Background
Marnò was born in Los Los Angeles
Marnò was born in Los Los Angeles
She was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover in Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor in French and German comparative literature from Barnard College of Columbia University and her Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.
She currently resides in Brooklyn, New New York Marnò played the title role in the 2008 film The Stoning of Soraya M., about a woman whose husband falsely accuses her of adultery, resulting in her death by stoning. In addition she has had roles in a number of television series including The Paul Reiser Show, The Glades, Hung, The Mentalist, Bones, The Unit, Medium, K-ville, and Standoff.
Marnò also appeared in the Untitled John Wells Medical Drama Pilot, which was not aired.
She also stars in Ana Lily Amirpour"s directorial debut, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, produced by Elijah Wood, under his company, The Woodshed. Marnò also directs and writes screenplays.
She has adapted When the Lights Went Out as a play and it received its first production at New York Stage & in July 2013 starring Laura Innes from Emergency. Marnò"s short film, Incoming, which she wrote and directed, was accepted to the Noor Iranian Festival, Los Angeles SHORTS FEST, the Asians on Festival, and the District of Columbia Asian Pacific American Festival. She can be seen as reporter Ayla Sayyad on seasons two and three of the acclaimed Netflix series House of Cards, and as Mossad agent and assassin Samar Navabi, in seasons 2 and 3 of The Blacklist.
She also voice acts in the popular video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.