Rooney Mara set to play Audrey Hepburn in new biopic

Rooney Mara is ready to play Audrey Hepburn in a brand new biopic of the Breakfast at Tiffany’s actor. The movie shall be directed by Luca Guadagnino, the Italian director greatest identified for the Oscar-nominated Name Me By Your Identify, in addition to for A Greater Splash and his remake of Suspiria.

It will likely be written by Michael Mitnick, who collaborated with Guadagnino on 2019 brief The Staggering Lady, and who additionally has a biopic about Jim Henson in manufacturing.

Hepburn’s elegant performances in movies resembling Roman Vacation, Sabrina and My Honest Girl, coupled along with her iconic picture, have meant she has remained within the public consciousness for nearly 30 years since her loss of life in 1993, aged 63.

Born in 1929 to a Dutch baroness and a British diplomat, she spent a lot of her adolescence underneath Nazi occupation within the Netherlands underneath an assumed Dutch title, petrified of showing English. Nonetheless, she additionally carried out in dance recitals to fundraise for the resistance and transferred messages in her ballet footwear.

After coaching as a dancer, she was noticed in 1950 on a seaside in Monaco by the French creator Colette, who solid her because the lead within the Broadway switch of her novella Gigi.

Two years later, Hepburn gained an Oscar, a Bafta and a Golden Globe for Roman Vacation, starting a remarkably profitable display profession – from which she largely retired 14 years later, to lift her household and work for Unicef.

Mara, 36, was Oscar-nominated for her position in Todd Haynes’s romance Carol, and in addition starred in David Fincher’s remake of The Lady With the Dragon Tattoo, Lion, Her and Mary Magdalene.

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