Rooney Mara

Patricia Rooney Mara (born 1985) is an American actress. Her films in 2009 include Dare, and the upcoming Tanner Hall. In 2010, she appeared in Youth in Revolt and The Winning Season, and starred in A Nightmare on Elm Street, a remake of the 1984 horror film.

Mara will next be seen in The Social Network, a film by David Fincher about the founding of Facebook. She has also been cast as Lisbeth Salander, the lead in Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first of three Sony Pictures films based on Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy book series.

Mara oversees the charity Faces of Kibera, which benefits orphans from the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the largest slums in Africa. She is the younger sister of actress Kate Mara.