Name: Rose Judith Esther
Byrne
Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birthday: 24 July 1979
Age: 27
Height: 5’6¼" (1.68 m)
Location: Home is Australia, but owns a home in London and house-sits in
Los Feliz (Los Angeles)
Parents: father is in market research and mother in the principal of an
aboriginal school
Siblings: youngest of four
Lucy (+7 years) works in publishing; Rose and she own a house in London borough
Hackney
Alice (+5 years) is a painter in Melbourne
George (+3 years) is a singer/songwriter in Sydney
SO: Dated fellow Australian actor/writer Brendan Cowell 2004-2005, but
broke up during the filming Troy and Wicker Park. Long-distance seemed to be the
major factor in the break-up, but they have since gotten back together and are
currently dating (as of Jan. 2007)
Best friend: fellow Australian actress Nadia Townsend (since they were eight)-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
2000 she won a Volpi Cup at the Venice Film
Festival for best actress in The Goddess of 1967

Random Facts
Once punched a man because he didn’t want to
kiss her (she was drunk at the time and has since apologised more than once,
though she didn’t regret throwing the right-hook)
Starred in Darren Hayes’s music video ‘I Miss You’.
Starred in M.Craft’s music video ‘Sweets’.
Is of Irish and Scottish descent
Ranked #16 on FHM’s Sexiest women in the world, Australian
edition. (2006)
She and her Marie Antoinette director, Sophia Coppola, both
played handmaidens in the Star Wars prequels. Sophia Coppola appeared in Episode
I, Byrne in Episode II.
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