Mary Rose Byrne was first seen in the 1994 Australian black comedy-drama film ‘Dallas Doll’ directed by Ann Turner. Following her debut, she went on to star in films like ‘Two Hands’ (1999), ‘My Mother Frank’ (2000), and ‘The Goddess of 1967’ (2000). In 2002, she portrayed ‘Dormé’ in the American epic space opera film ‘Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones’ directed by George Lucas. The film opened to a mixed reception but was a major commercial success, grossing over $653.8 million on a budget of $115 million. She next starred in films like ‘City of Ghosts’ (2002), ‘I Capture the Castle’ (2003), ‘The Night We Called It a Day’ (2003), ‘The Rage in Placid Lake’ (2003), and ‘Take Away’ (2003). In 2004, she played the role of ‘Briseis’ in the Wolfgang Petersen-directed American epic historical war film ‘Troy.’ Even though the film received a mixed response from critics, it managed to gross over $497.4 million on a budget of $175–185 million. She went on to star in films like ‘Wicker Park’ (2004), ‘The Tenants’ (2005), ‘Marie Antoinette’ (2006), ‘The Dead Girl’ (2006), ‘Sunshine’ (2007), and ‘28 Weeks Later’ (2007). In 2007, she joined the main cast of the American legal thriller television series ‘Damages’ as ‘Ellen Parsons.’ The series ran for 5 seasons and aired its final episode in 2012. Byrne also received several award nominations, including 2 ‘Primetime Emmy Award’ nominations, for her performance in the show.
She was next seen in films like ‘Just Buried’ (2008), ‘The Tender Hook’ (2008), ‘Knowing’ (2009), ‘Adam’ (2009), ‘Get Him to the Greek’ (2010), ‘Insidious’ (2010), and ‘Bridesmaids’ (2011). In 2011, she starred as ‘Moira MacTaggert’ in the American superhero film ‘X-Men: First Class’ directed by Matthew Vaughn. The film opened to a positive reception and was a financial success, grossing over $140–160 million on a budget of $353.6 million. She next appeared in films such as ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ (2012), ‘The Internship’ (2013), ‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ (2013), ‘Neighbors’ (2014), ‘This Is Where I Leave You’ (2014), ‘Annie’ (2014), ‘Spy’ (2015), ‘The Meddler’ (2015), ‘Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising’ (2016), ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ (2016), ‘I Love You, Daddy’ (2017), ‘Juliet, Naked’ (2018), ‘Peter Rabbit’ (2018), ‘I Am Mother’ (2019), ‘Irresistible’ (2020), and ‘Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway’ (2021). In 2021, she starred as ‘Sheila Rubin’ in the American comedy-drama television series ‘Physical’ created by Annie Weisman. The show was renewed for a third season in August 2022. Byrne last appeared in the limited documentary series ‘The Last Movie Stars’ in 2022.
Spy is about an unpretentious, desk-bound CIA analyst Susan Cooper, who actually is the unacknowledged backbone of many risky missions of the Agency. She supports the field agent by live-monitoring him, but when he gets removed from the scene, Cooper turns an undercover agent to track down Bulgarian arms dealer Rayna Boyanov and the nuclear device, to avert a worldwide disaster
The 5th movie in X-Men film series centres on the relationship of two very powerful mutants, Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr, as they join hands to prevent Sebastian Shaw, a dangerous mutant from starting a nuclear war. However, Eric has his own plan which causes a rift between the two friends.
En Sabah Nur, the first mutant worshipped as a god in ancient Egypt, wakes up thousands of years later and is extremely dissatisfied with the modern world. He recruits four powerful mutants, Storm, Psylocke, Angel and Magneto, to bring about Apocalypse to the world, which Professor Xavier and Mystique must prevent with the help of young recruits.
Annie’s life is in a mess – her bakery business has failed, her boyfriend has left her and she has to share her room with two not so likeable people. So when her best friend Lillian invites her to be the maid of honour at her wedding, she is happy. But then, she has a rival in the affluent and beautiful Helen who too considers Lillian as her BFF.
When Mort Altman passes away, his last wish makes his four grown-up children stay together for a week at their family-home. As the four siblings with totally different personalities, who are not much in touch, reconnect with each other amidst their spouses, exes and free-speaking mother, they come to terms with their past and present relationships, with support of their loved ones.
A loose adaptation of Homer's Iliad, the film follows the Trojan War, which emerged after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinced the Queen of Sparta, Helen, to leave her husband Menelaus, and come with him to Troy.
In this heartwarming comedy, a couple is motivated to pursue adoption through foster care system when they decide to start a family. Life becomes a roller coaster ride when they welcome three wild kids in their home. They need to raise, love, pamper and become parents to these kids who have no interest in being nurtured.
A sequel to the horrifically brilliant 28 Days Later, the movie depicts the attempts being made by NATO forces to create a safe zone in London. The story also sees Don getting infected and reintroducing the rage virus in the safe zone creating catastrophic events, which endangers everyone including his children Tammy and Andy.
Set in the year 2057, the film follows a group of astronauts on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun. Inspired by the films 2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris, the science fiction movie garnered several award nominations for its acting, directing, and production merits.
The story focuses on an advertising executive, who returns to Chicago after two years and while catching up with an old friend at a restaurant thinks that he has overheard the girl he was in love with. She vanished overnight from his life and now that he has heard her voice he is determined to find her. It soon becomes an obsession.
