Eloise Mumford

Mumford, the middle child of parents Tom Mumford and Nancy Smith, was born and raised in Olympia, Washington, where she was home-schooled through fifth grade. After homeschooling, she attended Nova Middle School. She later attended Annie Wright Schools in Tacoma, Washington and Capital High School in Olympia.[1] She has an older sister, Anna, and a younger brother, Kai. Inspired at age seven by a local production of South Pacific, Mumford performed in high-school plays and at Olympia's Capital Playhouse.[1]

She graduated in 2009 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[1] She also is an alumnus of the Atlantic Acting School.[2] While in college, she starred with Jesse Eisenberg in director Maggie Kiley's well-received short film "Some Boys Don't Leave".[1] She understudied Elisabeth Moss in the Broadway production of Speed the Plow.[3]

Mumford starred as Lena Landry on the ABC paranormal series The River in 2012[4] and on the Fox series Lone Star in 2010, in which she was cast during her first pilot season after college.[5][6] She was the female lead in the Blumhouse Productions feature Not Safe For Work for Universal Pictures,[7] and the female lead in the indy Drones alongside Matt O'Leary, directed by Rick Rosenthal.[8]

In February 2012, she was cast as the female lead in an ABC drama pilot titled Reckless.[9] She played Anastasia Steele's roommate, Kate Kavanagh, in the Fifty Shades of Grey film (2015), and reprised the role in the sequels Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.[10]

She starred alongside Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz in the indy Standing Up, Falling Down (2019).[11] In 2020 she played Trudy Cooper, the female lead in the Disney+ streaming TV series The Right Stuff.[12]

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