Actor

Tara Mallen

September 1, 1964 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Tara Mallen is an award winning actor, director, and the Producing Artistic Director at Chicago's acclaimed Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. Her screen credits include the 2023 Sundance Breakout Ghostlight, The Last Shift, Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, and the indie feature Fools, as well as TV appearances on Dark Matter (Apple TV), Empire (Fox); BOSS (Starz), Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. (NBC), Sense8 (Netflix) the pilot Doubt (CBS/Sony). She was recently featured in the 2023 Coca Cola commercial "New Guy" directed by Chris Storer.

Notable work

6.7
Contagion (2011)
as Minnesota Health #4
7.1
Empire (2015)
as Dr. Stein
7.8
Dark Matter (2024)
as Alesia Cheney

Often works with

Katherine Mallen Kupferer
3 titles together
Ghostlight, Fools, Mouse
Sanaa Lathan
2 titles together
Contagion, Boss
Mary Hollis Inboden
2 titles together
Boss, Mouse
Francis Guinan
2 titles together
Boss, Ghostlight
Danny Goldring
2 titles together
Boss, Fools
Bradley Grant Smith
2 titles together
The Last Shift, Ghostlight

Full filmography · 10

Vespers
as Miriam
Upcoming
Winter Hymns
as Bonnie
2026
Mouse
as Barbara Dunn
2026
Ghostlight
as Sharon
20247.1
The Last Shift
as Angry Customer
20205.7
Fools
as Vera
2016
Contagion
as Minnesota Health #4
20116.7