Cara SeymourFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: British-born actress Cara Seymour entered into a budding film career after establishing herself on-stage in both England and the United States. In the U.K., her performance in Now and at the Hour of Our Death earned her a Time Out award; in New York, she won an Obie for her work in Mike Leigh's...Read More

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An Education

Actors: Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper

Synopsis: A suburban London teen finds her traditional education replaced by something slightly more sinister when an older, more worldly suitor sweeps her off of her feet while placing her future in jeopardy. London, 1961: 16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is smart, attractive, and eager to start her Read More

10/9/09
1983

Actors: Andrew Garfield, Cara Seymour, Chris Walker, Daniel Mays, David Morrissey

2009
The Auteur

Actors: Melik Malkasian, John Breen, Katherine Flynn, Cara Seymour, Victor Morris

Synopsis: Director James Westby takes the helm for this satire of the pornographic film industry following a once successful adult film director who's attempting to revive his failing career. Perhaps by teaming with his former lead actor, ageing Italian porn auteur can recapture the sensual glory of such Read More

2008
The Savages

Actors: Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco, Peter Friedman, David Zayas

Synopsis: A pair of siblings are forced to set aside their discomfort with one another for the sake of their father in this low-key comedy drama from writer/director Tamara Jenkins. Wendy Savage (Laura Linney) is a struggling playwright living in New York City who works a day job to support herself and Read More

11/28/07
The Notorious Bettie Page

Actors: Gretchen Mol, Christopher Bauer, Jared Harris, Sarah Paulson, Cara Seymour

Synopsis: Celebrated and vilified in equal measure, the pinup goddess Bettie Page inspired a legion of followers -- and an indecency scandal -- by appearing in a series of nude, sado-masochistic, and/or revealing magazine spreads in the 1950s. An era later, writer/director Mary Harron casts a knowing eye Read More

4/14/06
Steal Me

Actors: Cara Seymour, Danny Alexander, Hunter Parrish, Paz de la Huerta, John Terry

Synopsis: A family goes through some changes when an unusual sort of drifter crosses their path in this independent coming-of-age drama. Jake (Danny Alexander) is a homeless 15-year-old kid with a fondness for stealing things and a precocious appetite for older women. Jake is passing through a small Montana Read More

9/9/05
Birth

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Alison Elliott

Synopsis: Directed by Jonathan Glazer, Birth takes place in New York's Upper East Side, where Anna (Nicole Kidman), a 35-year-old widow, resides. Just as Anna has shaken off what she thought were the final remnants of her old life -- she has even found love with a new man, Joseph (Danny Huston), whom she Read More

10/29/04
Evergreen

Actors: Cara Seymour, Mary Kay Place, Noah Fleiss, Gary Farmer, Lynn Cohen, Addie Land

Synopsis: Writer/director Enid Zentelis makes her feature-length debut with the coming-of-age drama Evergreen, shot on-location in Seattle, WA. Teenager Henri (Addie Land) and her single mother Kate (Cara Seymour) move in with Henri's grandmother (Lynn Cohen) in a crumbling old house. Kate works at a Read More

9/10/04
Adaptation

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour

Synopsis: The creative team behind Being John Malkovich -- director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman -- return with this equally offbeat comedy, in which Kaufman himself becomes the leading character. Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a gifted but profoundly neurotic screenwriter who, after the Read More

1/10/02
Gangs of New York

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly

Synopsis: The violent rise of gangland power in New York City at a time of massive political corruption and the city's evolution into a cultural melting pot set the stage for this lavish historical epic, which director Martin Scorsese finally brought to the screen almost 30 years after he first began to Read More

2002
Silent Grace

Actors: Orla Brady, Cathleen Bradley, Cara Seymour, Dawn Bradfield, Conor Mullen

Synopsis: Silent Grace, the debut feature from director Maeve Murphy, is based on actual events. In the early 1980s, a new inmate (Cathleen Bradley) is thrown into prison with a group of female IRA insurgents led by Orla Brady). Although the newcomer has been put there to destabalize the group, they convert Read More

2002
Dancer in the Dark

Actors: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey

Synopsis: Reportedly the third in acclaimed director Lars von Trier's "Golden Hearts" trilogy (preceded by Breaking the Waves and The Idiots), this film is a hip reworking of the classic Hollywood Musical, starring international pop diva Bjork. Set somewhere in rural Washington state, Czech immigrant Selma Read More

10/6/00
American Psycho

Actors: Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis

Synopsis: Bret Easton Ellis' dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this unsettling drama with black comic overtones. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm. Bateman is the Read More

4/14/00
A Good Baby

Actors: Henry Thomas, David Strathairn, Cara Seymour, Danny Nelson, Jayne Morgan

Synopsis: A small town's secrets prove deeper and more mysterious than they initially seemed in A Good Baby. Toker (played by Henry Thomas) is a young man living in a small North Carolina community, where he prefers to keep to himself. One day, while taking a walk in the woods, Toker finds a baby, and Read More

1999