Rose Byrne

Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film Dallas Doll when she was 15 years old. She obtained her first leading role in The Goddess of 1967, which brought her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 57th Venice International Film Festival. In 2002, she made her first appearance in a Hollywood film with a brief appearance as Dormé, the handmaiden to Natalie Portman’s Senator Padmé Amidala, in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. Byrne appeared as Ellen Parsons in all 59 episodes of the legal thriller series Damages.

About Rose Byrne in brief

Summary Rose ByrneMary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film Dallas Doll when she was 15 years old. She obtained her first leading role in The Goddess of 1967, which brought her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 57th Venice International Film Festival. In 2002, she made her first appearance in a Hollywood film with a brief appearance as Dormé, the handmaiden to Natalie Portman’s Senator Padmé Amidala, in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones. Byrne appeared as Ellen Parsons in all 59 episodes of the legal thriller series Damages, which earned her two Golden Globe Awards nominations and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. In 2003, Byrne starred in three films; The Night We Called It A Day; The Placid Lake, with Ben Lee and Take Away, with Melanie Griffith. In the epic drama Troy, she took on the role of Brisise, the priest of Achilles, captured by Brad Pitt’s Achilles. All three films opened to varying degrees of success at the box office, but earned an AACTA Award nomination for Best actress. Byrne is of Irish and Scottish descent, and her parents are Jane, a primary school administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired statistician and market researcher. She has an older brother, George, and two older sisters, Alice and Lucy. In a 2009 interview, Byrne stated that her mother was an atheist, while both she and her father were agnostic. Her family was described by The Telegraph as \”close-knit\”, and frequently kept her feet grounded as her career took off.

In 1999, Byrne studied acting at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was developed by David Mamet and William H. Macy. She also appeared in La Dispute and in a production of Anton Chekhov’s classic Three Sisters at the Sydney Theatre Company. Get Him to the Greek and Bridesmaids established her as a comedic actress, in addition to the dramas and thrillers she continues to appear in. Byrne had flown to the UK to shoot I Capture the Castle, Tim Fywell’s adaptation of the 1948 novel of the same title by Dodie Smith. In it, she portrayed Rose Rose, the elder sister of Rose Mortmain, Romola Garai’s sister of Romola, in the movie adaptation of The Night we Called It a Day, with Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith and Dennis Griffith. She appeared in the 2002 thriller City of Ghosts, with Matt Dillon, and the 2003 drama City of Ghosts with Matt Dillon. She is the youngest of their four children; she is the eldest of two older siblings, George and Alice. She attended Balmain Public School and Hunters Hill High School before attending Bradfield College in Crows Nest, and later moved to Newtown and Bondi. She studied an arts degree at Sydney University, and starred in several Australian television shows, such as Wildside and Echo Point, and starred as an alterna-girl love interest in Two Hands.