Rose Byrne

At 44 years old, Rose Byrne has this physical status:

Mary Rose Byrne (born 24 July 1979) is an Australian actress.

She made her screen debut in the film Dallas Doll (1994) and continued to appear in Australian film and television throughout the 1990s.

She appeared in The Goddess of 1967, which earned her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and made the move to Hollywood in the small role of Dormé in Star Wars: Episode II (2004), 28 Weeks Later (2005), and Knowing (2008). Ellen Parsons appeared in all 59 episodes of the crime drama series Damages (2007–2010), which earned her two Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Get Him to the Greek (2010) and Bridesmaids (2011) established her as a comedic actress, in contrast to the dramas and thrillers in which she appears.

Early life

Byrne was born in Balmain, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, and he was born byrne. She has ancestry of both Irish and Scottish origins. Jane, a primary school administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired statistician and market researcher, are among her parents. She is the youngest of their four children; George, her older brother, and Alice and Lucy, George's younger sister. Byrne said in a 2009 interview that her mother was an atheist, and that both she and her father were agnostic. The Telegraph referred to her family as "close-knit" and that she often kept her feet firmly grounded as her family's lives began. "Watch yourself" she once remarked at one point. "But they were really helpful."

Byrne attended Balmain Public School and Hunters Hill High School before heading to Bradfield College in Crows Nest, New South Wales. She then moved to Newtown, New South Wales, and Bondi, New South Wales. She began taking acting lessons at age eight, inspired by one of her sisters, and joined the Australian Theatre for Young People at Age 8. Byrne was the subject of "plenty of ridicule" from film schools as a teenager. "I applied for a few of the top drama schools, including Nepean, WAAPA, NIDA, and NIDA, but I was rejected for any of them." I was really dissatisfied with myself. I wasn't positive if I'd be legitimate without having been trained for three years in a more traditional sense." Rather, she obtained a Sydney University arts degree. "I have vivid memories of those days: studying, working, and auditioning." "I'm just a working actor trying to figure out life after high school." Byrne studied at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was founded by David Mamet and William H. Macy in 1999.

Personal life

"I don't think that insecurity ever leaves you," Byrne said in New York when she was in New York and said she was insecure about a stable career. You're a freelancer. There's always an element of mystery."

Byrne had been in a six-year relationship with Australian writer, director, and actor Brendan Cowell. Following Byrne's success on Damages, Cowell migrated from Sydney to New York City. In January 2010, the couple's friendship came to an end.

Since 2012, Byrne has been in a relationship with American actor Bobby Cannavale. The couple have two sons who were born in February 2016 and November 2017.

Byrne has helped UNICEF Australia by being the face of the 2007 Designers United campaign and a member of Tropfest@Tribeca in 2007. She is a graduate and ambassador for NIDA's (National Institute of Dramatic Art) Young Actors Studio.

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Career

Byrne appeared in Dallas Doll (1994), her first film role, when she was 15 years old. She appeared in many Australian television shows, including Wildside (1997) and Echo Point (1995), and appeared as an alterna-girl love interest in the film Two Hands (1999), opposite fellow up-and-coming actor Heath Ledger. She appeared in the award-winning film My Mother Frank (2004), followed by her first leading role in Clara Law's The Goddess of 1967 (also 2000), which earned her the Volpi Award for Best Actress at the 57th Venice International Film Festival. In a post-award interview, Byrne revealed that, before winning the Venice Film Festival Award, she was surprised by her own appearance and found it frustrating to watch the film because her acting was "too depressing." "Watching myself is frightening," Byrne said, because I'm positive I can't act and I want to get out.

Byrne appeared on stage in La Dispute and in Anton Chekhov's classic Three Sisters at the Sydney Theatre Company. In Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, she made her first appearance in a Hollywood film in 2002 as Dormé, the handmaiden to Natalie Portman's Senator Padmé Amidala. She appeared in the 2002 thriller City of Ghosts alongside Matt Dillon. Byrne had flown to the United Kingdom to shoot I Capture the Castle (2004), Tim Fywell's interpretation of Dodie Smith's 1948 book of the same name. Rose Mortmain, Romola Garcai's older sister, was depicted in the film.

Byrne appeared in three Australian films; The Night We Called It A Day, with Melanie Griffith and Dennis Hopper; and Take Away with Vince Colosimo, Stephen Curry, John Howard, and Nathan Phillips. All films were comedies and opened to mixed levels of success at the box office, but Byrne's The Rage in Placid Lake received the AACTA Award for Best Actress. She played Briseis, the escaped priestess who was portrayed to "amuse" Brad Pitt's Achilles in the epic drama Troy (2004). "Byrne's spoils-of-war chattel plays more as a convenient device than a woman who may have the ability to turn Achilles' head and heart around," Variety's review of the film. The thriller Wicker Park, Byrne appeared in her second film release as the girlfriend of a young advertising executive's old friend. Wicker Park director Paul McGuigan described her as "beautiful, uncomplicated, pure actress, and a very nice person," according to her Troy co-star Peter O'Toole.

Byrne and Peter O'Toole, playing a young servant in the BBC TV drama Casanova (2005), a three-episode production about the 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, a three-episode production about 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, were reunited with the actress Giacomo Casanova. She appeared in Snoop Dogg in The Tenants in 2005, based on Bernard Malamud's book. Byrne portrayed Gabrielle de Polastron, a French aristocrat and companion of Marie Antoinette, in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, and suggested that the missing woman she is interviewing is her missing sister in Karen Moncrief's critically acclaimed thriller The Dead Girl.

