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Related: About this forumRooney Mara---Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Football Goddess?
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You probably know Rooney Mara as the star of the soon-to-be-released The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo movie, in which she plays the lead role of pierced punk/hardcore hacker Lisbeth Salander. A serious force to be reckoned with, even if you are James Bond (Daniel Craig).
But she's also the great-granddaughter of Tim Mara and Art Rooney, Senior. Mara founded the New York Giants. Rooney founded the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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The story goes like this: Art Rooney (again, Rooney Mara's maternal great-grandfather) founded the Steelers in 1933. He named his son Tim Rooney in honor of Rooney Mara's paternal great-grandfather, Tim Mara (founder of the NY Giants). Then, a generation later, Chris and Kathleen Mara named their baby daughter Patricia Rooney Mara -- who eventually dropped the "Patricia" to become simply Rooney Mara. Who's now starring in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Tada!
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ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)not "Goddess". Goddess is the girl that lines up on the O-line against the boys in my son's district.
trumad
(41,692 posts)I know she played a character... But she sure sold me as one tough as Dame.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Her lineage makes it a sports story.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)so, somewhere back when someone was into football. got it.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Sorry to offend you.
Ugg...no double fucking ugg.
Now you got me started.
Upton
(9,709 posts)LisaM
(27,806 posts)Perhaps if the rest of you kept up with Harper's Bazaar, you would have known of her football lineage way back in the spring.
trumad
(41,692 posts)I watched a Letterman interview with her.
A real pretty lady.
Upton
(9,709 posts)and her lineage is interesting, but I looked up some of her images and referring to her as a "goddess" might be a bit much....
MaineDem
(18,161 posts)I'm anxious to see the movie (LOVED the book) but football...meh!
She said they'd get all dressed up to go to church on Sundays and then go to the Giants game. They were the only kids there in their Sunday best.
trumad
(41,692 posts)said she'd sit there all itchy.
Beautiful lady.
tclambert
(11,085 posts)A big dragon covering almost her whole back that looked like it was ripping its way out through her flesh. See, she was a dragon trapped in a girl's body, but the dragon was determined to come out. That's how tough Lisbeth Salander is.