Rooney Mara

Rooney Mara is one of those actors who makes stillness feel dangerous, and I mean that as the highest possible compliment. She grew up in Bedford, New York — NFL royalty on both sides of her family — and then quietly went off to NYU and became one of the most unsettling screen presences of her generation. Her transformation for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was genuinely shocking, not just the look but the coiled intensity she brought to Lisbeth Salander. Then she pivots to Carol and gives you this aching, restrained longing that earned her a Cannes Best Actress award and an Oscar nomination in the same breath. She doesn't do press tours, doesn't flood your timeline, just shows up in a role and takes the whole film with her. That kind of quiet confidence is rare, and I'm always glad when she chooses a project.

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Name (English)

Rooney Mara

Name (Japanese)

ルーニー・マーラ

Reading

るーにー・まーら

Born

April 17, 1985 (age 41)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Ox

Origin

Bedford, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / voice actor / fashion designer

High school

Fox Lane High School

University

New York University

Awards & achievements

• Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooney%20Mara
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q228766

Tags

• New York
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.