Brit stars billed as the new Hollywood leading ladies

Lily Collins and Felicity Jones were among 11 women Vanity Fair dressed as Twenties sirens for an Art Deco-inspired shoot by famed photographer Mario Testino for the cover of its March issue.

They are:

Rooney Mara, 26, appeared in The Social Network in 2010 before playing the title role in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo last year.

Jennifer Lawrence played Raven/Mystique in X-Men: First Class. In 2012 the 22-year-old will appear in horror film House At The End Of The Street, The Silver Linings Playbook with Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper and science fiction film The Hunger Games.

3. Australian Mia Wasikowska, 22, made her name in the HBO series In Treatment and starred opposite Michael Fassbender in Jane Eyre and with Glenn Close in Albert Nobbs.

4. Jessica Chastain, 30, is up for best supporting actress at the Oscars next month for her turn in The Help and is about to start work on a project with Javier Bardem and Ben Affleck.

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Elizabeth Olsen, the 22-year-old younger sister of twins Mary-Kate and Ashley, earned rave reviews for her appearance in last year's indie hit Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Adepero Oduye, 34, turned down a career as a doctor to pursue acting, and impressed in her movie debut Pariah where she played a 17-year-old coming to terms with her sexuality.

Shailene Woodley, 20, burst onto the scene in The Descendants last year where she held her own starring alongside George Clooney.

Although she made her movie debut in 2005 in Hitch, it wasn't until 2009 that Paula Patton, 36, caught the eye in Precious. She was most recently in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.

English actress Felicity Jones, 28, first appeared on television in The Worst Witch and went on to star in Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant's comedy Cemetery Junction. The new face of Dolce & Gabbana, the Birmingham star is about to appear in romantic comedy Hysteria, about the invention of the vibrator.

Lily Collins, the 22-year-old daughter of singer Phil, She appeared in BBC series Growing Pains at two and moved to Los Angeles when she was five. In 2009 she played Sandra Bullock's daughter in The Blind Side, and will appear alongside Julia Roberts in Mirror Mirror.

Brit Marling left a Wall Street career to go into acting and wrote and starred in The Sound Of My Voice and Another Earth. She has three films in the works for 2012 including The Company You Keep, directed by Robert Redford.

The March issue of Vanity Fair goes on sale on February 7.