Rose Byrne

Mary Rose Byrne was born in Balmain, Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia, on July 24, 1979. With Scottish and Irish blood running through her veins, her mother ran a primary school and her father was a market analyst. She is the youngest of four siblings, and as a girl, at eight years old, she attended classes at the Australian Theater for Young People. She also studied at the University of Sydney, and later, in the United States, she completed her acting training at the Atlantic Theater Company promoted by David Mamet and William H. Macy .

Rose’s first screen jobs were in her native country. At the age of thirteen, she appeared in Dallas Doll , and then in the television series Los rompecorazones (1994). But perhaps her first major work of hers is Two Hands (1999), where she would also draw Hollywood attention to the ill-fated Heath Ledger .

But of course, attracting the attention of Hollywood may consist of being entrusted with the role of Dormé, a handmaiden to Queen Amidala in Attack of the Clones (2002), which is certainly not a major role, even if it means entering in the always interesting George Lucas wheel . The fact is that the same year she directed the actor Matt Dillon in the somewhat thick film The city of ghosts .

2004 was a year of progress. She was in Obsession (2004) , a remake of the French film Flash-Back, where she was accompanied by Josh Harnett and Diane Kruger . She and she were in Wolfgang Petersen ‘s epic film Troy , along with Brad Pitt himself , assuming the role of Briseis, Achilles’ slave, loved by him tenderly. In 2006 Sofia Coppola directed her in the interesting Marie Antoinette .

The British Danny Boyle trusted her doubly in 2007, for the zombie movie 28 weeks later – he was the producer of the sequel to his film 28 days later , directed by the Spanish Juan Carlos Fresnadillo – and for Sunshine. Precisely this film where they plan issues such as the origin and end of the world helped the actress to talk about her religious beliefs: Rose stated that her mother was an atheist, and her father an agnostic, and that she also felt agnostic: “The fact that being here is a kind of miracle. Is it pure chance? And if it is, is that the miracle? I think there are a number of chemical accidents. It’s the kind of thing I’ve chosen to believe. Maybe because I’m not religious, ”she explained simply in BlackBook Magazine. And she added: “I think the fact that there are so many different religions in the world makes me immediately suspicious. How can you know which one is good?”

Although Byrne’s aforementioned works meant gradually climbing the acting ladder, nothing raised her as much as her role as a young lawyer in Damages (2007), an intriguing television series where she was seen with the Machiavellian character of Glen Close. Although the small screen kept her quite busy, she still managed to land interesting roles in the romantic comedy Adam (2009) and in, oddly enough, a destiny movie, Signs of the Future (2009).

In any case, the signs of the future of this actress seem magnificent. She has been in the low-budget horror movie Insidious (2010), whose impact has been quite a surprise. And she has turned to wild comedy with a certain impact with Todo sobre mi desmadre (2010) and, above all, My Best Friend’s Wedding (2011), defined as a kind of Hangover in Las Vegas in a female key; And speaking of weddings, this hasn’t happened in Byrne’s personal life, as her relationship of more than six years with filmmaker Brendan Cowell ended in 2010.

Rose has just been with the mutants in X-Men: First Class (2011), a film that many have come to describe as the best movie based on Marvel superhero characters. This is Dr. Moira MacTaggart, an authority on genetic mutations.