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| birthname = Rose Judith Esther Byrne | birthname = Rose Judith Esther Byrne
| yearsactive = 1994–present | yearsactive = 1994–present
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'''Rose Judith Esther Byrne''' (born 24 July 1979) is a ]-nominated Australian ]. '''Rose Judith Esther Byrne''' (born 24 July 1979) is a ]-nominated ] ].


==Biography== ==Biography==
===Early life=== ===Early life===
Byrne was born in ], the daughter of Jane, a ] administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired ] and market researcher.<ref></ref> She attended ] and ] before attending ] in ]. She has an older brother, George, and two older sisters, Alice and Lucy. She began taking acting classes at age eight, joining the ] and also attended the ]. In 1999 Byrne studied acting at the ] developed by ] and ]. Known to family and close family friends as Chabs after a family cat she had in her youth named Chablis, after the wine, a favourite of her native Australia. Byrne was born in ], a suburb of ], ], ], of ] and ] descent, the daughter of Jane, a ] administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired ] and market researcher.<ref></ref> She attended ] and ] before attending ] in ]. She has an older brother, George, and two older sisters, Alice and Lucy. She began taking acting classes at age eight, joining the ] and also attended the ]. In 1999 Byrne studied acting at the ] developed by ] and ]. Known to family and close family friends as Chabs after a family cat she had in her youth named Chablis, after the wine, a favourite of her native Australia.


===Career=== ===Career===
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===Personal life=== ===Personal life===
Byrne has been in a relationship with Australian writer, director and actor ] for over five years. The couple have maintained a long-distance for much of their relationship, with work commitments meaning they were often on separate continents. Byrne has been in a relationship with Australian writer, director and actor ] for over five years. The couple have maintained a long-distance for much of their relationship, with work commitments meaning they were often on separate continents. However, Cowell has planned a move from Sydney to New York City, due to Byrne's success on '']''.


However, Cowell has planned a move from Sydney to New York City, due to Byrne's success on '']''.
Previously she dated Australian writer, director ] who directed her in '']''. Previously she dated Australian writer, director ] who directed her in '']''.


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;Nominated ;Nominated
*] *]
**2008 - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for '']'' **2008- Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for '']'' (2007)
* Movie Extra Filmink Awards * ]
**2008- Best Performance By an Aussie In An Overseas Movie for '']'' **2008- Best Performance by an Aussie In An Overseas Movie for '']'' (2007)
* ] * ]
**2003- Best Actress in a Leading Role for '']'' **2003- AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for '']'' (2003)
* ] * ]
**2002- Best Actress for '']'' **2002- FCCA Award for Best Actress for '']'' (2000)


;Won ;Won
* ] * ]
**2007- Best International Actress for '']'' **2007- International Award for Best Actress for '']'' (2007)
* ] * ]
**2000- Volpi Cup For Best Actress for '']'' **2000- Volpi Cup for Best Actress for '']'' (2000)


==Filmography== ==Filmography==
* '']'' (1994) .... Rastus Sommers
===Films===
* '']'' (unknown episodes, 1995) .... Belinda O'Connor
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* '']'' (1 episode, "Lerve, Lerve, Lerve", 1997) .... Siobhan
|- bgcolor="#B0C4DE" align="center"
* '']'' (2 episodes, "#1.1" and "#1.2", 1997) .... Heidi Benson
! Year
* '']'' (1999) .... Sophie
! Title
* '']'' (1 episode, "A Family Affair", 1999) .... Angie
! Role
* '']'' (1 episode, "#7.1", 1999) .... Carly
|-
* '']'' (1999) .... Alex
|rowspan="1"| 1999
* '']'' (2000) .... Jenny
| '']''
* '']'' (2000) .... B.G.
| Alex
* '']'' (1 episode, "Still Life", 2000) .... Sarah Watson
|-
* '']'' (2001) .... Girl
|rowspan="2"| 2000
* '']'' (2002) .... Dormé
| '']''
* '']'' (2002) .... Sabrina
| Jenny
* '']'' (2003) .... Rose Mortmain
|-
* '']'' (2003) .... Audrey Appleby
| '']''
* '']'' (2003) .... Gemma Taylor
| BG
* '']'' (2003) .... Sonja Stilano
|-
* '']'' (3 episodes, "24 May 2004", "8 September 2004" and "#3.189", 2004-2006) .... Herself
|rowspan="2"| 2002
* '']'' (2004) .... ]
| '']''
* '']'' (2 episodes, "2 September 2004" and "22 November 2004", 2004) .... Herself
| ]
* '']'' (2004) .... Alex
|-
* '']'' (unknown episodes, 2005) .... Edith
| '']''
* '']'' (2005) .... Irene Bell
| Sabrina
* '']'' (2006) .... ]
|-
* '']'' (2006) .... Leah
|rowspan="4"| 2003
* '']'' (2006) (]) .... Herself in ] (uncredited)
| '']''
* '']'' (2007) .... Cassie
| Rose Mortmain
* '']'' (2007) .... Scarlet
|-
* '']'' (2007) .... Roberta Knickel
| '']''
* '']'' (2007) (]) .... Herself
| Audrey Appleby
* '']'' (2007) (]) .... Herself
|-
* '']'' (2007) (]) .... Herself
| '']''
* '']'' (1 episode, "20 August 2007", 2007) .... Herself
| Gemma Taylor
* '']'' (1 episode, "#8.2", 2007) .... Herself
|-
| '']'' * '']'' (2008) .... Iris
* '']'' (14 episodes, 2007-2009) .... ]
| Sonja Stilano
* '']'' (2008) (]) .... Herself
|-
* '']'' (2008) .... Beth (post-production)
|rowspan="2"| 2004
| '']'' * '']'' (2009) .... Diana Whelan (post-production)
| ]
|-
| '']''
| Alex
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2005
| '']''
| Irene Bell
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2006
| '']''
| ]
|-
| '']''
| Leah
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2007
| '']''
| Cassie
|-
| '']''
| Major Scarlett Ross
|-
|rowspan="2"| 2008
| '']''
| Roberta Knickle
|-
| '']''
| Iris
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2009
| '']''
| Diana Whelan
|}

