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Margot Rooker

Margot Rooker is an American celebrity wife. Margot Rooker is popular as the wife of a prominent American actor – Michael Rooker.

Early life and Childhood

Margot Rooker’s exact date of birth, her exact age, and birthplace is not clearly mentioned on the web. There is also no information regarding her exact birthplace and zodiac sign either.

Talking about her family, there is information that she grew up in a small village near New Jersey. Although their identities are not revealed, there is information that her father was a farmer whereas her mother was a housewife.

Regarding insights into her educational journey, she went to a local high school near her hometown. Later, she received a scholarship and hence graduated from Harvard University.

Similarly, she was interested in playing basketball and volleyball since very young.

She was on her college basketball team and she also loved singing, dancing, and acting. Moreover, she used to do a lot of acting in theater plays and she was also a talented speaker.

Hence, she represented her college in the inter-college debate competition.

Furthermore, she loved watching romantic and thriller movies and her favorite actors are Tom Hanks and Al Pacino. she also loved listening to Piano music, especially Mozart.

Mrs. Rooker also loved cooking and express her culinary taste.

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Caption: Margot Rooker’s family attending the screening after party for Marvel Studios’ ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ at The Skylark on 3 May 2017 in NYC. Source: Getty

Relationship Status

Margot Rooker’s husband is Michael Rooker. He is a prominent American actor.

The lovers tied the knot on June 22, 1979, and they have two children together. They are Alynne Rooker and Gillian Rooker.

Alynne also followed her dad and is an actress as well as a director in Hollywood.

She and Michael met each other through mutual friends at a marriage party. Michael was still a struggling actor back then.

The lovers soon started dating each other and then got engaged. A few months later, the lovers married each other.

She and Michael have been married for almost 42 years now and are living happily together since then.

Moreover, she is often seen with her husband at many Hollywood parties and award functions. she also frequently uploads her family pictures on social media.

The celebrity wife loves to travel around the world. She is also involved in a number of charity and social works.

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Caption: Margot Rooker’s husband captured with their grandchild. Source: Pinterest

Career and Professional Life

Margot Rooker is most popular as the celebrity wife of Michael Rooker. Her husband is a prominent American actor.

Besides this, she worked at a local restaurant soon after completing her college graduation. Following her excellence at her job as a head chef, she got married to Michael Rooker.

After this, she left her job and put her complete focus on family life.

Talking more about her husband’s professionally, Michael Rooker gained fame for portraying various roles throughout his acting career.

Michael played the role of Henry in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in 1986; as Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out in 1988, and as Terry Cruger in Sea of Love in the year 1989.

Her husband also played the role of Rowdy Burns in Days of Thunder; Bill Broussard in JFK; Hal Tucker in Cliffhanger; Jared Svenning in Mallrats; Detective Howard Cheney in The Bone Collector; as Grant Grant in Slither; Merle Dixon in AMC’s The Walking Dead, and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. 

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Caption: Margot’s husband and Gillian Anderson pose for a photo. Source: Doodle 4 NF

Margot’s Husband: Initial Professional Acting Career

Furthermore, Margot’s husband made his film debut in the year 1986. It was in the role of the title character in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

This film is based on the confessions of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. Her husband was acting in a play when the play’s director told him about the role.

The play’s director was actually going to do the prosthetics for Henry.

Back then, Michael Rooker didn’t care if the script was good or bad. The actor just wanted to act in a film as it would “challenge” him.

This was a critical success and people subsequently noticed Michael Rooker in the filmmaking industry. This led to many more film roles for her husband.

Moreover, her husband was given more dramatic roles in films including Eight Men Out, Mississippi Burning, and JFK. However, Michael is widely recognized for his roles in action and thriller films like Sea of Love, Days of Thunder, Cliffhanger, and Tombstone among others.

Her husband also starred in Mallrats, Rosewood, The 6th Day, Slither, Jumper, Super, Hypothermia, and many more.

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Caption: Margot Rooker’s husband captured in a movie scene. Source: Michael Rooker Online

More Details

In June 2010, her husband revealed via Twitter that he would appear in the AMC television series The Walking Dead. He also revealed that he would play the role of Merle Dixon.

Marle is one of the survivors of a zombie apocalypse. Her husband also guest-starred in two episodes of the first season and one of the second season. It was before finally becoming a series regular for the third season.

Furthermore, her celebrity husband is also famous for his roles in video games like Call of Duty: Black Ops, Mike Harper in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 in November 2012, and voiced Merle in The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct.

It is a video game based on a TV series.

Additionally, Michael Rooker also played the character Yondu in the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy. James Gunn directed this film.

Michael again reprised his role as Yondu in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in the year 2017. Then in August 2019, her husband joined the cast of the upcoming 2021 action film F9. Justin Lin is the director of this film.

Margot Rooker – Body Measurements

There is no information regarding Margot Rooker’s body measurement details like her height, weight, chest-waist-hip measures, dress size, shoe size, etc.

Margot Rooker – Social Media

Further, it seems like she is not available on any social media platforms including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc.