Rooney Mara Net Worth

Rooney Mara's Quotes

• [on the poster for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)] There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.
• [on portraying Lisbeth Salander] I spent over a year with the character and there are so many different things that I love about her. I think the thing that makes her such a compelling character is that you do sort of fall instantly in love with her, but at the same time you don't always agree with what she's doing and you also question her and you get frustrated by her. She's just an incredibly multi-layered character.
• [on her The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) character] She's unlike any character I've read before, and I think there's a reason the whole world has fallen in love with her. It's hard not to. I felt like I really understood her. I went in for Erica Albright never thinking I'd get it because I couldn't really relate to her. Playing that character was actually much more foreign to me than playing Salander, but they loved me, which was a shock.
• I refuse to engage in anything until I'm fully sure that I'm capable of it.
• [on Lisbeth Salander] There aren't many interesting and diverse parts out there for women. There seem to be a few different stereotypical roles that get recycled, so it was refreshing to have this complex character for a woman; very rare.

Interesting Facts about Rooney Mara

1. Younger sister of Kate Mara. Cousin of John Mara Jr..
2. Considers Gena Rowlands to be her favorite actress and A Woman Under the Influence (1974) to be her favorite film.
3. Great-granddaughter of Art Rooney.
4. Granddaughter of Wellington Mara and Timothy Rooney.
5. Great-grandfather Tim Mara founded the New York Giants. Great-grandfather Art Rooney founded the Pittsburgh Steelers.
6. Daughter of Timothy Christopher Mara, a scout for the New York Giants and Kathleen McNulty, née Rooney.
7. Uncle John Mara is CEO of the New York Giants since 2005.
8. Rooney Mara founded the non-profit organization Faces of Kibera. It provides housing, food, and medical care for orphans in Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. The charity's goal is to build an orphanage in the region, for which six acres of land have been purchased. The charity auctions memorabilia from the Steelers and Giants, as well as training camp events on eBay to raise money.
9. Rooney and her sister Kate Mara both appeared in Best Picture Oscar nominated films in 2011. Rooney was in The Social Network (2010), Kate in 127 Hours (2010).
10. Several sources, including Vogue and Entertainment Weekly, reported that the piercings (including multiple ear, eyebrow, and nipple piercings) that Rooney Mara sports, as Lisbeth Salander, in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) were real, not cosmetic simulations. Mara got the piercings in a series of sessions in Brooklyn and Sweden.
11. Voted #3 on Ask men's top 99 "most desirable" women of 2012.
12. Learned to play the guitar for her role in the romantic drama Song to Song (2017).
13. Turned down the role of Estella in Great Expectations (2012). Holliday Grainger was eventually cast.
14. Her paternal grandfather was of Irish descent and her paternal grandmother was of half German, as well as of French-Canadian and Irish, ancestry. Her mother is of Irish and Italian descent.
15. Great-uncle Dan Rooney was the US Ambassador to Ireland from 2009 to 2012.
16. Her favorite actors are Cate Blanchett, Marion Cotillard and Daniel Day-Lewis.
17. Attended and graduated from Fox Lane High School in Bedford, New York (2003).
18. Attended and graduated with a degree from New York University (2010).
19. Was in a long-term relationship with Charlie McDowell from 2010 to 2016.
20. She hated A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) and her performance in the horror remake.