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Noomi Rapace (born 28 December 1979) is a Swedish actress.She is best-known for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish/Danish film adaptations of the Millennium series: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.She is also known for playing Madame Simza Heron in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows and the lead role of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw in the Ridley Scott science fiction film Prometheus. As of June 2012, she is shooting Niels Oplev's crime thriller Dead Man Down.

Rapace's mother, Nina Norén (born 1954) is a Swedish actress, and her father, Rogelio Durán (1953–2006), was a Spanish Flamenco singer from Badajoz.She has said that her father may have been of part Roma descent, and though she is "not sure if it is true," she has "always been interested in the culture."Rapace's sister, Særún Norén, is a photographer.Rapace has said she saw her father only occasionally before his death.
In 2009 she played the role of Lisbeth Salander in the film adaptation of the best-selling novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. She reprised her role in the sequels The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest. On 11 September 2010, Entertainment Weekly reported that Rapace had been cast in Guy Richie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, her first English-speaking role, as a French Gypsy; the film was released in 2011.Her breakthrough in America is considered to be Ridley Scott's project called Prometheus. She played the leading role, a scientist named Elizabeth Shaw. The film was released 1 June 2012.
Rapace married Swedish actor Ola Rapace in 2001. The couple have a son. In September 2010, the couple filed for divorce, taking effect during 2011