Meet Rooney Mara. She is an American actress who is currently starring in the horror flick ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’. Get details on Rooney Mara here!
Actress Rooney Mara has just wrapped up work on the set of A Nightmare on Elm Street in the lead role as Nancy Thompson. Mara’s character is described as “an anti-social goth chick”.
A Nightmare on Elm Street was directed by Samuel Bayer and is due out on the 30th of April 2010.
“We are going to debut a new character into the Nightmare mythos. He is going to go by the name of ‘Freddy Krueger’ and he will have a glove with sharp metal appendages. He is going to haunt the dreams of the children whose parents killed him. It’s going to be really spooky,” stated Shannon Spogel of Platinum Dunes studios.
As a biography Rooney Mara was born in 1985 and is a New York native. Mara is the youngest sister of Kate Mara. To date Rooney Mara has appeared in both TV and on the big screen. Rooney’s movie credits include Tanner Hall as Fernanda, the Winning Season as Wendy and the 2009 movie Dare.
The American actress has made TV appearances in The Cleaner on A&E, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and ER. Rooney Mara just finished filming Friends With Benefits in the role of Tara.
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