FILMOGRAPHY

2006] Untitled Sunshine Project
2006] Marie-Antoinette
2005] The Tenants
2004] Troy
2004] Wicker Park
2003] The Rage In Placid Lake
2003] The Night We Called It a Day
2003] Take Away
2003] I Capture the Castle
2002] City of Ghosts
2002] Star Wars: Episode II
2001] The Pitch
2000] The Goddess of 1967
2000] My Mother Frank
1999] Two Hands
1999] The Date
1995] "Echo Point"
1994] Dallas Doll

LINKS

IMDB
http://rose-byrne.org/
http://rose.starbuzz.com/

CONTACT

Rose Byrne
c/o William Morris Agency
151 El Camino Beverly Hills,
CA 90212 USA

Born 24 July 1979 Sydney.

Starred with Australian musician Darren Hayes in his music video for his single "I Miss You."

In 2000 she won a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival for best actress in The Goddess of 1967.

Byrne is the youngest of four children of Irish-Scottish stock. Her mother is a primary school administrator and father is a semi-retired statistician. All four of the Byrne children have chosen creative careers: brother is a photographer, one sister is a painter and the other works in publishing in London.

Rose is friends with 'Head Start' actor Nadia Townsend.

When Rose was 13, after a casting agent visited the ATYP to scout talent for a feature called Dallas Doll, Byrne was given her first role.

Rose enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts at Sydney University. She had just started university when she went to the audition for Two Hands and got the part. As yet she is only halfway through her degree but adamant that she will finish it one day.

Towards the end of filming Two Hands, Byrne began dating Gregor Jordan, who was then 32. "We were together for two years. He was my first long-term boyfriend," she says quietly. They remain on good terms. "When I got the role in Troy, he rang up and said, ‘Good on yer Byrnie'."

Byrne first wanted to be an actor like her idol, Kylie Minogue. "I wanted to be on Neighbours. I wanted to be Charlene," she laughs.

Rose on her role in Star Wars Episode 2:
"That was easy, I just stood by Natalie Portman looking very serious."

Rose comments on attending Bradfield College in north Sydney for years 11 and 12:
"It's like a university, where you don't wear a uniform and you can smoke on campus if you want, and where you call the teachers by their first names. They had a really good drama department there, which is why I went."

Rose went to the Australian Theatre for Young People:
"They offered various courses, and I started there when I was about eight and went till I was about 15."

Rose on failing to get into NIDA or one of its competitors:
"I auditioned for them all but didn't get in, I was shattered!"

Rose on working overseas:
"The worst was the time I spent in Los Angeles, which runs on bullshit and cliches. But then, it's really easy to diss the place. The physical environment of LA is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody."

Rose on being tagged the next big thing:
"I don't take it seriously. Because I'm the one living my life. I mean, I've got this tiny part in this big Brad Pitt movie, and everyone here thinks I'm playing Sally to Brad Pitt's Harry. I'm not, and I'm constantly having to say that."

How did I Capture the Castle come to you in the first place?:
"I was in LA. I just arrived, I have an agent there, and I was on a trip trying to get work, I was unemployed and it was the first audition I went for, actually. I got off the plane and that night she sent me the script, and the next morning I went in and auditioned."

Paul Goldman (Director of The Night We Called It A Day) said Dennis Hopper told him:
"in passing that he had slept with the cream of Hollywood actresses in his time and he said that Rose Byrne was as beautiful as any of them. I didn't tell that to Rose until the end".