Here is yet another new phtooshoot out of Toronto, this time featuring Rooney with her “Tanner Hall” co-stars. Enjoy!

005 x Photoshoots – 2009: TIFF – “Tanner Hall” Portraits #6

The new movie about the founders of Facebook starring Rooney Mara, Justin Timberlake, Jesse Einsenberg and more will be released on October 15, 2010. What a great year 2010 is shaping up to be for Rooney!

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Rooney attended the Los Angeles premiere of her new movie “Youth in Revolt” last night, looking beautiful and different from her usual self! She attended with her “Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Kaboom” co-star Thomas Dekker. Over 30 images, HQ and MQ, are now available in the gallery for your viewing pleasure. EDIT: More images added!

054 x Public Appearances – 01.06.10: “Youth in Revolt” Los Angeles Premiere

Check out this new Behind the Scenes video from the set of “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, which came with the DVD release of “Final Destination.” You can see some brief new scenes of Rooney. Watch it below now, and stay tuned for some nice DVD captures.

Looks like Rooney and the cast are headed back to set to film new scenes for “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, according to Spoiler TV, who posted this new casting call:

Nightmare on Elm St – New Casting Call for Minor Characters

[WAITRESS] 40s. She works at the diner with NANCY. She started working at the diner as a summer job 20 years ago and never left. PLEASE SUBMIT CHARACTER ACTORS WITH GREAT FACES (Two lines)

[DUTCH] 50s. The owner of a small-town American diner at which NANCY works. PLEASE SUBMIT CHARACTER ACTORS WITH GREAT WEATHERED FACES. (One line)

[TEENAGE GUY] Eating at the diner with JESSE, QUENTIN and a FRIEND, he tells QUENTIN that asking NANCY about the diner specials doesn’t count as talking to her. Please keep in mind that they must be playing high school age. Please submit all character types – from cool to charactery. (One line)

[FRIEND] Eating at the diner with JESSE, QUENTIN, and TEENAGE GUY, he asks what the point would be of getting to know someone when they all graduate in a few months anyway. Please keep in mind that they must be playing high school age. Please submit all character types – from cool to charactery. (One line)

A great new in-depth feature on Rooney has surfaced (including a new portrait picture, click thumbnail on left to see full size), and instead of focusing on her impressive rising film career, it goes into great detail on her other passion: her charity Faces of Kibera.

Important to highlight is the Faces of Kibera eBay auction currently taking place, which features tons of amazing one-of-a-kind sports and entertainment memorabilia, with all proceeds benefitting the charity.

A face of caring
By Chris Serico

Once reluctant to pursue the career that made her older sister, Kate Mara, a movie star, actress Rooney Mara never hesitated to follow a calling that often takes her 7,337 miles from her native Bedford.

In just her early 20s, Rooney Mara is the founder of a charity that benefits young orphans in Kibera, an African slum of about 1 million people living in 1 square mile of Nairobi, Kenya. And through Sunday, her online auction of sports- and entertainment-themed rarities will raise thousands more dollars to help build and support a facility on land she bought for Faces of Kibera.

”I went there, one of the last times I was there, in my pigtails, and bought 6 acres of land,“ she says with a wide smile. ”It was crazy.“

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Just found this new photoshoot Rooney did to promote “Tanner Hall” while in Toronto a couple of months ago. So cute! Enjoy!

002 x Photoshoot – 2009: TIFF “Tanner Hall” Portraits #5

Rooney, along with her “Tanner Hall” co-stars Amy Ferguson and Georgia King, made the Toronto Star’s list of standout “fresh faces” at the annual Toronto International Film Festival. Along with a glowing review of Rooney’s performance, a new portrait image of the 3 was featured, which you can view in our gallery now.

Fresh faces at TIFF
Which new stars made a claim on fame at the film festival this year? Here are our picks

Amy Ferguson, Georgia King, Rooney Mara

First-time directors Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini have assembled a cast of outstanding young actresses for their film Tanner Hall, a drama set in a girls’ boarding school in northern New England. All in their early 20s (and coy about giving their ages), Americans Amy Ferguson and Rooney Mara and Scottish-born Georgia King are solid and believable as three teens on the verge of womanhood facing tough decisions and hard learning lessons about consequences.

These are the first leading roles for this trio of young actresses (the fourth star, Brie Larson, wasn’t at TIFF), although they have screen credits ranging from TV to theatre and small movies. During an interview with the Star, the actresses said they hope the as-yet-unsold Tanner Hall will find a waiting audience of young women who often feel overlooked by Hollywood’s desire to cater to teen boys. King’s first screen role was as Lady Teazle in The Duchess – which was at TIFF last year – starring alongside Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes. In Tanner Hall she’s the bad seed, a new girl who sets out to manipulate and destroy others. King balances a credible portrayal of evil with vulnerability.

Rooney Mara, younger sister of actress Kate (TIFF closer last year, The Stone of Destiny), has the most challenging role, taking on the part of wise yet unworldly Fernanda, who finds herself drawn into an affair with an older family friend (Tom Everett Scott). Her portrayal of a girl’s torment over her actions and rising panic about her choices is credible and note perfect.

Mara has the lead in director Samuel Bayer’s re-imagining of A Nightmare on Elm Street, due next year. She also appeared alongside Michael Cera in another TIFF film, Youth in Revolt. As Lucasta, a scholarship student who seems unaware – or unwilling to acknowledge – that she is questioning her sexual identity, Amy Ferguson takes on her first major role.