Rose McGowan

Rósa Arianna McGowan, born September 5, 1973, is an American actress and activist. She achieved recognition in the dark comedy film The Doom Generation (1995) before making her career breakthrough in the horror film Scream (1996). McGowan subsequently headlined films such as Going All the Way (1997), Devil in the Flesh (1998), and Jawbreaker (1999). During the 2000s, she became widely known to television audiences for portraying Paige Matthews in the supernatural drama series Charmed (2001–2006). She also starred in the double-feature film Grindhouse (2007). In 2017, Time recognized McGowan as one of the Silence Breakers, the Person of the Year, for speaking out against sexual assault and harassment regarding the Harvey Weinstein abuse cases and the MeToo movement.

McGowan was born in Florence, Italy, to Irish artist Daniel McGowan and American writer Terri. Her father ran an Italian chapter of the Children of God group, where McGowan spent her early childhood living in communes and traveling Europe. Through her father's art contacts, she worked as a child model, appearing in Vogue Bambini and other Italian magazines. Her family relocated to Eugene, Oregon, when she was ten. McGowan later lived as a teenage runaway in Portland, Oregon. Following her parents' divorce, she lived with her father in Seattle, Washington, attending Roosevelt High School and Nova Alternative High School while working at McDonald's. She emancipated herself at age 15 and moved to Los Angeles.

Following her brief film debut in Encino Man (1992), McGowan earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation (1995). She achieved wide public recognition in Scream (1996) and went on to headline late-1990s independent films, including Nowhere (1997), Going All the Way (1997), Lewis and Clark and George (1997), Southie (1996), Phantoms (1998), and Devil in the Flesh (1998). In 1999, she portrayed Courtney Shayne in Jawbreaker, earning an MTV Movie Award nomination. During this period, she modeled for Bebe, appeared on the album cover Shots in the Dark, and contributed vocals to Marilyn Manson's album Mechanical Animals.

From 2001 to 2006, McGowan starred as Paige Matthews on Charmed, winning Favorite Sister at the 2005 Family Television Awards. Her 2000s film and television credits include Monkeybone (2001), the CBS miniseries Elvis (2005), and Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia (2006). In 2007, she starred in the double-feature Grindhouse, earning a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently appeared in Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008), took a recurring role on Nip/Tuck, and co-hosted TCM's program The Essentials.

In the 2010s, McGowan appeared in films such as Dead Awake (2010), Conan the Barbarian (2011), Rosewood Lane (2011), and The Sound (2017). Her television credits included The Pastor's Wife (2011), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Once Upon a Time, and Chosen. She made her directorial debut with the short film Dawn at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. McGowan released her debut single "RM486" in 2015. In 2018, she published her memoir Brave, starred in the documentary series Citizen Rose, and appeared in the art film Indecision IV. She has also expressed interest in recording her own music album.