Rooney Mara tapped to play Audrey Hepburn in biopic from director of Call Me By Your Name

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Rooney Mara has been tapped to play Audrey Hepburn in a biopic from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino.In addition to leading the cast of the movie Rooney, 36, will also be serving as a producer, according to a report in Deadline.Known for her immaculately glamorous persona and tender performances, Audrey entranced audiences in such movies as Breakfast At Tiffany's and Roman Holiday.

Incoming:Rooney Mara (right) has been tapped to play Audrey Hepburn (left) in a biopic from Call Me By Your Name director Luca GuadagninoShe was born in 1929 to a Dutch baroness and a British diplomat, a background that instilled in her the elegance and refinement that became her signature.However her childhood was scarred by the Second World War, which she spent under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands using an assumed Dutch name on account of the potential threat posed by appearing English. 'Had we known the first six months of the war that we were going to be occupied for five years, we might all have shot ourselves,' she said in archival footage included in the Netflix documentary Audrey. 'We thought it would be over next week.'Audrey, who performed dance concerts to fundraise for the Dutch resistance and transferred messages in her shoes, recalled: 'My uncles were taken from their homes and shot.

One brother was sent to Germany. The other one was always hidden.' Icon:Known for her immaculately glamorous persona and tender performances, Audrey entranced audiences in such movies as Breakfast At Tiffany's (pictured)She added: 'My uncles were the first hostages to be shot in Holland, and it was actually a turning point, because from that day on an underground was formed.'Her fascist father walked out on the family when she was.