Added 3 new gorgeous outtakes from Rooney’s Paper Magazine shoot from earlier this year, thanks once again to Dbiloo. I love this shoot, hope we keep getting outtakes!

003 x Photoshoots – 2010: Paper

Thanks once again to the awesome William, we’ve got a brand new, rare photoshoot Rooney did with “A Nightmare on Elm Street” co-star Kyle Gallner. If you have any more info on this photoshoot, especially which magazine it was published in, we would love to know! ETA: More added, thanks to Joy!

016 x Photoshoots – 2010: Unknown Photoshoot

Added a couple more never-before-seen Rooney photoshoots to the gallery: A photobooth session with co-star Emmy Rossum and director Adam Salky at the “Dare” premiere, and a new outtake from her 2009 Journal News shoot. Enjoy!

Will be updating public appearance albums we are missing next…

001 x Photoshoots – 2009: The Journal News

003 x Photoshoots – 2009: “Dare” Premiere Photobooth

Added some new outtakes from Rooney’s portrait session at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival, her 2010 Paper magazine shoot (a couple are similar but more wide) and her new headshot has been replaced with an HQ version. Thank you muchly to Dbiloo for some of these. Enjoy!!

001 x Photoshoots – Headshots (HQ Replacement)

003 x Photoshoots – 2010: Paper Magazine

004 x Photoshoots – 2009: Toronto Film Festival Portraits #5

Just found another outtake from Rooney’s shoot for Interview magazine last year. Sooooooo gorgeous. Might be feeling a new layout coming on! We shall see.

001 x Photoshoots – 2009: Interview Magazine

Just found these two gorgeous outtakes from Rooney’s 2009 photoshoot for Interview magazine. See them in the gallery below!

002 x Photoshoot – 2009: Interview Magazine

Rooney is featured in a new issue of Paper Magazine, and it includes a gorgeous new photoshoot picture.

After filming Tanner Hall, the debut film by writing/directing team Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini, actress Patricia “Tricia” Mara took on a new identity, dropping her first name to become Rooney Mara. “I never really liked my first name,” Mara says. (Rooney is her middle name.) “I never felt like a Tricia. And Rooney is more memorable.”

As Patricia growing up in the tony Westchester town of Bedford, Mara says she was a “loner” who shied away from team sports, even though in her family, football was everything. (Her great-grandfather Tim Mara founded the New York Giants.) “I was dragged to football games every week,” she says. “I just started liking it a few years ago, but I really hated it growing up.”

For a different, less all-American experience, after highschool Mara lived in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. From there, she headed to Kenya where she started a non-profit children”s relief charity called Faces of Kibera. “I needed to get out of the bubble of Westchester. I wanted to finish high school and experience other parts of the world before I tried acting.” Mara moved to Los Angeles two years ago, staying at first with her sister Kate Mara (also an actress). And since then, she”s been working non-stop. After she sexes up Tanner Hall as the precocious teen Fernanda, she”ll star in Youth in Revolt (with Michael Cera) and The Social Network, David Fincher”s buzzy Justin Timberlake-starring feature about the creators of Facebook. “In the movie I break up with Mark [Zuckerberg], which is the inspiration for him to start Facebook,” she explains. Good luck finding Mara on the social networking site. “I do have a Facebook account, but I very rarely use it,” she says. “I have my profile on private — so no one can find me.”

Here is yet another new phtooshoot out of Toronto, this time featuring Rooney with her “Tanner Hall” co-stars. Enjoy!

005 x Photoshoots – 2009: TIFF – “Tanner Hall” Portraits #6

A great new in-depth feature on Rooney has surfaced (including a new portrait picture, click thumbnail on left to see full size), and instead of focusing on her impressive rising film career, it goes into great detail on her other passion: her charity Faces of Kibera.

Important to highlight is the Faces of Kibera eBay auction currently taking place, which features tons of amazing one-of-a-kind sports and entertainment memorabilia, with all proceeds benefitting the charity.

A face of caring
By Chris Serico

Once reluctant to pursue the career that made her older sister, Kate Mara, a movie star, actress Rooney Mara never hesitated to follow a calling that often takes her 7,337 miles from her native Bedford.

In just her early 20s, Rooney Mara is the founder of a charity that benefits young orphans in Kibera, an African slum of about 1 million people living in 1 square mile of Nairobi, Kenya. And through Sunday, her online auction of sports- and entertainment-themed rarities will raise thousands more dollars to help build and support a facility on land she bought for Faces of Kibera.

”I went there, one of the last times I was there, in my pigtails, and bought 6 acres of land,“ she says with a wide smile. ”It was crazy.“

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Just found this new photoshoot Rooney did to promote “Tanner Hall” while in Toronto a couple of months ago. So cute! Enjoy!

002 x Photoshoot – 2009: TIFF “Tanner Hall” Portraits #5