=== Television credits ===
{| border="2" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 90%;"
|- bgcolor="#B0C4DE" align="center"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Other notes
|-
|rowspan="1"| 1995
| '']''
| Belinda O Conor
| Lead character
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1997
| '']''
| Siobhan
|Guest(1 episode)
|-
| '']''
| Heidi Benson
| Guest(2 episodes)
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1999
| '']''
| Angie
|Guest (1 episode)
|-
| '']''
| Carly Whitely
| Guest (3 episodes)
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2000
| '']''
| Sarah Watson
|Guest(1 episode)
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2005
| '']''
| Edith
| ] Mini series
|-
|rowspan="1"| 2007–2010
| '']''
| Ellen Parsons
| Lead character
|-
|}


==References== ==References==
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==External links== ==External links==
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* {{MySpace|id=rose_byrne|name=Rose Byrne}}
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Revision as of 16:46, 9 December 2008

Rose Byrne
Rose Byrne, 2008
BornRose Judith Esther Byrne
Years active1994–present
AwardsVolpi Cup for Best Actress
2000 The Goddess of 1967

Rose Judith Esther Byrne (born 24 July 1979) is a Golden Globe-nominated Australian actress.

Biography

Early life

Byrne was born in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, of Irish and Scottish descent, the daughter of Jane, a primary school administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired statistician and market researcher. She attended Balmain Public School and Hunters Hill High School before attending Bradfield Senior College in North Sydney. She has an older brother, George, and two older sisters, Alice and Lucy. She began taking acting classes at age eight, joining the Australian Theatre for Young People and also attended the University of Sydney. In 1999 Byrne studied acting at the Atlantic Theatre Company developed by David Mamet and William H. Macy. Known to family and close family friends as Chabs after a family cat she had in her youth named Chablis, after the wine, a favourite of her native Australia.

Career

Byrne was cast in her first film role, Dallas Doll, when she was 12 years old. She has appeared in a variety of Australian television shows including Heartbreak High, Echo Point, and the film Two Hands alongside Heath Ledger. She appeared in The Date, My Mother Frank, and Clara Law's The Goddess of 1967 for which she obtained the Female Volpi Cup at the 2000 Venice Film Festival. Meanwhile, she appeared as a guest in an episode of the cop drama series Murder Call. She also acted on stage, playing a lead role in La Dispute and starred in a production of Anton Chekhov's classic Three Sisters at the Sydney Theatre Company.

Byrne appeared in the music video of Darren Hayes's single I Miss You and starred with Australian musician Alex Lloyd in the music video for his single Black The Sun and was featured on the cover artwork for the EP. She also appeared in the TV Commercial for Sony and reunited with Alex Lloyd, appearing in his music video for 1000 Miles from the album Distant Light.

In 2002, Byrne entered Hollywood with a small role as Dormé, the loyal handmaiden to Natalie Portman's Senator Padmé Amidala, in George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. and appeared the same year in the movie City of Ghosts with Matt Dillon.

