She has also appeared in the films Stardom (2000), Lost and Delirious (2001), Wicker Park (2004), Suck (2009), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), and Brooklyn (2015).[5] [6] Paré's father was an actor and drama teacher who toured with a theatre company, and her mother acted in amateur productions; her uncle Paul was a comedian with the sketch comedy troupe Radio Free Vestibule.She studied drama at TheatreWorks and appeared in over half a dozen amateur theatre productions as a teenager, including roles as Maid Marian in Robin Hood and Lucy in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.[11] Paré landed a small role in the television film Bonanno: A Godfather's Story during her final year in high school, which convinced her to pursue acting as a career.[12] She also had small roles in an episode of the horror television series Big Wolf on Campus and the French film En Vacances (1999).[17] Paré appeared in the television miniseries Random Passage (2002), based on a series of award-winning novels by Bernice Morgan.[22] She filmed Suck (2008), a vampire horror-comedy written and directed by Rob Stefaniuk,[23] for which role she learned to play the bass guitar.[26] Also in 2010, Paré joined the cast of the AMC television series Mad Men, playing Don Draper's second wife, Megan Calvet.