Rose Byrne

Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress whose career has moved steadily between Australian film and television, Hollywood studio pictures, independent drama, comedy, horror, and stage work. Born in Sydney on 24 July 1979, she began acting as a teenager and made her screen debut in the 1994 film Dallas Doll. Her early career included Australian screen roles that established her as a versatile performer before she reached wider international notice with The Goddess of 1967, for which she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival.

Byrne's transition into larger international productions came through a mix of supporting and leading parts. She appeared in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, then worked across historical drama, science fiction, and horror in films such as Troy, Marie Antoinette, Sunshine, 28 Weeks Later, Knowing, and the Insidious series. In Insidious and its sequels she played Renai Lambert, helping anchor one of the major supernatural-horror franchises of the 2010s and returning to the role in Insidious: The Red Door.

Comedy became one of Byrne's defining strengths. After Get Him to the Greek, she gained broad mainstream recognition as Helen Harris III in Bridesmaids, a performance that helped show how precisely she could play polished, competitive characters without losing comic timing. She followed with prominent roles in Neighbors, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, Spy, I Give It a Year, Instant Family, Like a Boss, and the Peter Rabbit films, often balancing dry wit with a grounded dramatic presence.