Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I mahi tuatahi a Rooney i roto i te vaudeville hei kaiwhakaari tamariki, ana i tiimata tana kiriata i te 6 o ona tau. I takaro ia i te taitara taitara i roto i te raupapa rongonui "Mickey McGuire" o nga kiriata poto 78, mai i te 7 ki te 13 tau. I te 14 me te 15, i takaro ia i a Puck i roto i te whakaari me te kiriata i muri mai o "A Midsummer Night's Dream". I te 16 o ona tau ka tiimata ia ki te takaro i a Andy Hardy, ana i te 17 o ona tau ka mohio ia ki a Whitey Marsh i "Boys Town". I te 19 noa iho o ona tau, ko Mickey Rooney te tuarua o nga taiohi i whakaingoatia mo te Kaitito Pai rawa atu i roto i te Kaitito Kaitito me te taiohi tuatahi i whakaingoatia mo te Academy Award mo tana mahi hei Mickey Moran i te 1939 kiriata whakaari o te whakatutukitanga o te Broadway waiata "Babes in Arms"; i whakawhiwhia ia ki te Academy Juvenile Award motuhake i te
I te tau 1939. I whakawhiwhia a Rooney ki tana tohu tuarua mo te Academy Award i roto i te waahanga ano mo tana mahi hei Homer Macauley i roto i te "The Human Comedy". I te 23, ko ia ano te tuatoru o nga kaitono taiohi i roto i taua waahanga i mua i tana whiwhinga ki a Timothée Chalamet 22-tau-tau mo tana mahi hei Elio Perlman i roto i te kiriata whakaari whakaari whakaari whakaari "Whakaea mai i to Ingoa", i te 2017, 74 tau i muri mai.