Rose McGowan Profile -
Name : Rose McGowan
Birth date : September 5, 1973
Birth place : Florence, Italy
Height : 5' 3''
Nationality : Italian
Profession : Actress, model
Rose McGowan Detailed Biography -
Her first acting opportunity was in 1992's Encino Man. After that, she waited another three years before being in another movie. Her next film was Gregg Araki's Doom Generation. Araki had met her outside a gym while she was in LA to attend arts school, and he decided to cast her in his Sundance entry. Although much of Rose's fame has come from her more commercial films like Biodome and Scream, most of her roles have been in independant films. While McGowan enjoys making movies, her first love is traditional art. Rather than creatin art (like her father), she would rather be a curator and revive museums. She feels that museums have become unfriendly to younger people, and dreams of opening them up so that the average person can connect with them.
Rose McGowan Trivia -
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She was nominated for a 1996 Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for her role as Amy Blue in THE DOOM GENERATION.
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Blood red lipstick is her trademark.
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Most of her boyfriends have been Jewish.
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She was auditioned for the role of Lisa in GIRL, INTERRUPTED (1999).
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She got the role of Amy Blue, in THE DOOM GENERATION, after Jordan Ladd pulled out.
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She was a child model in Italy.
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Mother is French and father is Irish.
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WB announced that McGowan will be playing the new sister Paige Halliwell, on the TV series CHARMED. McGowen fills a space vacated by the departing Shannon Doherty, whose character, Prue Halliwell, has been killed off. (June 2001)
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Told Howard Stern that she broke up with Marilyn Manson because she tired of the rock and roll lifestyle he engaged in.
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When pressed further, she admitted that drug use was a big part of that lifestyle. (October 2001)
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She has a tattoo of a pin-up girl on her right shoulder.
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She knits, gardens, and collects Marlene Dietrich memorabilia.
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Is set to make a return to movie screens - as a high-priced hooker.
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In June 2001, Executive Producer of CHARMED (1998), Aaron Spelling announced Rose McGowan to play the part of Paige Halliwell, the long lost younger sister of Prue, Piper and Phoebe.
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Her fiancé, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, has a cameo appearance in JAWBREAKER (1999).
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Dyed her hair blonde in order to contrast her black hair from Neve Campbell's in SCREAM (1996)
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Was raised in a cult her father ran in Italy called the Children of God Cult.
Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973) is an American actress best known for her role as Paige Matthews in The WB television series Charmed and the cult-classic The Doom Generation. She has also appeared in several major Hollywood films, with leading roles in Scream, Jawbreaker and the Quentin Tarantino / Robert Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse.
McGowan is the second-eldest of six children (plus two half-siblings), born in Florence, Italy to Terri, an American writer of French descent, and Daniel McGowan, an Irish-born artist. Daniel McGowan ran an Italian chapter of the Children of God to which both he and his wife held membership until 1978. McGowan spent her early childhood amid the group's communes, often traveling Europe with her parents. Through her father's art contacts in Italy, McGowan became a child model and appeared in Vogue Bambini and various other Italian magazines. Her parents returned to the United States in 1979 and divorced when McGowan was 10. She subsequently relocated to Oregon and then Gig Harbor, Washington where she also met childhood friend actor Rey-Phillip Santos. McGowan did not speak English until she moved to the U.S.
McGowan's formative years were spent with her father in Seattle, Washington attending Roosevelt High School and Nova Alternative High School. At the age of 16, McGowan officially emancipated herself from her parents. She pursued a possible career in the film industry during her late teens, and also enrolled in a beauty school as a back-up.
McGowan made her first appearance in a Hollywood film with a bit role in the 1992 Pauly Shore comedy Encino Man. Her role in the 1995 black comedy, The Doom Generation, brought her to the attention of film critics, and she received a nomination for "Best Debut Performance" at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. McGowan was subsequently cast as Tatum Riley, the best friend of Neve Campbell's character Sidney, in the 1996 hit horror film Scream.
McGowan spent the majority of the 1990s appearing in low-budget and independent films, including roles in Southie, Going All the Way and Lewis & Clark & George. She appeared in the critically-acclaimed short Seed, directed by San Francisco-born filmmaker Karin Thayer, in 1997, and played opposite Peter O'Toole in the 1998 film adaptation of the Dean Koontz novel Phantoms. Notably, McGowan also starred in the 1999 comedy/drama Jawbreaker, where she played a high school student who tries to cover up a classmate's murder. That role earned McGowan a nomination for Best Villain at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards.
In 2001, McGowan was cast as Paige Matthews in the popular WB television series Charmed, as a replacement lead actress after Shannen Doherty's dismissal from the show. She was offered to be a producer after the seventh season, but turned it down. The series ended its run on May 21, 2006.
In May 2005, McGowan portrayed actress/singer Ann-Margret in Elvis, a Golden Globe-winning CBS mini-series about the life of Elvis Presley. That same year, she lent her voice to the video game Darkwatch as a femme fatale named Tala. The game was published by Capcom for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
In 2006, McGowan had a brief role in Brian De Palma's Academy Award-nominated film The Black Dahlia. The following year, she starred in the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse, released on April 6, 2007. Cast in utterly divergent roles, McGowan appears in both portions of the film, as dark brunette, go-go dancing Cherry in Planet Terror, and as blonde, girlish Pam in Death Proof. McGowan attended the 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival to promote Death Proof along with Robert Rodriguez, Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, Zoe Bell, and Quentin Tarantino.
According to Variety, McGowan has signed on to play the tragic B-movie staple Susan Cabot in the upcoming film Black Oasis. Director Stephan Elliott (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) has penned and will direct the film based on a Premiere magazine article by John H. Richardson. Shooting will begin fall 2007.
During a press junket to promote Grindhouse, when asked whether rumors were true that McGowan would appear in the upcoming Sin City 2, a smile was the only reply. Although recent reports claim McGowan would be cast in Robert Rodriguez's upcoming Barbarella remake, no official confirmation has been reported.
