Rooney Mara: biography, filmography and personal life of the actress

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Today the heroine of our story will be actress Rooney Mara. She is known to most viewers for her work in films such as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and A Nightmare on Elm Street. To get to know the actress better, we offer you to learn about the details of her career and personal life.

Rooney Mara: photo, biography

The future Hollywood celebrity was born on April 17, 1985 in one of the suburbs of the American metropolis of New York. At birth, the girl was named like this: Patricia Runa Mara. Her father, Timothy Christopher, was vice president of a local football team called the New York Giants at the time. Runa has two brothers, Daniel and Connor, and an older sister, Kate, who is an actress.

After graduating from high school in 2003, the girl went on a long trip to Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador as part of the Traveling School program. Then the future celebrity studied psychology, non-profit organizations and international social policy at New York University.

Rooney Mara: filmography, film debut

The girl started performing on the amateur theater stage while still studying at the university. In many ways, her decision to become an actress was facilitated by the example of her older sister, who from childhood dreamed of being a TV star. The first production in which Rooney took part was the classic play "Romeo and Juliet", where the girl played one of the main roles.

As for the film debut, it took place in 2005, when the Mara sisters starred together in the "horror movie" "Urban Legends-3". The young actress was noticed and began to be invited to small roles in various projects, including the TV series Law & Order (Rooney played a girl who can’t stand fat people) and the film The Cleaner (where she got the image of an experienced drug addict).

On the road to success

Very fruitful for Rooney was 2009, when she was approved for one of the leading roles in the film drama "Tanner Hall". The tape describes the life story and love affairs of four girls who were brought up in one of the orphanages in New England. In the same year, Rooney took part in the filming of a comedy called Youth Protest. In the project, the partners of the young actress on the set were such celebrities as Steve Buscemi, Christa B. Allen, Zach Galifianakis and Michael Cera. This was followed by the comedy "Winning Season", the independent film "The Challenge", and the film "Friends with a Advantage".

Continuing career

Rooney Mara, whose filmography was regularly updated with new notable works in the cinema, in 2010starred in a remake of the acclaimed 1984 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street. The director of the project was Samuel Bayer, and the partners of the heroine of our story on the set were Kyle Gallner and Jackie Earl Haley. The film was a success at the box office, so the filmmakers decided to shoot two more parts in the future.

In the same year, a picture with Runa called "The Social Network" was released, which tells about the history of the creation of Facebook.

Rooney Mara got another truly stellar role in 2011. She played the title character in the acclaimed film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo directed by David Fincher. The plot of the picture is based on the most popular book by journalist and writer Stieg Larsson. Interestingly, during the casting, Rooney managed to bypass such famous actresses as Scarlett Johansson, Katie Jarvis and Jennifer Lawrence. In the film, Mara played the role of a bisexual girl, a computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. According to the plot, Rooney's character helps the journalist Mikael Blomkvist, played by the famous actor Daniel Craig.

In 2013, several films with the participation of Rooney Mara are released at once. These are the crime film "Side Effect", the drama "Outlaw" and the comedies "The Un titled Project of Charlie Kauman and Spike Jones" and "Her".

In terms of current projects, Rooney is busy working on films such as Carol and Pan, which are expected to be released in 2015.

Private life

After moving to Los Angeles, Rooney lived with her older sister Kate for a long time. According to her, inDuring this period, they became very close and to this day are in contact, often calling up and discussing both personal life and work projects.

As for the relationship, since 2010 the actress has been dating the son of the famous actor Malcolm McDowell, Charlie McDowall.

Interesting facts

• Rooney has always disliked her first name (Patricia). According to her, she did not associate herself with him at all. Therefore, the girl decided to remove the first part of the name, and now everyone knows the actress as Rooney Mara.
• The heroine of our story is the great granddaughter of the founder of the famous major American football club called the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• Rooney Mara is the head of the Faces of Cybera charity foundation. This organization is engaged in the supply of food, medicines, as well as clothing and other necessary things to the residents of the slums of Kibera, located on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital - Nairobi.