Rooney Mara W Magazine Photos

Getting into her dark, mysterious character, are the first pictures of Rooney Mara, who Salander has been released. The "social networking" star dons usually a sweet-and-innocent look, but the cover W she rocks the dark, tattooed, smoking style of her character in "The Girl with the dragon tattoo." Speaking of W on the role outrank formation, "said Rooney, " I did not even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and different, that hurt the most.”

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Patricia Rooney Mara, born 1985, is an American actress who will portray Salander, the main character in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first of three Sony Pictures film based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy book series. Mara oversees charities Faces of Kibera, which benefits orphans in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in Africa. She is the younger sister of actress Kate Mara.

Mara is the great grandson of Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. and the New York Giants founder Tim Mara. Her grandfather, Wellington Mara, the long-term owner of the Giants, followed by her uncle, John Mara. She is the grand-niece of Daniel Rooney, Chairman of the Steelers, the American ambassador to Norway, and co-founder of the Irish charity funds.

Mara made her professional debut in a supporting role in the 2005 direct-to-video horror film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary, who played her sister. Mara appeared in the film Dream Boy and friends for years, and guest-starred as Megan for two episodes of NBC's IS in 2009. Mara was at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October 2009 as part of its Breakthrough Artist Program, where she was taught along with Zach Gilford, Emmy Rossum and Emma Stone as Sharon Stone.

Kristen Stewart is not in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Apparently we won't see Kristen Stewart as Lisbeth Salander in the US version of Swedish film that is based on Stieg Larsson's crime novel "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". She was thinking to take that part, however mentioned , that she might have no time for that project.

There are several actresses on the list:
Emily Browning
Sophie Lowe
Sarah Snook
Rooney Mara
French actress (No details now)
It's interesting choice made by director of the movie David Fincher. Three of five actresses are Australian.

Amy Pascal (Sony) also named the most interesting detail:

The release date of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" is December 21, 2011.

The producer of the movie David Fincher also mentioned:
“We’re doing the book. That’s why we hired David Fincher. We’re going to really do this, in all their glory. Otherwise why do it? They’re very R-rated movies. It’s the shock of what’s really going on underneath the surface of society.

If you don’t actually make good on that, you haven’t told the story. I’m going to try to get these movies out as fast as possible. But, you know, we’ll have the first one next Christmas. And hopefully, the next two as quick as I can get them. We’re trying to figure that out now.”