Molly Bernard

Acting

Molly Bernard

Born 1988-04-10 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Molly Kate Bernard (born April 10, 1988) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Lauren Heller on the television series Younger. Molly Kate Bernard was born in Brooklyn, New York. She began her career in 2000 in the comedy drama Pay It Forward beside Kevin Spacey and Haley Joel Osment. After completing school, she returned to the screen by interpreting the leading part in a short film named Wrestling with the Past realized by Jason Leinwand. In 2013, she played Wendy during the seventh episode of the fifth season of the television series Royal Pains alongside Mark Feuerstein and Paulo Costanzo. The same year, she obtained a recurring role in the television series Alpha House where she played Angie Sullivan until 2014. In 2015, she played a recurring role in the television series Younger alongside Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff, where she portrayed Lauren Heller. She was promoted to series regular in season two. In 2015, she had a small role in the Nancy Meyers comedy The Intern, beside Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. Bernard has a bachelor's degree from Skidmore College and a MFA in acting from Yale School of Drama. Bernard is the granddaughter of actor Joseph Bernard, who co-founded the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She attended the Las Vegas Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Acting credits

Hit Man poster
6.8

A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

Hit Man

2024

The Intern poster
7.2

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.

The Intern

2015

Sully poster
7.2

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.

Sully

2016

Pay It Forward poster
7.4

Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.

Pay It Forward

2000

Otherhood poster
6.1

Feeling forgotten on Mother's Day, three best friends leave the suburbs and drive to New York City to surprise their adult sons.

Otherhood

2019

Damned If You Do poster
NR

A group of teenage friends sell their souls to the devil and life grants them different paths: a rock star, a tech mogul, and a high-profile activist. Years later, they must rely on an old classmate to try and escape Hell's grasp before the contract's deadline of their 25th high school reunion.

Damned If You Do

2025

Dreams in Nightmares poster
NR

After an abrupt layoff, Z embarks on a trip across the Midwestern United States in search of a friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid. Traveling with her two closest friends, these three queer black femmes find their priorities tested as shapeshifting threats in each city expose (inter)personal and ideological fractures.

Dreams in Nightmares

2026

Lone Star Bull poster
NR

Bull Jackson is a bouncer in a gay bar where Jordan performs as a drag queen by night and is a medical student by day. When Coco, their mentor and owner of the club, is shot in what appears to be a random homophobic attack, Bull and Jordan form an unlikely team to find those responsible.

Lone Star Bull

2026

The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems poster
NR

Bee Mitty, a high-ranking employee at an omnipotent techfirm, must help Ian - her depressed, activist brother - move into their Auntie's house while a toxic hurricane threatens New York City.

The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems

Best Man Dead Man poster
7.0

A bachelor party in the middle of nowhere quickly turns into a night of murder and mystery when the best man ends up with a knife in his head. Everyone is a suspect and only an eccentric private eye in town can solve the mystery.

Best Man Dead Man

2024

Milkwater poster
4.1

Seeking direction and purpose, Milo rashly decides to become a surrogate and egg donor for an older gay man she meets in a bar. However, as Milo becomes increasingly attached to him, she starts leveraging the pregnancy as a means of staying embedded in his life.

Milkwater

2021

Behind the camera