The official site for “A Nightmare on Elm Street” has been updated to include two new stills of Rooney as Nancy. View them in the gallery below.

002 x Movie Images – A Nightmare on Elm Street: Promotional Stills

As promised, here are a bunch of caps of Rooney in the new “A Nightmare on Elm Street” trailer, in glorious HD 1080p. There were some really quick flashes in the middle but I think I caught them all. Enjoy!

088 x Movie Images – A Nightmare on Elm Street: Trailer #2 [HD] Captures

As we reported earlier, a couple of new TV Spots for “A Nightmare on Elm Street” would debut with the Olympics, and here they are! They only feature brief new glimpses of Rooney, but the full theatrical trailer releasing tonight should have plenty more of her (we hope anyway). TV Spots and captures are below.

013 x Movie Images – A Nightmare on Elm Street: TV Spots Captures

What a great day for “Nightmare on Elm Street” stuff! We’ve just got our hands on the very first official still of Rooney as Nancy with Kyle Gallner as Quentin in a bloody scene from the movie. Hopefully there’s lots more goodies headed our way!

001 x Movie Images – A Nightmare on Elm Street – Promotional Stills

Rooney is featured in a new issue of Paper Magazine, and it includes a gorgeous new photoshoot picture.

After filming Tanner Hall, the debut film by writing/directing team Tatiana von Furstenberg and Francesca Gregorini, actress Patricia “Tricia” Mara took on a new identity, dropping her first name to become Rooney Mara. “I never really liked my first name,” Mara says. (Rooney is her middle name.) “I never felt like a Tricia. And Rooney is more memorable.”

As Patricia growing up in the tony Westchester town of Bedford, Mara says she was a “loner” who shied away from team sports, even though in her family, football was everything. (Her great-grandfather Tim Mara founded the New York Giants.) “I was dragged to football games every week,” she says. “I just started liking it a few years ago, but I really hated it growing up.”

For a different, less all-American experience, after highschool Mara lived in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. From there, she headed to Kenya where she started a non-profit children”s relief charity called Faces of Kibera. “I needed to get out of the bubble of Westchester. I wanted to finish high school and experience other parts of the world before I tried acting.” Mara moved to Los Angeles two years ago, staying at first with her sister Kate Mara (also an actress). And since then, she”s been working non-stop. After she sexes up Tanner Hall as the precocious teen Fernanda, she”ll star in Youth in Revolt (with Michael Cera) and The Social Network, David Fincher”s buzzy Justin Timberlake-starring feature about the creators of Facebook. “In the movie I break up with Mark [Zuckerberg], which is the inspiration for him to start Facebook,” she explains. Good luck finding Mara on the social networking site. “I do have a Facebook account, but I very rarely use it,” she says. “I have my profile on private — so no one can find me.”

Just found these previously unseen pictures of Rooney at two new events at the Hamptons Film Festival last year: The Breakthrough Performers Mentors Brunch with Sharon Stone and the Chairman’’s Reception.

004 x Public Appearances – 10.10.09: Hamptons Film Festival – Chairman’s Reception

010 x Public Appearances – 10.10.09: Hamptons Film Festival – Breakthrough Mentor Brunch

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

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

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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