Melanie Jayne Lynskey

Melanie Jayne Lynskey was born on May 16, 1977, in New Zealand. She is known for her funny, soft-spoken and powerful characters. She works mostly in independent films. Her nominations include: the New Zealand Film Award. A Hollywood Film Award. Sundance Special Jury Award. Gotham Award. Golden Nymph Award. Critics' Choice Award. Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Lynskey's debut in a film was as the teenage murderer in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). After making the move to the United States in 1994, Lynskey began a successful career acting in supporting roles in a number of big-budget and smaller-scale films. These include Ever After (1998) and Detroit Rock City and But I'm a Cherleader (both 1999), Coyote Ugly (2000), Abandon and Sweet Home Alabama (1902), Shattered Glass (2003) and Flags of Our Fathers (2006). Lynskey received a nomination for the Gotham Award as Breakthrough Performer and received critical acclaim for her role as a divorced, depressed woman in The Goodbye I Must be Going (2012). It was a pivotal point in her career. Subsequent lead roles in Happy Christmas, We'll Never Have Paris, Goodbye to All That (all 2014), The Intervention, Rainbow Time, Little Boxes (all 2016), I Don't Feel at In This World Anymore, And Then I Go (both 2017), Sadie (2018) and Lady of the Manor (2021) have established her as a prominent figure in the American independent film scene. Lynskey is also well-known for her portrayal of Rose in the television series Two and a Half Men (2003-2015). From 2015 until the year 2016, she played Michelle Pierson on the HBO series Togetherness that she was nominated for the 2015 Critics Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. She voiced Beatrice for the Cartoon Network's Over the Garden Wall (2014) and Megan for Disney XD's Future-Worm! (2016-2018). She was also the star in Molly Strand, the first season of Hulu's Castle Rock (2018). Rosemary Thomson starred in Mrs. America on FX (2020).



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