Byrne appeared in two studio sci-fi thriller films in 2007. In Danny Boyle's Sunshine, she appeared as a space vessel's pilot, Cillian Murphy and Chris Evans, as well as an army medical officer, and also an army medical officer. Although Sunshine failed, 28 Weeks Later was a critical success and earned over $64.2 million worldwide. Ellen Parsons, a vivacious young prosecutor, will start by pardoning with Glenn Close in the FX legal thriller television series Damages in 2007. Her performance has been widely praised, with Byrne receiving the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2009 and 2010, as well as twice for the Best Supporting Actress award in a Drama Series, Miniseries, or Television Film in 2008 and 2010. She appeared in all fifty nine episodes of the series and until its conclusion in September 2012.

Byrne returned to the mainstream with the role of the mother of a teenager in the 2008 sci-fi thriller Knowing, which earned US$186.5 million worldwide and received mixed feedback. Byrne was not being strategic in her film choices back in the day. "You want to go where you want to go," she said, but so much is out of your reach. After the success of Damages, she begged her agents to bring her out for comedies. "I was doing all of this really heavy, beautiful stuff, and I just needed a break," she said. When she landed the role of a scandalous pop star and the on-and-off girlfriend of a free-spirited rock star in the comedy Get Him to the Greek (2010), which also stars Russell Brand and Jonah Hill, she was fulfilled. "Why is she here?" director Nicholas Stoller explained in his audition. Because, well, she's a natural performer, but not so serious." Despite this, he said that Byrne "just destroyed [...] Like, devastated in the way that someone from Saturday Night Live would. And that was all." With a net of US$60.9 million in North America, the film was a commercial success.

Byrne's career came to a halt in 2011 when three high-profile films starring her in major roles were released theatrically, which would eventually lead to a career that would see three to four films per year. In her first film release, James Wan's Insidious, she starred as one half of a couple whose son mysteriously enters a comatose state and becomes a vessel for ghosts in an astral dimension where ghosts are able to inhabit his body. The film, which was budgeted at US$1.5 million, opened in the United States and marked the beginning of a new franchise as a whole. Together with Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, and Wendi McLendon-Covey, Byrne took on the role of the groom's boss's rich, beautiful, and respected wife of the groom's groom's groom's boss. Bridesmaids were both critically and commercially profitable; it earned US$26 million in its first weekend and then over US$288 million worldwide.

Moira MacTaggert, a character she introduced as "a woman in a man's world, she's very feisty and ambitious," she said. Except for "what a juggernaut of a film it was," she said, she was unfamiliar with both the comics and film series. By the time she was chosen for the role, the actress was late to film, which had also began. First Class, her third and final 2011 film, was also a box office hit, grossing US$353.6 million around the world.

In 2013, Byrne had four film debuts and one short film. In I Give It a Year, a comedy about the trials and tribulations of a couple during their first year of marriage, she obtained the appearance of the newlywed wife, opposite Rafe Spall. Byrne and Spall were found "mismatched," Variety praised their chemistry and said: "Year will do nothing but raise the profile of its key actors, especially Byrne, who is making her way into an ace comedienne perfectly suited to screwball." The film was a commercial success in the United Kingdom and Australia, where it was widely distributed in theaters. In The Place Beyond the Pines, a generational drama starring Derek Cianfrance, she appeared alongside Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper as the wife of a police officer who shoots a bank robber and is forced to deal with the consequences. "The way it addressed the generational divide and the ever-changing landscape of the modern age," she played a Google executive in the film The Internship, opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.

Byrne produced The Turning, a short film installment in a Tim Winton omnibus film project, and joined Wan and Whannell on the sequel Insidious: Chapter 2, reuniting with Patrick Wilson and Lin Shaye. Following its debut, the film received mixed feedback from critics and became the country's biggest opening day in history for the month of September. The company eventually earned more than US$160 million against a US$5 million budget. Byrne appeared in the family drama This Is Where I Leave You and the comedy Neighbors, as well as Seth Rogen and Zac Efron's script in which she appeared as one half of a couple who is in danger with a fraternity that has recently arrived in the next door. "Byrne walks away from the film by making [her character] a well-rounded, conflicted individual rather than the film's fun cop who has to remind everyone the boring truth," Critics praised. The film was a box office hit, grossing US$270.1 million worldwide.

In December 2014, a critically acclaimed but still commercially successful remake of Annie, the 1982 film, was released in London and featured Grace Farrell, the titular character's mother figure and Mr. Stacks' faithful personal assistant. Byrne reunited with Melissa McCarthy in the hit comedy action film Spy, playing the daughter of an arms dealer, and also appeared with Susan Sarandon in the dramedy The Meddler as the daughter of an elderly widow whose husband's husband's divorce after her husband's death in 2015. Critics and journalists praised the film, but there was still an audience for it in limited release. She starred in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and Apocalypse in 2016 and 2017, but its distributor dropped it after she was arrested by the C.K. following sexual assault allegations against him.

Bea, a local woman who spends her time painting pictures of the rabbits in the live-action comedy Peter Rabbit, earned US$351.2 million worldwide, byrne in 2018. She reprised her role in Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, a 2021 film. In Juliet, Naked (also 2018), a romantic comedy based on Nick Hornby's book of the same name, she appeared as a woman dating an obscure rock musician (played by Ethan Hawke). "Juliet, Naked's somewhat familiar narrative arc is enriched by standout performances from a charming cast led by a well-matched Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke," Rotten Tomatoes' critical consensus reading. I Am Mother (2019) is a drama and sci-fi film starring Clara Rugaard and Oscar winner Hilary Swank. In the 2019 film Jexi, Byrne costarring Adam Devine, Alexandra Shipp, and Wanda Sykes, he also voiced a virtual assistant.

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