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Rose is #5 in AIM's "50 Hottest Redheads".
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Rose is ranked #8 in the "100 Hottest Brunettes of AIM".
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Rose was ranked #6 in Femme Fatale's 50 Sexiest Women in 2003.
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Despite saying that she wasn't eager to jump into another TV series after the end of Charmed, it was announced in May 2008 that Rose had signed on to lead the cast of a proposed TV series entitled Women In Chains!, to be produced by Robert Rodriguez.
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In November 2007 Rose was a guest programmer on cable channel Turner Classic Movies. This led to her role as co-host on the same channel's "The Essentials" in 2008.
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Rose ranked #44 in Maxim's 2007 Hot 100 List.
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Rose is officially engaged to director Robert Rodríguez.
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Rose owns approximately 97 pairs of shoes.
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In March 2007, Rose broke three of her toes after she walked into a door.
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In early 2007, Rose's glasses were crushed into her face after an airbag in a car deployed. She had to receive emergency plastic surgery to repair her eyelids.
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Rose took her dog, Fester, to the set of Charmed in Season Eight. Fester was soon joined by the pets of cast member Alyssa Milano, and other crew members.
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Rose was one of the presenters of "The Scream Awards 2006".
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One of Rose's favorite episodes in Charmed was Charmed Noir, as she loves anything from the 40's time period, which was what the episode was based around.
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Rose is mentioned in Dave Navarro's book "Don't Try This At Home". It features pictures of her alone and also with her ex, rock musician Marilyn Manson.
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Rose and Rebecca Gayheart both feature on the front cover of "Film-Fest DVD: Issue 1 - Sundance".
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Rose admires: Sophia Loren, Ralph Fiennes, Susan Sarandon, Linda Fiorentino, Clara Bow, Elizabeth Taylor, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Jessica Lange and Ava Gardner.
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Rose suffered from agoraphobia (an abnormal fear of open or public places) and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; a type of anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, persistent and unwanted thoughts or ritualistic behaviors that a person feels driven to perform).
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When the future of
Charmed was still uncertain, Rose was the first of the three leads to confirm she would not continue with the show if The CW wanted a ninth season. Co-stars
Holly Marie Combs and
Alyssa Milano eventually followed suit.
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In 2005, Rose was offered the chance to become one of
Charmed's executive producers, following in the footsteps of co-stars
Holly Marie Combs and
Alyssa Milano. When she discovered that becoming a producer would not increase her wages in any way, she turned down the offer.
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Rose is good friends with director
Quentin Tarantino, and the two are frequently seen at parties together.
Grindhouse is the first project they have both worked on.
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Rose sometimes feels that her acting career cannot compare in importance to the careers of her two sisters: Ava is a history teacher and Daisy is a scientist.
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Rose did all her own stunts in the movie Scream.
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Rose says she will miss the crew of
Charmed the most.
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Rose gets bored easily with many of her acting roles.
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Rose dreams of being a museum curator.
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The tabloid press have reported that she has dated both
Friends star
Matthew Perry and actor
George Clooney. In truth, she has never met Perry, whilst the so-called pictures revealing her relationship with Clooney were taken at an awards show where Rose was talking to him about his father
Nick, who presented the documentary series American Movie Classics for five years in the late 1990's.
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Rose frequently bases her "look" on the style of stars from the 1940's, stating that Marlene Dietrich and Ava Gardner are her "style icons."
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Rose is one of only three actors who appear in both segments of Grindhouse. In the Robert Rodriguez-directed segment Planet Terror, she plays a go-go dancer called Cherry Darling who battles a plague of zombies, before playing the character of Pam, a trusting young woman, in the Quentin Tarantino-directed segment Death Proof.
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Rose joined
Charmed in order to raise her profile around the world, since many directors turned her down for movie roles due to her lack of international fame.
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Rose was personally called up by director Brian De Palma to appear in his movie The Black Dahlia. Flying to Romania to film her scenes, she and De Palma struck up a friendship after they bonded over their love for the movies and style of the 1940's.
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In 1999, Rose appeared in the short film Sleeping Beauties, in which she had no dialogue and was lying down for the entire duration of the movie.
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Like many actresses, Rose has a very slight figure. She weighs in at just 93 pounds.
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Her dog Fester was named after Uncle Fester on The Addams Family.
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Rose can read a book in less then 3 hours.
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Rose loves singing karaoke to Pasty Cline.
