Rose Byrne Add to My Celebs Age 32 Birthday Jul. 24th, 1979 Born in Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Height 168 cm

Rose Byrne's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Damages Ellen Parsons Heartbreak High (AU) Carly Whitely Casanova (UK) Edith Echo Point (AU) Belinda O'C…

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Get Him To the Greek 2009 - Knowing 2008 - The Tender Hook 2007 - 28 Weeks Later 2007 - Sunshine 2007 - Just Buried 2006 - Marie Antoinette 2005 - The Tenants 2004 - Wicker Park 2004 - Troy 2003 - The Rage in Placid Lake 2003 - Take Away 2003 - I Capture the Castle 2002 - City of Ghosts 2002 - Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones 2000 - The Goddess of 1967 1999 - Two Hands 1994 - Dallas Doll

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, Dormé, to Natalie Portman, Padmé 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:

• Left Los Angeles and moved to London where she owns a house with her sister (2005)
• She trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Grappling. Her teacher and close friend is Jiu-Jitsu legend Kyra Gracie, who taught Byrne for awhile, when she was in Sidney. Currently (2008-2009), Byrne trains at the Axis Jiu-Jitsu Academy, when in Australia, and at Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, in New York.
• Father: Robin, mother: Jane, brother: George, born 1976, sisters: Alice, born 1973 and Lucy, born 1972.
• In 2004, she and 'Diane Kruger' (qv) played the two female leads in both movies _Wicker Park (2004)_ (qv) and _Troy (2004)_ (qv).
• Named in the Most Beautiful People of 2007 list in Who Magazine.
• Is of Scottish and Irish descent
• Both Byrne's parents are atheists, while she describes herself as agnostic.
• Favorite artistes include: 'Pat Benatar' (qv), 'Bob Marley (I)' (qv), 'Bryan Adams (I)' (qv).

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