# Eloise Mumford

Eloise Mumford (born September 24, 1986) is an American actress known for her roles on the television series Lone Star, The River, The Right Stuff and the Fifty Shades of Grey film series.

## Early life and education

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

## Career

Mumford starred as Lena Landry on the ABC paranormal series The River in 2012 and on the Fox series Lone Star in 2010, in which she was cast during her first pilot season after college. She was the female lead in the Blumhouse Productions feature Not Safe For Work for Universal Pictures, and the female lead in the indy Drones alongside Matt O'Leary, directed by Rick Rosenthal.
In February 2012, she was cast as the female lead in an ABC drama pilot titled Reckless. 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.
She starred alongside Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz in the indy Standing Up, Falling Down (2019). In 2020 she played Trudy Cooper, the female lead in the Disney+ streaming TV series The Right Stuff. In 2024 she appeared in eight episodes of Amazon Prime’s Cross as Shannon Whitmer, a woman abducted by a serial killer.

## Filmography
### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2008 | Crash | Megan Emory | 4 episodes |
| 2009 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Vanessa | Episode: "Sugar" |
| 2009 | Mercy | Hannah | Episode: "Some of Us Have Been to the Desert" |
| 2010 | Lone Star | Lindsay Holloway | Main cast |
| 2012 | The River | Lena Landry | Main cast |
| 2012 | Christmas with Holly | Maggie | TV movie |
| 2015 | Just in Time for Christmas | Lindsay | TV movie |
| 2017, 2019 | Chicago Fire | Hope Jacquinot | Recurring role (seasons 6, 8) |
| 2018 | A Veteran's Christmas | Captain Grace Garland | TV movie |
| 2020 | The Right Stuff | Trudy Cooper | |
| 2021 | The Baker's Son | Annie McBride | TV movie |
| 2021 | One December Night | Quinn Allan | TV movie |
| 2022 | The Presence of Love | Joss | TV movie |
| 2023 | Sweeter Than Chocolate | Lucy Sweet | TV Movie |
| 2024 | Cross | Shannon Whitmer | Main cast |

### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2009 | Some Boys Don't Leave | The Girl | Short film |
| 2012 | So Undercover | Sasha Stolezinsky/ Suzy Walters | Direct-to-video |
| 2013 | Drones | Sue Lawson | |
| 2014 | Not Safe for Work | Anna | |
| 2014 | In the Blood | Sandy Grant | |
| 2015 | The Night Is Young | Sid | |
| 2015 | Fifty Shades of Grey | Katherine "Kate" Kavanagh | |
| 2017 | Fifty Shades Darker | Katherine "Kate" Kavanagh | |
| 2018 | Fifty Shades Freed | Katherine "Kate" Kavanagh | |
| 2019 | Standing Up, Falling Down | Becky | |