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Rose was considered a loner in high school. She wore black and spent most of her time in the library.
When Rose was 14, she was sent to a drug rehab center because of her appearance, even though she wasn't on drugs. She hated it, ran away and was homeless for a year.
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In April of 2007, the action doll Cherry of the character Rose played in the motion picture Grindhouse was released by NECA Toys.
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Rose had to cancel her appearance at The Witching Hour convention which took place on the 14th to the 16th of July 2006 because her schedule wouldn't allow her enough time off to be able to go.
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Rose's bust size is 36C.
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In June 2001, the WB network announced that Rose would be playing Paige Matthews, the long-lost, baby half-sister of Prue, Piper and Phoebe on the hit series
Charmed. She was cast after
Shannen Doherty, who played eldest sister Prue Halliwell, was fired when she refused to sign a two-year contract extension.
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In the movie Strange Hearts (also known as Roads to Riches) Rose sang Protection.
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Rose was born on the same day as Alexandra Kerry, daughter of Senator John Kerry.
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Rose attended high school with Nicole Berger.
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She knits, gardens, and collects Marlene Dietrich memorabilia.
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Rose's height is 5'5" (1.65 m).
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Rose's mother, Terri, was a writer, but she now works for Microsoft. Her father, Daniel, is an artist. Her parents divorced by the time she was 10 and she went to live with grandmother in Washington. Rose has two brothers, two sisters and two half siblings.
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On February 22, 2006, Rose McGowan appeared at UC Irvine to help raise awareness and confront myths about sexual assault on college campuses across the nation. Rose courageously shed her Hollywood image to have a "real talk" with students about the ways that they are affected by alcohol and sexual violence. The event was free and open to the public.
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She was engaged to shock-rocker
Marilyn Manson (aka Brian Warner) in 1999 but broke it off in early 2001. She dated actor
Kip Pardue(who met her on the set of the movie
Strange Hearts) in 2001 and
Ahmet Zappa (who met her on the set of
Ready to Rumble) from 2001 till 2002. She has since been involved in an on/off relationship with Men's Health Magazine editor David Zinczenko since 2002. She has also been romantically linked with actors
Ryan Phillippe and
Matthew Lillard, but both relationships have neither been confirmed or denied. As of May 2008, she is currently engaged to her
Grindhouse director
Robert Rodriguez.
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Rose gained a reputation for playing brassy, violent characters. One particularly violent film was Devil In The Flesh where she played a serial murderer and stalker while still only in high school. One especially violent scene showed her beating her grandmother to death with her own cane.
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Rose thinks of her self as the 'ditzy' one out of her fellow cast members in
Charmed. She says she always falls over when acting but also by accident. She also admits to doing clumsy things on set.
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At age 15, Rose left to live on her own, legally emancipated, supporting herself with several odd jobs, often having to lie about her age. Living on her own meant being forced to live on the streets for a short time, but despite this she later attended art and beauty school before heading to Los Angeles where she was found outside a gym because thought it was "too corny" and had a chance encounter with independent film director Gregg Araki. Her performance in Araki's dark road movie earned her a nomination for Best Newcomer at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards.
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Rose was a child model, for Vogue Bambini and other Italian magazines from age three, but did not start acting until she was in her teen years.
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Rose adores British pop music.
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Rose has been a victim of sexual assault, which has led to discussions on the subject among campus groups.
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Rose has dictionaries in Italian, French, and German. Though she cannot speak all these languages she wants to have the resources to do this.
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Rose's favorite comedy series was Bewitched and the role of Samantha was one she dreamed of playing.
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Rose hates having to use the word "vanquish" on
Charmed.
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Rose once had a crush on Jason Priestley who starred in Beverly Hills 90210.
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Rose adores red lipstick.
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Rose dislikes traveling on trains and so going to London was something of a challenge for her.
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The first episode of
Charmed that Rose starred in managed to pull in 6.0 million viewers.
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Rose revealed that she still goes to her ex boyfriend's concerts: "What can I say? I'm a groupie but without the sex."
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Rose loves the smell after it rains.
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Rose finds men in uniform attractive.
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Rose has no desire to have children, her dogs are enough for her!
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Rose was ranked #17 as one of the sexiest women in the world.
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When Rose was growing up she had three dogs, two birds, four rats and two rabbits.
