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Rose Byrne

  • Birthplace: Balmain, New South Wales, Australia
  • Birthday: July 24, 1979

Once hailed as “Audrey Hepburn with a darker edge,” actress Rose Byrne launched a successful film career in the United States after an auspicious showbiz beginning in television in her native Australia. Her pivotal role as Trojan princess Briseis in the epic “Troy” (2004) marked her first major exposure to American audiences, after which she lent her effusive charm to mainstream successes like “28 Days Later” (2007) and represented a promising new breed of young actor in the youthful thriller “Wicker Park” (2004) and a contempor…more

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Actor

Career Milestones

  • 2009

    Co-starred with Hugh Dancy, playing a woman who forms a bond with a man born with Asperger syndrome, in "Adam"

  • 2009

    Co-starred with Nicolas Cage in the sci-fi thriller, "Knowing"

  • 2009

    Nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series

  • 2007 to 0000

    Cast as Ellen Parsons, a young attorney in the FX legal drama, "Damages"; earned Golden Globe (2008) and Emmy (2009) nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

  • 2007

    Co-starred in the Danny Boyle produced, "28 Weeks Later"

Awards

  • 2000

    Venice Film Festival: Best Actress

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