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- Rooney Mara isn't known for playing nice. The two-time Oscar-nominated actress has long portrayed characters that might be described as somber, spiky or subdued. She brilliantly dressed down Jesse Eisenberg's haughty Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Network," and dispensed violent revenge as a mohawked hacker in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."
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Feb 3, 2023 · Rooney Mara isn't known for playing nice. The two-time Oscar-nominated actress has long portrayed characters that might be described as somber, spiky or subdued.
- Rooney Mara Comes from A Billionaire NFL Football Family
- Her Sister, Kate Mara, Is Also A Famous Actress
- She Beat Out Several A-Listers For Her First Leading Lady Role
- Mara Went Full-Blown Method Acting For The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
- She Doesn’T Like Watching Her Own Movies
- Rooney Is Actually Her Middle Name
- She Has Son with Joaquin Phoenix called River
Acting wasn’t in her genes, but sports certainly was. Rooney Mara comes from a long line of NFL football dynasties, on both sides. Her father’s family (the Mara’s) founded the New York Giants team, while her mother’s (the Rooney’s) founded the Pittsburgh Steelers, according to Vogue.And still to this day, both families continue to run their respect...
Both Rooney Mara and her older sister, Kate, chose the screen over the field. Mara revealed in an interview with Vogue her mother introduced them to black-and-white films at an early age and inspired their love of film. However, Kate was a little more certain of her theatrical career path than Rooney. She got her start on Nip/Tuck when she was just...
Prior to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara was a relative unknown. She starred in a handful of indie films, a guest appearance on Law & Order SVU (like so many others) and horror flick and remake, Nightmare on Elm Street in 2010. But it wasn’t until Mara was cast in the small but impactful fictional role of Erica Albright in David Finche...
Rooney Mara didn’t take the simple route when she scooped her first big role. Instead, she took things very seriously — even by way of a few physical alterations. Mara reportedly spent more than a year as Lisbeth Salander — a fiery tech wiz who fights crime and seeks revenge on a man who began sexually abusing her from a young age. “I think the thi...
Like Adam Driver, who famously walked out of a 2019 NPR podcast interview after the host began to play a clip of him singing in Marriage Story, Rooney Mara also doesn’t like to see herself on screen. We feel that. In 2013, the actress told Vogue: “Anytime I see anything I’ve done, I wish that it had gone differently.” Aside from nitpicking her role...
Rooney Mara was actually born, Patricia Rooney Mara, but growing up she was known as “Tricia.” While Mara told Paper magazine in 2010 that she “never felt like a Tricia,” it wasn’t until her acting career was in full swing that she gave the name a flick altogether. Instead, the 36-year-old opted to use her middle name, Rooney (also her mother’s mai...
Rooney Mara previously dated Charlie McDowell (now married to Lily Collins) but since 2016, she’s been in a relationship with another esteemed actor, Joaquin Phoenix. Hollywood’s coolest couple met on set of 2013’s indie sci-fi flick, Her.The critically-acclaimed film sees Phoenix as Theodore Twombly, an introvered writer, who falls in love with a ...
Rooney Mara has a compelling lineup of films that will showcase her dynamic talent in the coming years. 2024 is noted for the anticipated release of Polaris, where audiences will see Mara in a central role. In addition to Polaris, she is set to star in the drama Women Talking, produced by Amazon Studios.
Apr 24, 2022 · An anti-glamour multimillionaire with a gothic aesthetic: Rooney Mara, the enigmatic star who put her career before her fortune. “I’m mysterious even to myself,” admits the actress from...
Aug 22, 2013 · This Is Rooney Mara. Aloof, icy, playful, curious, remote, opaque, funny, shy, distant, nice, impenetrable, guarded, unreadable. Rooney Mara happens to be all of these things. Rooney Mara is...
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Jul 26, 2021 · Mara has five live-action films slated for this year: "Una," based on David Harrower's play "Blackbird"; "The Secret Scripture," based on a novel of the same name; "Lion," based on the memoir...
Feb 12, 2013 · Over the past two years, 27-year-old Rooney Mara has emerged as one of the most talked about and talented—if intriguingly complicated and enigmatic—young actresses of her generation. In fact, Mara’s ability to convey a range of often competing emotions without going over the top—used to such great effect in her Oscar-nominated ...
