Rooney Mara

Her Click to look into! >> Read More... full name is Patricia Rooney Mara. She was born and brought up at Bedford in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... , which is a town in Westchester County. Her father's family was known to be the founders of the professional American football team named New York Giants while her mother's family were the founders of Pittsburgh Steelers, which is also an American football team. Timothy Christopher Mara, her father, was the vice president of New York Giants while Kathleen McNulty, her mother was a part-time real estate agent. Being the third child, Mara has an older brother, an older sister and a younger brother. Her father was of German, French-Canadian and Irish ancestry while her mother was a descent of Northern Irish and Italy. She was graduated in the year 2003 from Fox Lane High School in New York. She then attended the George Washington University for a span of one year and then to Gallatin School of Individualized Study, a New York University where she studied different subjects like international social policy and nonprofits, psychology and completed her graduation in 2010.

Her sister being a professional actress, she got inspired by her and after watching many classic movies like Binging Up Baby, Gone with the Wind and Rebecca, she decided to be an actress though she refused to act like a child. She acted as background actor along with her sister in the beginning. Her debut in television was in the episode of "Law & Order" drama in the year 2006 followed by acting as a guest-star in "Women's Murder Club," a legal drama in the year 2007 and then played in one episode in 2008 in "The Cleaner." As an American actress, her screen debut was known to be "Urban Legends: Bloody Mary," in 2005 and then an independent drama called "Tanner Hall" in 2009, followed by "A Nightmare on Elm Street in 2010. In the next year 2011, she played a title role in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by David Fincher David Fincher was born on 28th August 1962 and is >> Read More... , which based on the book series of Stieg Larsson.

The film was a remake, but Rooney felt that it is another interpretation or version of the said novel. She got nominated for Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for the criteria of Best Actress. She played the " Side Effects Click to look into! >> Read More... ", a thriller in 2013, "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" and "Her" which is a romantic science fiction comedy drama. In the next year, she played " Trash Click to look into! >> Read More... " which is an adventure film. She then performed in " Carol Click to look into! >> Read More... ", a romantic drama film by Todd Haynes. For this, she won the award for being the best actress at the Cannes Film Festival in the year 2015. She worked as a costume designer of Charlie McDowell, her boyfriend for the " The One I Love Click to look into! >> Read More... " film in the year 2014, whom she has been dating since 2010. In the next year, she acted in the film " Pan Click to look into! >> Read More... " as Tiger Lily directed by Joe Wright Joe Wright is a British director born on 25th of A >> Read More... . She is more known by her middle name "Ronney" rather than her first name as she dropped it after becoming an actress saying that she never felt like a "Tricia" and the name Rooney is memorable to her. She is famous for her charitable services. She supervises the Uweza Foundation. It supports the development programs for families including children in the slum areas of Nairobi in Kenya which is known to be one of the largest slum areas in Africa. She is the president of the board of directors of that foundation.