Rose Byrne Wallpaper, Photos, and Pictures

February 23, 2012

Mary Rose Byrne (born 24 July 1979) is an Australian actress. Her films include 28 Weeks Later, Sunshine, Troy, Knowing, Marie Antoinette, Get Him to the Greek and Bridesmaids. She plays one of the two main protagonists in the U.S. television series Damages as Ellen Parsons, opposite Glenn Close. Her role in Damages has earned her two Golden Globe nominatons and two Emmy nominations.

Rose Byrne was born in Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, of Irish and Scottish descent. She is the daughter of Jane, a primary school administrator, and Robin Byrne, a semi-retired statistician and market researcher.[2] She is the youngest of their four children; she has an older brother, George, and two older sisters, Alice and Lucy. Both of her parents are atheists, and she describes herself as agnostic.[3] Byrne attended Balmain Public School and Hunters Hill High School before attending Bradfield Senior College in Crows Nest. She began taking acting classes at age eight, joining the Australian Theatre for Young People and later attended the University of Sydney. In 1999, Byrne studied acting at the Atlantic Theatre Company developed by David Mamet and William H. Macy.