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In 1997, she had the distinction of starring in four films appearing at the Sundance Film Festival: Going All the Way, Lewis & Clark & George, a cameo role in Nowhere and the short film Seed.
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Rose's favorite season is winter as this is when her pale skin looks the best.
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Rose has a habit of brushing her hair if she's worried.
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Rose does not have a personal relationship with her
Charmed co-stars; though she gets on well with both
Alyssa Milano and
Holly Marie Combs she does not feel the urge to befriend them. "After what happened with
Shannen I was slightly less quick to form relationships with the cast. I'm a lot closer to the crew than the girls though I think they're great".
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Rose tends to dislike fake blondes on the outset, "I don't know what it is but on first impressions they always seem really stupid."
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After Rose's arrival in the U.S. the future actress took a brief job at a McDonald's fast food restaurant. During her 5-day stint at the restaurant Rose became a vegetarian in protest of the non-vegetarian options at McDonald's. Her efforts were pointless however and Rose quit the job after just a week.
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Rose hated dressing up as a nymph and a goddess during Season 5 of
Charmed and disliked the fairytale style of the season. Rose prefers serious drama as she takes her work very seriously.
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Rose prefers e-mail to phoning, because she has the opportunity to think about her response.
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Rose was a misfit in high school and began hanging out in gay bars, where she said she felt accepted.
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Rose's favorite scary movie is Gaslight.
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Rose watched the movie Viva Las Vegas over and over in order to prepare her role for Ann-Margret in the mini-series Elvis.
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Rose has a tattoo of a Varga Girl on her shoulder.
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In October 2005, Rose was handcuffed and detained after a misunderstanding at a Hollywood party. Rose jokes, "If you need to be handcuffed, do it in a Dolce & Gabbana dress."
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Rose can be heard on the
Marilyn Manson song
Posthuman from the album
Mechanical Animals (1998). She repeats the lines "All that glitters is gold" three times.
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Rose attended high school with Rape of Lucrece director Nicole Berger.
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Rose landed the role of Tatum Riley in
Scream after
Melinda Clarke turned it down. Coincidentally, the two later worked together when she guest-starred on
Charmed in October 2002 as the evil Siren.
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Rose auditioned for the role of Lisa in Girl, Interrupted that eventually went to Angelina Jolie.
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Rose's natural hair color is auburn. She's had it dyed many times for her various roles,
Charmed in particular.
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Rose was ranked #39 in Stuff Magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" in 2002.
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Rose absolutely hates fish, and never eats sushi.
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Rose has no eyebrows; she shaved them off for Phantoms and they never grew back. She pencils them in and just recently they have began to appear again.
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Rose feels that her "ass dress" (which she wore to the 1998 MTV Movie Awards) is the prank that will never die.
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Rose was involved in a long-distance romance with magazine editor Dave Zinczenko, and regularly jetted between her home in Los Angeles and his New York to see him.
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Rose made $55,000 per episode in her early years of
Charmed, which was bumped up to $102,000 per episode from season seven onward.
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It is incorrectly rumored throughout the internet that Rose has a cameo in Scream 2 as an audience member during the screening of Stab.
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In March 2001 she dated Kip Pardue, her co-star in movies such as Roads to Riches and Vacuums.
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Rose sings in BT's song Superfabulous with Scott McCloud.
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Rose wrote a song which she sang in the film Strange Hearts called Protection.
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Rose never sunbathes!
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Rose was raised in a cult her father ran in Italy called the
Children of God. Actors
Joaquin and
River Phoenix were also raised in the cult. They were all forced to sing in the streets to raise money. She and her family fled the cult when Rose was aged 9, after allegations of sexual abuse involving minors came to light within the cult. Rose was not one of the abused, but her family quickly realized the type of people they were associated with.
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Rose dyed her hair blonde in order to contrast her black hair from
Neve Campbell's in the horror movie
Scream.
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In October 2001, Rose told
Howard Stern that she broke up with
Marilyn Manson because she was tired of the rock and roll lifestyle he engaged in. When pressed further, she admitted that drug use was a big part of that lifestyle.
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Blood red lipstick and a very light complexion are her trademarks.
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Rose was nominated for a 1999 MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for her role as Courtney Shayne in Jawbreaker.
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Rose was nominated for a 1996 Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for her role as Amy Blue in The Doom Generation.
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Rose is the only person who has ever attended the VMA's nude.
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Rose spends $50 every month to get her dogs' nails painted.