Clara Mamet

Mamet was born in Randolph, Vermont, the daughter of playwright David Mamet and actress Rebecca Pidgeon, and is the half-sister of actress Zosia Mamet.^[3] She has another half-sister, Willa Mamet, and a brother, Noah Mamet.^[4] Her father was born to a Jewish family and her mother converted to Judaism.^[5]

Mamet became legally emancipated at 15 so she could leave high school at 16 to pursue her career to become a playwright and actress.^[6][3] 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.^[7] Mamet wrote, directed and starred in her first film, Two-Bit Waltz (2014), a semi-autobiographical movie with William H. Macy, her mother Rebecca Pidgeon, and Jared Gilman.^[8] Mamet has also written plays, Paris and The Solvit Kids, the latter co-written with Jack Quaid.^[7]

In 2012, along with her half-sister Zosia Mamet, she launched a folk music duo project called The Cabin Sisters. In April, they both played live in The Bowery Electric in New York City. In 2013, The Cabin Sisters launched a Kickstarter to fund the shooting of their first music video for their song, "Bleak Love". The campaign was unsuccessful and ended on June 9th, raising only $2,783 out of their requested budget of $32,000.^[9][10]

In September 2015, it was revealed Mamet had been cast in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising.^[11]