2003	Miss Match	Michelle Schiff	Episode: "The Love Bandit"
2004	Six Months to Live	Alice	Episode: "1.1"
2004-05	Third Watch	Grace Foster	Main role (24 episodes)
2006-07	Sopranos, TheThe Sopranos	Kelli Moltisanti	Recurring role (7 episodes)
2007	Law & Order	Attorney Shannon	Episode: "Melting Pot"
2007	Queens Supreme	Bettina Martinelli	Episode: "That Voodoo That You Do"
2007	Dead Zone, TheThe Dead Zone	Sheriff Anna Turner	Recurring role (6 episodes)
2008	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Rachel Zelinsky	Episode: "Unorthodox"
2008	Unquiet, TheThe Unquiet	Julie Bishop	TV film
2009	ER	Lisa Salamunovich	Episode: "And in the End..."
2009	NCIS	Navy Cdr. Sarah Resnik	Episode: "Power Down"
2010	Mad Men	Faye Miller	Regular role (10 episodes)
2011	Brothers & Sisters	Rose	Episodes: "Safe at Home", "The One That Got Away", "Brody"
2011	Hawaii Five-0	Agent Allison Marsh	Episode: "Ho'opa'i"
2011	Gifted Man, AA Gifted Man	Carol Gordan	Episode: "In Case of Discomfort"
2012	Drew Peterson: Untouchable	Kathleen Savio	TV film
2013	Castle	Siobhan O'Doul	Episode: "The Wild Rover"
2013	Good Wife, TheThe Good Wife	Charlene Peterson	Episode: "A More Perfect Union"
2014	Carrie Diaries, TheThe Carrie Diaries	Penny	Episode: "Hungry Like the Wolf"
2014	Elementary	Sarah Cushing	Episode: "Ears to You"
2014-15	Person of Interest	Martine Rousseau	Episodes: "Panopticon", "Prophets", "Point of Origin", "The Devil You Know", "The Cold War", "If-Then-Else", "Search and Destroy", "Asylum"

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