Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix.Photo:VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty
Rooney Marais pregnant!
Representatives for Mara and Phoenix did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Rooney Mara attends the ‘La Cocina’ premiere on Feb. 16 in Berlin, Germany.Dominique Charriau/WireImage
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Mara and Phoenix, 49 — whoprivately got engagedin 2019 after first meeting in 2012 on the set of the sci-fi dramaHer —are already parents to sonRiver, who was born in 2020.
Their son’s name honors Phoenix’s older brother, who died at age 23 on Oct. 31, 1993, from an overdose. He starred in films includingStand By Me,Running on EmptyandMy Own Private Idaho.
Neither Mara nor Phoenix publicly acknowledged the pregnancy when the couple made rare red carpet appearances earlier that year, at theGolden Globes in January 2020andthe Oscars a month later.
Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix.Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Gregg DeGuire/Getty
Though Mara and Phoenix are very private about their relationship and role as parents, Mara did reveal that becoming a mother to River had “opened her heart” while celebrating her firstMother’s Dayin May 2021.
Years later, while appearing on theLaunchLeftpodcast, Mara spoke candidly about raising her son with Phoenix.
“It feels like a creative household, we’re constantly talking about creative things,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like a two-actor house because I didn’t work for the first three and a half years we were together. Basically, since we’ve been together, I only worked one or two times and one was really small and short.”
source: people.com