Josh and Renai move to a new house, looking forward to a fresh start. However, their lives turn upside down when their son falls into a coma mysteriously, and they start experiencing paranormal events in their house. Soon, it seems that there might be evil spirits lurking in the house, who wants to take their son away from them.
The second movie in Star Wars prequel trilogy has the former queen of Naboo, Padmé Amidala serving as the Senator in the Galactic Republic. When there is an assassination attempt on her, Obi-Wan Kenobi sets out to investigate the matter and discovers a massive army of clones. Meanwhile, Anakin Skywalker, while protecting Padme Amidala, falls in love with her.
After a young girl is murdered, the clues bring together several people who are seemingly unrelated.
Set in the French Revolution time-period, the film depicts the life of the iconic Queen of France. The Archduchess of Austria, a 14-year old Marie Antoinette is betrothed and then married to the Dauphin of France. The teenaged bride soon blooms to become the Queen of France and leads a life of opulence and luxury, only to face a doomed fate.
An awkward teenager Adam spends his high school summer with his older sister who is involved with New York City’s LGBT activism.
Soon after settling down in a quiet neighborhood with their infant child, Mac and Kelly Radner find out that the Delta Psi Beta fraternity has moved in next doors. The couple endures the fraternity's noisy parties for a while in order to appear cool, but is eventually forced to call the police, initiating a bitter conflict.
After losing their jobs, watch salesmen Billy and Nick manage to get into an internship program at Google where they must compete with young, tech-savvy college students for employment. They are grouped with three other sub-par interns and must learn to work together in order to win competitive team challenges against candidates who may not play fair.
Aaron Green, an employee of a record company facing recession, is given an assignment of escorting rock-star Aldous Snow from London to L.A.’s Greek Theater for a comeback concert. Green has only 72 hours to get the rock-legend, who has slipped back into drugs and wild ways after personal and professional crisis. How does Green achieve this to save his career?
In 1959, guided by mysterious voices, elementary school student Lucinda writes down the dates and death tolls of major catastrophes that would take place over the next fifty years. In 2009, 9-year-old Caleb finds her predictions and tries to prevent an upcoming catastrophe.
The Meddler is a romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of Marnie, an aging widow from New York City, who follows her daughter to Los Angeles, after her husband passes away. As she tries to get closer to her daughter, Lori, her daughter feels that her mother is unnecessarily interfering in her life.
Despite having no real interest in politics, Col. Jack Hastings eventually decides to run for mayor in his small conservative town. Gary Zimmer, a Democratic strategist, decides to help him.
Cassandra Mortmain is a 17 year old who lives with her eccentric family in poverty in a decaying English castle. Her father is a writer who hasn’t written anything for over a decade, since the success of his first novel. Meanwhile, her older sister Rose is hoping to find a rich guy to get out of their situation. Things take a turn with the arrival of a wealthy landlord named Simon Cotton. Eventually, a wedding is arranged between Rose and Simon, and in the meantime, Cassandra is confused regarding her feelings for Stephen, the son of their former chef.
Luke Glanton, a motorcycle-riding stuntman starts robbing banks to take care of his former lover Romina who has given birth to their son Jason. Unfortunately, he is killed by police officer Avery Cross in a failed robbery. Years later Avery’s son and Jason end up on a collision path when Jason discovers their shared legacy.
City of Ghosts is a crime drama thriller film which tells the story of Jimmy, a con man, who is forced to flee from the US, after a scam he was involved in, goes wrong. He begins to suspect that he may have been double-crossed by Marvin, his long-time partner and mentor. Therefore, he sets off to Cambodia, looking for Marvin, hoping to obtain his promised cut. However, he finds himself a hostile and mysterious environment, from which there might be no return.
Mac and Kelly are expecting their second child and are thus looking forward to sell their house and move into a new more spacious one. They have a buyer, but they also have a problem. Their neighbourhood house is occupied by a group of noisy sorority girls who might just scare away their prospective buyers. To prevent this from happening, they now have to join hands with ex enemy – Teddy.
Nat and Josh are a newly wed couple, but since they have a lot of differences, their family and friends predict that their marriage will not last. Things even get complicated further because of Josh’s ex-girlfriend and Nat’s good-looking client.
After going bankrupt, Jake, a narcissistic young entrepreneur moves in with his estranged sister and her husband Danny. He tries to mend his relationship with them, but he soon has to become a nanny for their three year old son.
Annie is a young girl, who has lived all her life in the foster care of a cruel woman named Miss Hannigan. However, when a New York mayoral candidate decides to adopt her, her life finally takes an interesting turn.
After some loot disappears, a 19 year old boy is forced to run from the gangsters who are after the money. Meanwhile, the loot is found by some street kids, who start a shopping spree.
I am Mother is a science fiction dystopian thriller film which takes us to a future where the human race has become extinct. In an automated bunker, a robot named Mother cares for a human child over several years. However, the young girl Daughter is not allowed to go into the outside world, as Mother claims that it is quite lethal and toxic. Daughter’s curiosity about the outside world continues to grow, and their lives take a turn when a woman appears outside the bunker and asks for assistance.
McGregor’s nephew Thomas moves into the family manor, but soon he is annoyed when he finds Peter Rabbit and his sisters in his vegetable garden. He thinks of a plan to get rid of them all.
Peter Rabbit decides to run away from his human family upon learning that he is going to be portrayed negatively in their book. His life soon takes a turn when he meets an older rabbit.
Rose Byrne Awards
| Neighbors | Best WTF Moment | 2015 |
| Bridesmaids | Best Gut-Wrenching Performance | 2012 |
