Rooney Mara

17 April, 1985

| 1.60 m

Actress

Producer

Costume Designer

Biography

Rooney Mara

Actress and philanthropist Rooney Mara was born on April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York. She made her screen debut in the slasher film Ulice strachu: Krwawa Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming-of-age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror remake Koszmar z ulicy Wiązów (2010), the biographical drama The Social Network (2010), the thriller remake Dziewczyna z tatuażem (2011), and the romantic drama Carol (2015).Patricia Rooney Mara is one of four children of Kathleen McNulty (née Rooney) and NFL football team New York Giants executive Timothy Christopher Mara. Her grandfathers were Wellington Mara, co-owner of the Giants, and Timothy Rooney, owner of Yonkers Raceway, and her grand-uncle is 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. Her father has Irish, German, and French-Canadian ancestry, and her mother is of Irish and Italian descent.After graduating from Bedford's Fox Lane High School, she went to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in South America for four months as part of the Traveling School, an open learning environment. She attended George Washington University for a year and then transferred to New York University, where she studied international social policy psychology and nonprofits. She took her degree from New York University in 2010. Her studies focused on non-profit organizations, as her family has a tradition of involvement in philanthropic causes.She had thought of acting after watching old movies and attending musical theater, but did not think of it as a serious vocation and was afraid she might fail at this. As a result of her reservations, she appeared in only one play while in high school.She began seriously focusing on acting when she was at New York...

Movies

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A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.

Carol

Carol (2015)

7.31h 58m

Metascore: 94

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The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.

Two intersecting love triangles. Obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin, Texas.

Una

Una (2016)

6.21h 34m

Metascore: 62

When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at her much-older former lover's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of their dark past threaten to unravel his new life. What follows is an emotional and unflinching excavation of inappropriate love, with shattering consequences.

Twelve men heard and spread the message of Jesus. Only one woman understood it.

A woman keeps a diary of her extended stay at a mental hospital.