American actress Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will play Audrey Hepburn in a new biopic about the British movie star, which will be produced by Apple Studios.

The project will be directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name).

The script for the film will be written by Michael Mitnick (Vinyl).

It is also known that Rooney Mara will become the producer of the biopic about Hepburn, and in such a role the actress will act for the third time.

Previously, she produced the films "Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes", and together with her husband Joaquin Phoenix took on the documentary "The End of Medicine".

Information about which period of Audrey Hepburn's life will be devoted to the picture, and other details have not yet been disclosed.

Rooney Mara was nominated twice for an Oscar: in 2012 for her role in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in 2016 for her work in Carol with Cate Blanchett.

Luca Guadagnino was also nominated for an Academy Award in 2018 for Call Me by Your Name (the film received a statuette in the Best Adapted Screenplay category).

This is not the first film about Audrey Hepburn.

In 1993, as part of the Hollywood Collection program, the documentary Remembering Audrey Hepburn was released.

The tape appeared after the death of the actress in January 1993.

The film was directed and written by Jean Feldman and Suzette Winter.

The Audrey Hepburn Story was released in 2000.

Jennifer Love Hewitt played the main role in the film, she also acted as one of the producers of the film.

The Story was directed by Stephen Robman.

The film covers the period from the early childhood of a movie star to the 1960s.

Viewers are introduced to the details of the life of a British movie star - her life in the Netherlands, her parents' divorce, the emotional difficulties that the actress faced when she moved to the United States.

Another documentary about the actress was Audrey, which premiered at the end of 2020. Helena Coan was involved in the creation of the picture, she was helped by the son of the movie star Sean Hepburn Ferrer - he told about the difficult childhood of his mother. The script for the documentary was based on the role of Hepburn in "Funny Face" in 1957, in which the artist played a bookstore saleswoman. The film also stars former Givenchy creative director Claire Waite Keller (who spoke about Hepburn's contributions to the fashion industry) and design director at Tiffany & Co. John Loring (told about the history of the movie star's relationship with the famous jewelry brand).

In the spring of 2021, it became known that the Italian company Wildside (one of the producers of "Young Dad") will create a biographical series about Hepburn.

The project will cover the period of the creative formation of the actress, and also touch on the theme of Hepburn's influence on fashion and cinema.

Another son of the actress, Luca Dotti, is working on the series.

Together with the journalist Luigi Spinola, they became the authors of the project idea.

Jacqueline Hoyt is in charge of the script.

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Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in Brussels, belonged to an aristocratic family - her mother was a Baroness. Hepburn spent part of her childhood in the Netherlands occupied by the Germans. During the Second World War, the future actress was starving, which affected her health: Hepburn fell ill with anemia, she had respiratory problems and swelling. The artist began her career as a dancer, studying ballet in the Dutch city of Arnhem. At that time, Hepburn planned to connect her life with dancing.

In 1945 she graduated from the conservatory.

Her first major work in the cinema was the film "Secret People", in which the actress came in handy for dancing (she played a ballet dancer).

The actress received her first Oscar in 1954 for Best Actress in the film Roman Holiday.

One of the most popular films with Hepburn's participation is considered to be the melodrama Breakfast at Tiffany's.

The composition Moon River, written for him, became a hit, and the tape won two Oscars for the best music and song.

In the last years of her life, Hepburn did not act much in films, since she devoted most of her time to work at UNICEF.

The last work of the actress in the cinema was the role in the film "Always".

Audrey Hepburn died on January 20, 1993 in Switzerland from cancer.

She was 63 years old.