How much is Rooney Mara worth?
| Net Worth: | $12 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | April 17, 1985 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.6 m |
About Rooney Mara
Rooney Mara has achieved a lot for a starlet who entered the industry as an afterthought, going from relative unknown to a supporting role in the 2011 Golden Globes’ Best Drama. Rooney is now edging out some of Hollywood’s greatest names for major parts, and she’s quickly becoming our newest it girl.
You’ve seen her in The Social Network as the unfulfilled love interest of Jesse Eisenberg, and more recently in the gritty Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
The entire family
A Bedford, New York, native Rooney is the progeny of legendary figures in a different sector of the economy—sports. The sports teams the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers were founded by her great-grandfathers Tim Mara and Art Rooney, respectively.
Her father, Timothy, the vice president of Giants player evaluation, inherited the rabid sports iconoclasm from his family. Rooney was uninterested in professional sports as a child despite her family’s close ties to the industry. She was more drawn to theater and inspired by the acting career of her older sister, Kate Mara.
Despite her curiosity, she chose to seek other options due to her fear of failing. Rooney spent months touring the world after high school before enrolling at NYU to study psychology and global social policy.
The astute girl, however, couldn’t shake the acting bug, and before fully committing to a career in acting, she began to tentatively appear in student films.
Alongside her older sister, Rooney made her acting debut in the 2005 horror film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, which was released exclusively on DVD.
She then went on to feature on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2006), The Cleaner (2008), and ER (2009), playing a variety of challenging parts, such as a teen mom who abandons her infant at a hospital and a piano-playing heroin addict.
The Girl With The Stamp Of Approval
After developing a sizable television resume, Rooney returned to the big screen in 2009 when she scored a part in Michael Cera’s smash Youth in Revolt. The following year, she appeared in the independent film Tanner Hall and the horror picture A Nightmare on Elm Street.
But when she was cast in The Social Network, the 2011 Golden Globes winner for Best Drama, her career catapulted from supporting roles in ensemble films and minor parts to a megawatt success.
She portrayed Mark Zuckerberg‘s ex-girlfriend in the movie, who dumped him and gave birth to the concept that would become Facebook.
Rooney undoubtedly made an impression on David Fincher, the filmmaker of The Social Network. In the American version of the Swedish blockbuster The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, he chose her to play the lead role opposite Daniel Craig.
Rooney won the role of the troubled hacker Lisbeth Salander in the trilogy based on the bestselling books, defeating other young stars including Carey Mulligan and Ellen Page.
We have no doubt that this motivated actress will get her name on every director’s short list after winning a one-on-one battle for the silver screen.
“I just want to keep doing what I’m doing, which is a bunch of different things.”
