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Rooney Mara will be the girl with the dragon tattoo

By Carolyn Kellogg
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Actress Rooney Mara will play Lisbeth Salander, the edgy heroine of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” The wildly popular mystery has already been brought to the screen in Swedish; director David Fincher will begin filming an English language version next month.

The book is the first in the bestselling trilogy, followed by “The Girl Who Played With Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest.” According to our sibling blog 24 Frames, Mara and Daniel Craig have signed on to costar in film adaptations of all three.

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For Mara, born in 1985, her most high-profile role to date has been in the 2010 version of “A Nightmare on Elm Street.” Daniel Craig’s career took off when he portrayed another character from popular fiction: Ian Fleming’s James Bond.

-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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