
Acting
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 …

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

Queen of the Ring
as Bertha

Things Like This
as Margie Kitlin

V13
as Ida

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 Bad Seed
as Angela

Monsters and Men
as Stacey

The Girl from Plainville
as Gail Carter · 8 ep.

Talking Sopranos
as Self · 1 ep.

God Friended Me
as Karen · 1 ep.

The Romanoffs
as Debbie Newman · 1 ep.

The Blacklist: Redemption
as Anna Copeland · 1 ep.

Stranger Things
as Karen Wheeler · 38 ep.

Bull
as Amaya Andrews · 1 ep.

Supergirl
as Gamemnae / Gemma Cooper · 9 ep.

The Mysteries of Laura
as Julia Davis · 1 ep.

Elementary
as Sarah Cushing · 1 ep.
Mad Men
2007