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Rumor has it that Keira Knightley will make her West End debut as a sexy suspected lesbian in Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour. Acclaimed director William Wyler helmed the 1961 big screen version of Hellman’s play starring Shirley MacLaine as the tortured closeted lesbian Martha Dobie and Audrey Hepburn as her business partner and woman she loves Karen Wright.

From construction boots to Keira Knightley, our parents should have clued in to our queerness pretty early on...

Here’s today’s smattering of pop culture tidbits from around the Web. Some of the ladies making headlines today: Christina Hendricks, Keira Knightley and Helen Mirren, Rooney Mara, Ke$ha, Angelina Jolie, Jordin Sparks and Megan Fox to name a few of our lesbian favorites.

Last week it was announced that Keira Knightley will star in a West End production of Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour, and if Ms. Knightley is not enough to entice fans to take a trip to London, now Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss is slated to star alongside Keira.Hellman’s 1934 lesbian-themed play was banned in Boston but opened in Paris to sensational reviews before debuting on Broadway in 1936. It instantly turned Hellman into one of the most famous writers of her day. Keira will step into the role of Karen Wright while Elisabeth will play the tortured Martha. And after watching Elisabeth go toe to toe with Jon Hamm's Don Draper on Mad Men this season here's predicting a nomination for an Olivier Award.

Yes, the part of Lisbeth Salander in the American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has finally been cast after months and months of waiting and speculation and the winner is...Rooney Mara! Have no idea who Rooney Mara is? Don’t worry, you’re not alone, and that’s exactly how director David Fincher wants it. Countless big-name actresses were at one point or another rumored to have been up for the part, including Natalie Portman, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett Johansson, Keira Knightley, Ellen Page, Emma Watson, and Kristen Stewart to name only a few.

Here's a smattering of pop culture from around the web! Today's tidbits include: Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss, Oprah and her The Color Purple reunion with Whoopi Goldberg, bisexual Megan Fox thinks Olivia Wilde is sexy, Natalie Portman calls lesbian kiss with Mila Kunis for The Black Swan 'awkward,' Tina Fey and her 30 Rock crew's new time slot, Julie Taymor' The Tempest and Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark photos from Vogue, and Glee's Naya Rivera thinks Santana and Brittany (Heather Morris) are soulmates!

Bad Santas, earnestly charming boyish elves, Scrooge, the whole Jesus is the Son of God thing... Holiday movies are notoriously devoid of strong women, let alone lesbians. But we at SheWired scoured the archives of holiday films, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's, to find the ones that offer snappy women, gay girl eye candy or in the very rare instance, a lesbian character.  Enjoy Holly Hunter, Judy Davis, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Keira Knightley, Judy Garland, Barbara Stanwyck, Kyra Sedgwick, Julianna Margulies, Martha Plimpton and more.

This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine pays homage to “Hollywood Heroines -- 13 Leading Ladies of 2012.” With her mega-box office turn as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and her Oscar-buzz performance in Silver Linings Playbook no list of great movie actresses of 2012 would be complete without one Ms. Jennifer Lawrence and she definitely made it into the NYT Mag's list.

A brand new season is starting on Broadway, so get these ladies on your radar!

First she created a role for herself as Kurt’s lesbian aunt on Glee and now Anne Hathaway has landed one of the most sought after roles since the American Lisbeth Salander. Anne joins a long list of ladies who’ve played Catwoman, now that she’s won the role in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, with Christian Bale. Anne joins Halle Berry, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eartha Kitt, Lee Merriwether and Julie Newmar as women who’ve inhabited the cat in the Batman series.

Forbes has pretty great taste in its 30 Under 30.

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Her feminist character’s sexuality may be up for debate, but Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss is proud that Jane Lynch hit on her, Bette Midler yelled at her, and that she’s followed in Madonna’s footsteps.

The cutest pics from the lead-up to Hollywood's biggest night!