Hannah Gross is a Canadian actress. The daughter of Canadian actors Paul Gross and Martha Burns, she is most known for her performances in independent cinema and for playing Debbie Mitford in the Netflix drama series Mindhunter (2017). Gross has appeared in a wide range of films throughout her career, including I Used to Be Darker (2013), Her Smell (2018), Joker (2019), Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019), Falling (2020), Tesla (2020), The Adults (2023), and Infinite Summer (2024).
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Early life
Gross was born and raised in Toronto. She is the daughter of Canadian actors Martha Burns and Paul Gross. She attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre, minoring in Religious Studies.
Career
Gross began her career in the early 2000s with uncredited roles in the films Men with Brooms and Wilby Wonderful. She also worked on stage. In 2010, Gross played Katie in Sharon Pollock's 1984 play Doc and directed Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) for the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. She performed in Williams' 1953 one-act play Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen in 2012.
Gross was cast in I Used to Be Darker (2013) after meeting its director, Matthew Porterfield, at the after show party for the New York City screening of his previous film, Putty Hill (2010). Also in 2013, she played the title character in Dustin Guy Defa's short film Lydia Hoffman Lydia Hoffman.
