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Rose Byrne

Age: 30
Height: 168 cm

Birth Place: Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Born: Jul. 24th, 1979

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Rose Byrne's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Damages	Ellen Parsons
Heartbreak High (AU)	Carly Whitely
Echo Point (AU)	Belinda O'Con&hellip

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Rose was born on July 24, 1979, in Sydney, Australia. She landed her first role in a movie, Dallas Doll (1994), when she was 12 years old.

Since then, Rose has appeared in a variety of Australian televisions shows including "Heartbreak High" (1994), "Echo Point" (1995), and the film Two Hands (1999) alongside Heath Ledger. After this, she appeared in various movies like The Date (1999), My Mother Frank (2000), and Clara Law (I)'s The Goddess of 1967 (2000) for which she obtained the Female Volpi Cup at the Venice Festival in 2000.

Her first experience on a big-budget movie came when she played handmaiden, Dorm�, to Natalie Portman, Padm� Amidala, in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). In 2003, she starred, coincidentally, as Rose Mortmain in the adaptation of Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle (2003). In 2004, she acted in Wicker Park (2004) with Diane Kruger and Josh Hartnett. Here, she heard Wolfgang Petersen (I) was looking for an actress for Briseis in his next movie Troy (2004) with Brad Pitt, she got the part and was recognised as one of the most promising actresses in Hollywood.

After Troy (2004), she played Edith in a TV adaptation of "Casanova" (2005). In September 2005, she started to act in Sunshine (2007), a Danny Boyle movie, where she plays the pilot in a space mission.

TRIVIA:

Both Byrne's parents are atheists, while she describes herself as agnostic.
Father: Robin, mother: Jane, brother: George, born 1976, sisters: Alice, born 1973 and Lucy, born 1972.
She and her _Marie Antoinette (2006)_ (qv) director, 'Sofia Coppola' (qv), have both played handmaidens in the Star Wars prequels. 'Sofia Coppola' (qv) appeared in Episode I, Byrne in Episode II.
Favorite actor is 'Jack Nicholson' (qv).
Has two older siblings Lucy and George who is a musician.
Best friends with fellow Australian actress 'Nadia Townsend' (qv) since they both were 8 years old.
Was originally tipped to play "Helen" in _Troy (2004)_ (qv) but it was "Brisies"'s character Rose felt affinity for.
Named in the Most Beautiful People of 2007 list in Who Magazine.