Background
She is the daughter of David Mamet and Rebecca Pidgeon and is the half-sister of actress Zosia Mamet.
She is the daughter of David Mamet and Rebecca Pidgeon and is the half-sister of actress Zosia Mamet.
She has a brother, Noah. Mamet became legally emancipated at 15 so she could leave high school at 16 to pursue her career to become a playwright and actress. She started auditioning for acting parts when she was 14, but "nobody had ever hired me before.
So I thought I"d hire myself" by writing roles.
Mamet wrote, directed and starred in her first film, Two-Bit Waltz (2014), a semi-autobiographical movie with William H. Macy, her mother Rebecca Pigeon, and Jared Gilman. Mamet has also written plays, "Paris" and "The Solvit Kids", the latter of which she co-wrote with Jack Quaid
According to her co-actor, Tim Jo, who plays her love interest Reggie Jackson on the show, she never watches any of her own work.
They did an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a music video.