My Favorite Celebrities: Rose Byrne

Mary Rose Byrne (born 24 July 1979) is an Australian actress. Byrne made her screen debut in 1994 with a small role in the film Dallas Doll. In 2000, she played a leading role in the Australian film The Goddess of 1967, which brought her a Venice Film Festival award for Best Actress. From 2007 to 2012, she played Ellen Parsons in the cable television series Damages, which earned her two Golden Globe and two Emmy nominations. Along with co-star Glenn Close, she appeared in all of the show’s fifty-nine episodes. Byrne has also starred in the films Troy, 28 Weeks Later, Insidious, X-Men: First Class, as well as the comedies Bridesmaids, Neighbors and Spy. Wikipedia®.

My Favorite Celebrities: Rose Byrne

It has been announced that actress Rose Byrne will return to reprise her role of Moira MacTaggert in the upcoming X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Byrne first played MacTaggert in the 2011 film X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. APOCALYPSE writer Simon Kinberg said the following: “(she’s) a significant character in the movie. We ended First Class with Charles having wiped portions of her memory of her experience with the X-Men. They are, essentially, strangers to her when she meets them. It’s certainly a rich relationship that we started to dig into in First Class, and would like to mine more in this one.”

My Favorite Celebrities: Rose Byrne
My Favorite Celebrities: Rose Byrne

Byrne was the face of Max Factor between 2004 and 2009 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. In 2014, Byrne became the face of Oroton, the Australian producer of luxury fashion accessories.

My Favorite Celebrities: Rose Byrne

Rose Byrne played the handmaiden Dormé in Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. She was discovered by Robin Gurland, the casting director for Attack of the Clones, while she was performing with Leeanna Walsman (Zam Wesell) in the play La Dispute for the Sydney Theatre Company. “What really helped me get into the character of Dormé was definitely her costume. It was so regal that it made me walk and behave very differently than a twenty-two-year-old Sydney girl. Her entire role really is to support Amidala, and her safety is Dormé’s top priority. That helped give me focus.” – Rose Byrne.

This Is Where I Leave You as Penny Moore
This Is Where I Leave You as Penny Moore

Bryrne told MTV that Moira will have several “cool looks” in X-Men: Apocalypse, and also commented on her overall interest in ‘80s fashion. Said Byrne: I like the ‘80s.’ There’s the high pant. I’ve got a bit of a great high pant thing happening. I like a strong shoulder. I’m not a fan of the weird negligee under the blouse look.

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She is insecure about her acting. Byrne revealed in a post-award interview that, prior to winning the Venice Film Festival award, she was surprised by her own performance and found it confronting watching the film because her acting was “too depressing”. Byrne admitted that “watching myself is confronting because I’m convinced I can’t act and I want to get out, that’s how insecure I am.”

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Read Kinberg’s full quote: “She’s a significant character in the movie. We ended ‘First Class’ with Charles having wiped portions of her memory of her experience with the X-Men. They are, essentially, strangers to her when she meets them… It’s certainly a rich relationship that we started to dig into in ‘First Class’, and would like to mine more in this one.”

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Acting
2016 X-Men: Apocalypse as Moira MacTaggert
2016 Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising as Kelly Radner
2015 Unity as Herself – Narrator (voice)
2015 Spy – Susan Cooper undercover as Raina Boyanov
2015 Adult Beginners as Justine
2014 Annie as Grace Farell
2014 This Is Where I Leave You as Penny Moore
2014 Bad Neighbors as Kelly Radner
2013 The Turning as Rae
2013 Insidious: Chapter 2 as Renai Lambert
2013 Prakti.com as Lyle
2013 I Give It a Year as Nat
2012 The Place Beyond the Pines as Jennifer
2011 X-Men: First Class as Moira MacTaggert
2011 Bridesmaids as Helen
2010 Insidious as Renai Lambert
2010 Get Him to the Greek as Jackie Q
2009 Adam as Beth Buchwald
2009 Knowing as Diana Wayland
2009 The Justin Lee Collins Show – (1 episode)
2008 The Tender Hook as Iris
2007 Just Buried as Roberta Knickel
2007 Damages (59 episodes) as Ellen Parsons
2007 28 Weeks Later as Scarlet
2007 Sunshine as Cassie
2006 Dead Girl as Leah
2006 Marie Antoinette as Duchesse de Polignac
2005 Casanova – (3 episodes) as Edith
2005 Casanova as Edith
2005 The Tenants as Irene Bell
2004 Wicker Park as Alex
2004 Troy as Briseis
2003 The Night We Called It a Day as Audrey Appleby
2003 Take Away as Sonja Stilano
2003 The Rage in Placid Lake as Gemma Taylor
2003 I Capture the Castle as Rose Mortmain
2002 Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones as Dormé
2002 City of Ghosts
2000 The Goddess of 1967 as B.G.
2000 My Mother Frank as Jenny
1999 Rove – (1 episode)
1999 Two Hands as Alex
1997 Murder Call – (1 episode)
1997 Big Sky – (1 episode)
1995 Echo Point – (130 episodes) as Belinda O’Connor
1994 Dallas Doll as Rastus Sommers
1994 Heartbreak High – (1 episode)
1993 Late Night with Conan O’Brien – (2 episodes)

My Favorite Celebrities: Rose Byrne