Rooney Mara Bio
Patricia Rooney Mara is an American actress. She started her acting career by playing supporting roles in various films, before starring A Nightmare on Elm Street as Nancy Holbrook in 2010 and The Social Network (biographical drama film) as Erica Albright the same year. Her career breakthrough came up when she portrayed Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium book series.
She starred “Side Effects”, thriller, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” and the sci-fi romantic drama “Her” and “Trash” which was an adventure drama film, in 2013 and 2014 respectively. In 2015 she received more acclaims for her performance in Todd Haynes’ romantic drama Carol, which she tied for the Best Actress Award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, SAG Award, BAFTA Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Mara is not only known for shooting films but also for her charity work and oversees the charity Uweza Foundation, which supports empowerment programs for children and families in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in Africa.
In David Fincher’s biopic drama film The Social Network, she played Erica Albright, who breaks up with Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook. In August 2010, Mara was cast as the lead in a film adaptation of the Millennium book trilogy by Stieg Larsson. David Fincher directed the first film, based on the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, with Scott Rudin producing. Mara did not consider the film to be a remake, but another interpretation of the novel.
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In late 2011, Mara was considered for Kathryn Bigelow’s action film Zero Dark Thirty, but the role went to Jessica Chastain. She played Emily Taylor, “a woman who turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband’s upcoming release from prison.”
That same year, she starred in David Lowery’s 2013 independent film Ain’t Them Bodies Saints which is described as a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde story, alongside Casey Affleck and Ben Foster. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013 where IFC Films purchased the rights for U.S. distribution.
In 2014, Mara served as the costume designer on her former boyfriend Charlie McDowell’s film The One I Love, credited as Bree Daniel. In 2015, Mara played Tiger Lily in the Joe Wright-directed fantasy film Pan, a role that she received a great deal of criticism for taking.
At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, she tied for the Best Actress award for her role in the film Carol. In 2016, Mara voiced The Sisters in the stop motion animated film Kubo and the Two Strings.
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Mara celebrates her birthday on the 17th of April every year. She was born and raised in Bedford, New York in 1985.
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Rooney Mara was born and raised in Bedford, New York with both parents, Kathleen McNulty (Irish and Italian descent) and Timothy Christopher Mara (NFL football team New York Giants executive) who had Irish, German, and French-Canadian ancestry. She also has four siblings.
Her grandfathers were Wellington Mara, co-owner of the Giants, and Timothy Rooney, owner of Yonkers Raceway, and her grand-uncle was Steelers Chairman Dan Rooney the former Ambassador to Ireland. She is the great-granddaughter of Art Rooney, the founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers football franchise.
She attended Bedford’s Fox Lane High School and graduated then proceeded to Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in South America for four months as part of the Traveling School, an open learning environment, where her studies focused on non-profit organizations. She went to New York University where she began focusing on acting, and with her older sister’s inspirations, she went ahead and pursued the craft, auditioning for acting jobs at age 19.
She appeared with her sister Kate in the video horror movie Urban Legends: Bloody Mary in 2005, referring to herself as “Patricia Mara”. As “Tricia Mara”, she had guest roles on television and won her first lead in the movie Tanner Hall of 2009, which was shot by the end of 2007.
Rooney Mara Husband
Joaquin Rafael Phoenix is her husband’s name. Just as Mara, He is also an American actor, producer, and activist. For his work as an actor, Phoenix has received a Grammy Award, a Golden Globe Award and three Academy Award nominations. He started acting in television series together with his brother River Phoenix and sister Summer Phoenix.
His first film was released was in the film Parenthood in 1989. During his period as a child actor, he was credited as Leaf Phoenix, his self-given name. He received international attention for portraying in Commodus in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He and River Phoenix hold the distinction of being the only brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards.
His other films include the satire film Buffalo Soldiers of 2001, the science fiction thriller Signs of 2002, the animated film Brother Bear of 2003, the historical drama film Hotel Rwanda of 2004, the psychological thriller The Village of 2004, the documentary Earthlings of 2005, the romantic drama Two Lovers of 2008, the drama The Immigrant of 2013, the romantic science-fiction drama Her of 2013, the crime comedy-drama film Inherent Vice of 2014, and the thriller You Were Never Really Here of 2017, which made him win the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor.
Putting aside his acting career, Phoenix he has ventured into directing music videos, as well as producing films and television shows. Some of her soundtracks include Walk the Line, for which he won the Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. As the saying goes, birds of the same feather flock together, Phoenix just proved it.
He is also a social activist as her wife, lending his support to a number of charities and humanitarian organizations. He is on the board of directors for The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization that provides daily meals to students of township schools in Soweto of South Africa. Phoenix is also well known for his animal rights advocacy. He has been a vegan since the age of three and campaigns for PETA and In Defense of Animals.
Rooney Mara Net Worth
Rooney Mara has a net worth of $12 million dollars. Celebrity net worth states that her salary for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was $200,000, which was surprisingly low.
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