The next year, she flew 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 the film, which relates the adventures of the eccentric Mortmain family struggling to survive in a decaying English castle in the 1930s, she portrayed Rose Mortmain, the elder sister of Romola Garai's Cassandra. She starred the same year in three Australian films: The Night We Called It a Day alongside Melanie Griffith and Dennis Hopper; The Rage in Placid Lake for which she was named Best Actress at the Australian Film Institute with singer Ben Lee; and Take Away another comedy.

In 2004, Byrne starred as Briseis the Trojan priestess who was abducted during the Trojan War by Achilles (played by Brad Pitt), in Wolfgang Petersen's epic Troy, also starring Eric Bana, Peter O’Toole, Sean Bean, and Orlando Bloom. She then reunited with Peter O'Toole in the acclaimed BBC TV drama Casanova. Byrne appeared with Snoop Dogg in Danny Green's film The Tenants, based on Bernard Malamud's novel, and starred with Josh Hartnett and Diane Kruger in the romantic psychological thriller Wicker Park where she played Alex, the woman who manipulated Josh Hartnett's character to keep him apart from the woman he falls in love with.

In 2006 Byrne portrayed Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac a French aristocrat and friend of Marie Antoinette, in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, alongside Kirsten Dunst and The Dead Girl directed by Karen Moncrieff.

In 2007, she played Cassie, the pilot in Danny Boyle's science fiction suspense film Sunshine, and then portrayed Scarlett Ross, an army medical officer in Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's sci-fi horror 28 Weeks Later, the sequel to Boyle's 28 Days Later.

She will next be seen in the independent film Just Buried, a Canadian dark comedy written and directed by Chaz Thorne as well as an Australian film noir The Tender Hook with Hugo Weaving.

Byrne is currently in a FX drama production Damages, playing the regular lead role of Ellen Parsons, a young attorney torn between her hard-hitting, high-stakes new boss (Glenn Close) and her own ambitions.

She and Marie Antoinette director Sofia Coppola have both played handmaidens in the Star Wars prequels: Coppola appeared in The Phantom Menace, Byrne in Attack of the Clones. She was the face of Max Factor between 2004 and 2006 and named in the Most Beautiful People of 2007 list in Who Magazine.

Byrne has supported UNICEF Australia by being the face of the 2007 Designers United campaign and a member of tropfest jury in 2006 and tropfest@tribeca in 2007. She is a graduate and ambassador for NIDA's (National Institute of Dramatic Art) Young Actors Studio. She was recently named the first patron of Chauvel Cinemas presented by the Brisbane International Film Festival and named in honour of Charles Chauvel.

Byrne has used several different accents in her films: Australian, British, American, and the Canadian.

Personal life

Byrne has been in a relationship with Australian writer, director and actor Brendan Cowell for over five years. The couple have maintained a long-distance for much of their relationship, with work commitments meaning they were often on separate continents. However, Cowell has planned a move from Sydney to New York City, due to Byrne's success on Damages.

Previously she dated Australian writer, director Gregor Jordan who directed her in Two Hands.

Awards

Nominated
Won

Filmography

References

  1. Rose Byrne Biography (1979-)
  2. ^ Sacha, Molitorisz (5 July 2007). Rose Byrne accidental star. The Age
  3. Michael, Fitzgerard (18 May 2004)The Goddess of Troy The Time
  4. Josh, Hartnett (July, 2004).TV.com Rose Byrne Josh Hartnett's interview. Interview
  5. Craig, Mathieson (15 June 2007). Rose by another name. The Sydney Mornig Herald
  6. Kevin, Maher (17 March 2007). Byrne as hot as the sun. The Time
  7. Stacy, Layne (july 16, 2007). Horror.com Rose Byrne Interview. Horror.com
  8. Jack, Foley (18 April 2007). Sunshine Rose Byrne Interview. Indie London
  9. Sharaff, Amy (10 September 2007). Byrne Confront gory scenes in Just Buried. Metro Canada
  10. ^ Michael, Flaherty (19 July 2007). 60 Seconds With Rose Byrne LA Times
  11. Stephanie, Balogh (19 September 2007). Rose Byrne grows in New York. Herald Sun
  12. Tim, Surette (Augustus 14, 2007). TV.com Q&A: Damages' Rose Byrne. TV.com
  13. Moore, Frazier (12 October 2007). Byrne is damaged lawyer on `Damages' . "Associated Press"
  14. Olivia, Bishop (15 June 2007) Most Beautiful People: Rose Byrne. Who.com
  15. McCarthy, Sean L (Augustus 31, 2007). Tropfest@Tribeca comes to NYC . "Nydailynews"
  16. Collins, Catarina (10 September 2007).Just Buried a hilarious look at some dark truths. Toronto Film Festival

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