I’ve added new high quality candids photos of Rooney Mara and her boyfriend, Charlie McDowell at Starbucks and then went shopping at the clothing store Anthropologie in Beverly Hills, California on February 17, 2012.

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• (x033) Candids in 2012: In Beverly Hills with Charlie – February 17

I’ve added new high quality candids of Rooney Mara arriving at LAX Airport on February 17, 2012.

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• (x010) Candids in 2012: Arriving at LAX Airport – February 17

I’ve added new candids of Rooney Mara out in NYC on February 16, 2012. Rooney has previously attended an event at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week show.

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• (x003) Candids in 2012: In New York City – February 16

I have uploaded new event photos of Rooney Mara and Emma Stone attends the Calvin Klein Collection Fall 2012 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week on February 16, 2012 in New York City.

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• (x008) Events in 2012: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Calvin Klein Fall 2012 Collection – Audience
• (x008) Events in 2012: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Calvin Klein Fall 2012 Collection – Backstage

Lisbeth Salander, misanthropic Watson to Mikael Blomkvist’s investigative journalist Sherlock Holmes in Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, is by nature a rule-breaker. Look no further than her day job as a hacker; a means of assaulting the society that scarred her. To get Lisbeth to jump off the page, it required an actress with both an adolescent punkish attitude as well as a glacial resilience. Furthermore, like Noomi Rapace who originated the part in the original Swedish trilogy, the role required a starlet whose image wouldn’t cloud moviegoers’ perception of the character’s unorthodoxy (reasons why such Salander candidates as Natalie Portman or Scarlett Johansson were passed over for Sony’s Stateside remake). Director David Fincher’s expectations were smashed by Rooney Mara, the straight-laced girl he cast to reject Jesse Eisenberg’s Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network. Through a half-dozen screen tests Mara proved her worth to Fincher and eventually bowled over Sony’s reticence. Mara certainly has gotten the town’s attention, landing a role in Terrence Malick’s upcoming Lawless as well as best actress Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for the role. AwardsLine’s Anthony D’Alessandro interviewed Mara.

AWARDSLINE: Did you know someone like Lisbeth Salander growing up?
MARA: No, I don’t think anyone does. That’s what’s great about her: She’s unlike anyone you’ve seen or read about before.

AWARDSLINE: When you started auditioning for David Fincher, did you have the Swedish accent under control?
MARA: He asked for the actresses to do a Swedish accent for the audition. It’s a really hard dialect to figure out and there aren’t a lot of people who specialize in it here in Los Angeles. There’s no such thing as a Swedish accent. Everyone sounds completely different. Some sound British or American. People from the North sound different from the people in the south. When I was auditioning the accent wasn’t as perfected as it sounds in the movie.

AWARDSLINE: Any idea what it was that made David Fincher decide you were the one to play Lisbeth?
MARA: I don’t know. Initially he didn’t want to see me. I had just finishedSocial Network and I was something completely different in that. I am all the things in that movie that Salander was not. So it was hard for him to wrap his head around the notion that I could be this other girl. I think when he saw me the first time [for Lisbeth], it dawned on him that I could be. I’m not sure what it is he saw in me that made him know that I could be the girl. I think he was trying to find someone who at their core had a lot in common with this girl. • Read full story »

Thanks to Luisa for sending the videos in!

I’ve added 2 new high quality photoshoot of Rooney Mara for “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences” present “Out of Character,” a new exhibition featuring portraits of this year’s acting nominees by photographer Douglas Kirkland. The exclusive new photos of 2011′s Oscar-nominated performers will be on display starting Saturday, February 11 , in the Academy’s Grand Lobby Gallery in Beverly Hills.

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• (x002) Photoshoots in 2012: Douglas Kirkland

I’ve added new screen captures of Rooney Mara did for “TIME” Oscar 2012: Great Performance special to the gallery.

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• (x056) Interviews: 2012 TIME Oscar Q &A

I’ve added new photoshoots of Rooney Mara taken for “TIME” Oscars 2012: Great Performances.

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• (x001) Photoshoots in 2012: S. Kim [Time]