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Rooney Mara, a two-time Academy Award nominee for her star flip in 2011’s The Woman With the Dragon Tattoo and her lead function in 2015’s Carol, has been tapped to play Audrey Hepburn in a forthcoming biopic.
Selection studies that Mara, 36, will even produce the Apple manufacturing. Luca Guadagnino, the Oscar-nominated director of Name Me by Your Title, will direct the movie and the script can be written by The Giver co-writer Michael Mitnick.
Depicting Hepburn can be no simple feat. The British actress and humanitarian is taken into account one of many all-time display legends, with iconic performances in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, My Truthful Girl, and Wait Till Darkish. She is one in all only a handful of individuals to win Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony awards.
Off-screen, she devoted a lot of her time to UNICEF tasks and was the topic of rabid gossip protection, notably after her affair with Bloodline co-star Ben Gazzara. She died of a uncommon type of belly most cancers in 1993, age 63.
Mara follows within the footsteps of Jennifer Love Hewitt and Emmy Rossum, who've performed Hepburn in different dramatizations of her life.
Selection studies that the plot particulars of the newest mission are beneath wraps. Guadagnino, an Italian director, has labored on the 2021 HBO miniseries We Are Who We Are and lately completed filming aromantic horror flick, Bones and All, starring Timothée Chalamet.