Melanie Jayne Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey, born 16 May 1977
is a New Zealand actress. She is renowned for her quirky, soft-spoken but
headstrong characters, and works predominantly in films that are independent.
Her accolades include a New Zealand Film Award, an Hollywood Film Award and a
Sundance Special Jury Award, in addition to Gotham Award, Golden Nymph Award
Critics' Choice Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Lynskey made
her film debut as a teenage murderess in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures
(1994). After moving to the United States in 1994, Lynskey launched a
successful career performing supporting roles in a number of big-budget and
smaller-scale productions, including 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 was nominated for the Gotham Award as Breakthrough Performer and
received critical acclaim for her performance as a depressed divorcée in The
Goodbye I Must be Going (2012). This was a pivotal point in her professional
career. She is a prominent actor in the American independent film industry due
to her later performances in Happy Christmas. We'll Never Have Paris. Goodbye
To All That (all 2014), The Intervention. Rainbow Time. Little Boxes. I Don't
feel at Home in This World. And Then I go. Lady of the Manor. (2021). Lynskey
is also well-known for her character of Rose on Two and a Half Men (2003-2015).
She was a part of Togetherness from 2015 to 2016. In the course of her role,
she was nominated for the 2015 Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best
Supporting Actress. She provided the voices of Beatrice for Cartoon Network's
Over the Garden Wall (2014) and Megan for Disney XD's Future-Worm! (2016-2018).
She also starred as the main character in Molly Strand, the first season Hulu's
Castle Rock (2018). Rosemary Thomson starred in Mrs. America on FX (2020).
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