Rooney Mara
Actor | Producer
Patricia Rooney Mara (born April 17, 1985) is an American film and television actress. Mara made her acting début in 2005 and has gone on to star in films including A Nightmare on Elm Street, the remake of the 1984 horror film, and The Social Network. Mara will portray Lisbeth Salander, the title character in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first of three Sony Pictures films based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium book series.
Mara is also known for her charity work. She oversees the charity Faces of Kibera, which benefits orphans from the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in Africa. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rooney Mara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
As: Annu
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix | Jonah Hill | Rooney Mara | Jack Black | Tony Greenhand
Mary Magdalene (2018)
As: Mary Magdalene
Set in the Holy Land in the first century C.E., a young woman leaves her small fishing village and traditional family behind to join a radical new social movement. At its head is a charismatic leader, Jesus of Nazareth, who promises that the world is changing. Mary is searching for a new way of living, and an authenticity that is denied her by the rigid hierarchies of the day. As the notoriety of the group ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Garth Davis
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Rooney Mara | Ryan Corr | Ariane Labed
A Ghost Story (2017)
As: M
Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: David Lowery
Stars: Casey Affleck | Rooney Mara | Will Oldham | Liz Franke | Sonia Acevedo
The Discovery (2017)
As: Isla
In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Charlie McDowell
Stars: Jesse Plemons | Robert Redford | Riley Keough | Rooney Mara | Jason Segel
Song to Song (2017)
As: Faye
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Natalie Portman | Rooney Mara | Michael Fassbender | Ryan Gosling
Una (2016)
As: Una Spencer
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Benedict Andrews
Stars: Ben Mendelsohn | Rooney Mara | Tara Fitzgerald | Riz Ahmed | Indira Varma
Lion (2016)
As: Lucy
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Garth Davis
Stars: David Wenham | Nicole Kidman | Dev Patel | Rooney Mara | Sunny Pawar
The Secret Scripture (2016)
As: Young Roseanne McNulty
The hidden memoir of an elderly woman confined to a mental hospital reveals the history of her passionate yet tortured life, and of the religious and political upheavals in Ireland during the 1920s and 30s.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Jim Sheridan
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Rooney Mara | Theo James | Eric Bana | Jack Reynor
Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
As: The Sisters (voice)
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Travis Knight
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Rooney Mara | Charlize Theron | Matthew McConaughey | Art Parkinson
Carol (2015)
As: Therese Belivet
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Todd Haynes
Stars: Cate Blanchett | Kyle Chandler | Rooney Mara | Sarah Paulson | Jake Lacy
Pan (2015)
As: Tiger Lily
Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits as he meets new friend James Hook and the warrior Tiger Lily. They must band together to save Neverland from the ruthless pirate Blackbeard. Along the way, the rebellious and mischievous boy discovers his true destiny, becoming the hero forever known ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Joe Wright
Stars: Garrett Hedlund | Rooney Mara | Amanda Seyfried | Hugh Jackman | Levi Miller
Trash (2014)
As: Olivia
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Selton Mello | Rooney Mara | Rickson Tevez | Eduardo Luis | Gabriel Weinstein
Her (2013)
As: Catherine Klausen
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Spike Jonze
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix | Olivia Wilde | Amy Adams | Rooney Mara | Scarlett Johansson
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
As: Ruth Guthrie
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.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: David Lowery
Stars: Keith Carradine | Casey Affleck | Rooney Mara | Rami Malek | Ben Foster
Side Effects (2013)
As: Emily Taylor
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Catherine Zeta-Jones | Jude Law | Rooney Mara | Vinessa Shaw | Channing Tatum
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
As: Lisbeth Salander
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they ...
Runtime: 158 min.
Directed by: David Fincher
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård | Rooney Mara | Christopher Plummer | Daniel Craig | Goran Visnjic
Touch of Evil (2011)
As: The Sociopath
Some of 2011's stand-out film actors appear in "a video gallery of cinematic villainy" for New York Times Magazine.
Runtime: 12 min.
Directed by: Alex Prager
Stars: Brad Pitt | Gary Oldman | Mia Wasikowska | Rooney Mara | Ryan Gosling
How Did They Ever Make a Movie of Facebook? (2011)
As: Herself/Erica Albright
This feature-length documentary about the making of "The Social Network" goes back and forth from the elements of storytelling and long rehearsals with the cast and crew, to the shooting itself capturing the extreme attention to detail, filming locations such as Boston and LA, and David Fincher's filmmaking process.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: David Prior
Stars: David Fincher | Andrew Garfield | Jesse Eisenberg | Rooney Mara | Aaron Sorkin
The Social Network (2010)
As: Erica Albright
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: David Fincher
Stars: Andrew Garfield | Jesse Eisenberg | Armie Hammer | Max Minghella | Justin Timberlake
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
As: Nancy Holbrook
The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl a group of teenagers being stalked soon learn they all have a common factor making them targets for this twisted killer.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Samuel Bayer
Stars: Jackie Earle Haley | Kellan Lutz | Rooney Mara | Kyle Gallner | Katie Cassidy
Dare (2009)
As: Courtney
Three high school seniors - an aspiring actress, her misfit best friend, and a loner - become engaged in an intimate and complicated relationship.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Adam Salky
Stars: Zach Gilford | Rooney Mara | Emmy Rossum | Ashley Springer | Ana Gasteyer
Tanner Hall (2009)
As: Fernanda
A manipulative childhood acquaintance worms her way into a teenager's circle of friends at an all-girls boarding school.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Francesca Gregorini | Tatiana von Furstenberg
Stars: Brie Larson | Rooney Mara | Amy Ferguson | Tom Everett Scott | Georgia King
Youth in Revolt (2009)
As: Taggarty
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's love at first sight for frustrated and inexperienced Nick. Learning that she is dating someone, Nick launches a hilarious quest to find his way into Sheeni's heart ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Miguel Arteta
Stars: Zach Galifianakis | Steve Buscemi | Michael Cera | Ray Liotta | Justin Long
Friends (With Benefits) (2009)
As: Tara
Meet Chloe and Owen: best buds since their sandbox days. Now, in med school as they attempt to balance the weight of their studies, his job, her band, their parents, their friends (their sanity), they find little time for relationships...but lots of time for the desire. One fateful day, a brave Owen proposes the "perfect" solution: Friends (read: no messy relationship stuff)...with benefits (read: insanely ...
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Gorman Bechard
Stars: Margaret Laney | Alex Brown | Anne Petersen | Jake Alexander | Brendan Bradley
The Winning Season (2009)
As: Wendy
A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Jim Strouse
Stars: Emily Rios | Emma Roberts | Shareeka Epps | Sam Rockwell | Rooney Mara
Dream Boy (2008)
As: Evelyn
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: James Bolton
Stars: Stephan Bender | Thomas Jay Ryan | Diana Scarwid | Owen Beckman | Maximillian Roeg
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
As: Classroom girl #1
On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Mary Lambert
Stars: Tina Lifford | Kate Mara | Ed Marinaro | Robert Vito | Michael Coe
A House in the Sky ()
As: Amanda Lindhout
Based on the memoir of the same name, A House in the Sky tells the story of Amanda Lindhout, whose deep passion for exploration of the world's most remote and perilous places, took an unexpected turn when she was abducted in 2008 in Mogadishu, Somalia by a rebel terrorist group
Directed by: Garth Davis
Stars: Rooney Mara