Rose McGowanFilmography

Born:: September 5, 1973 in Florence, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Appearing as a cross between Betty Boop's evil sister and a very curvaceous Hell's Angel, actress Rose McGowan made an undeniably distinct impression on Hollywood in the late '90s. With her sharp tongue and brash sensuality, McGowan has been a source of both titillation and discomfort to an...Read More

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Red Sonja

Actors: Rose McGowan

Synopsis: Rose McGowan steps into the boots of Robert E. Howard's female warrior character, Red Sonja, in this Nu Image/Millennium Films production. Robert Rodriguez handles producing duties in this revamp of the barbarian babe whose tale was last seen on the screen in 1985's tongue-in-cheek outing starring Brigitte Neilsen Read More

1/1/10
Fifty Dead Men Walking

Actors: Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Kevin Zegers, Natalie Press, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: Loosely based on the remarkable true story of the British undercover agent who successfully infiltrated the IRA, writer/director Kari Skogland's thriller takes its title from author Martin McGartland's best-selling book of the same name. Set at the absolute height of the Irish civil conflict Read More

8/21/09
Black Oasis

Actors: Rose McGowan, Rodrigo Santoro

Synopsis: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert writer/director Stephan Elliot examines the curious life and gruesome death of B-movie icon Susan Cabot, a favorite of producer Roger Corman and the star of such features as Machine Gun Kelly and The Wasp Woman. Inspired by writer John H. Richardson's article in Read More

1/1/09
Grindhouse

Actors: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey, Michael Biehn, Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Tracie Thoms, Zoe Bell, Vanessa Ferlito, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Synopsis: Kill Bill director Quentin Tarantino and Sin City director Robert Rodriguez join forces to offer a cinematic tribute to the blood-soaked exploitation epics of yesteryear with this hyper-violent coupling of two full-length features punctuated by a collection of outrageous trailers. The first Read More

4/6/07
Death Proof

Actors: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: In Death Proof -- director Tarantino's take on such peddle-to-the-metal shockers as White Line Fever -- Kurt Russell stars as an engine-revving psychopath who prefers to take out his beautiful victims at 200 mph. Originally released into theaters on a double bill with Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror Read More

4/6/07
Planet Terror

Actors: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey

Synopsis: Maverick filmmaker Robert Rodriguez details the violent struggle between a ravenous army of zombie-like humanoids who have taken control of the planet and the remaining survivors who refuse to go down without a fight. A dangerous government experiment has unleashed an abominable contamination that Read More

4/6/07
The Black Dahlia

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner

Synopsis: Director Brian De Palma returns to the helm for the first time since 2002's Femme Fatale with this stylish screen adaptation of James Ellroy's novel detailing one of the most notorious unsolved murders in Hollywood history. Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner) was a struggling actress looking to make a Read More

9/15/06
Elvis

Actors: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Camryn Manheim, Randy Quaid, Rose McGowan, Robert Patrick

Synopsis: Seven years after playing the David Bowie-esque glam rocker in Velvet Goldmine, actor Jonathan Rhys-Meyers tackles the role of the biggest rock-and-roller of all time -- The King -- in this television miniseries. CBS' Elvis traces Elvis Presley's rise from being a humble, poor kid in early-'50s Read More

2005
Charmed: Season 05

Actors: Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: As season five of Charmed begins, Piper's sister Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) has at last landed a steady job as a newspaper advice columnist (with Rebecca Balding joining the cast in the recurring role of Phoebe's boss, Elise), and has started divorce proceeding against her husband, Cole (Julian McMahon Read More

2002
Monkeybone

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Kattan

Synopsis: This feverishly energetic comedy combines stop-motion animation and live action from director Henry Selick, creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and James and the Giant Peach (1996). Brendan Fraser stars as Stu Miley, a cartoonist who created a randy monkey character called Monkeybone Read More

2/23/01
Charmed: A Knight to Remember

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Rose McGowan, Charlie Weber, Jesse Woodrow

Synopsis: Series regular Rose McGowan plays a dual role in this episode. Trying out her conjuring skills, Paige (McGowan) brings to life a medieval prince (Charlie Weber) -- who immediately declares his love for her. It turns out that the prince is in the thrall of an evil enchantress...whom Paige had been Read More

2001
The Killing Yard

Actors: Morris Chestnut, Alan Alda, Rose McGowan, Arthur Holden, Robert Kennedy

Synopsis: Noted filmmaker Euzhan Palcy, who made a name for herself by directing a series of socially minded films about racism and oppression -- including Sugar Cane Alley and A Dry White Season -- continues in the same vein with this gritty courtroom drama about the bloodshed and the coverup of the Attica Read More

2001
Roads to Riches

Actors: Robert Forster, Rose McGowan, Kip Pardue

Synopsis: A pair of mismatched, down-and-out L.A. misfits find that their luck is about to change -- thanks to a charismatic, oblivious young buck from the Lone Star state -- in this psychological drama. Robert Forster plays Jack Waters, a con man whose best days are behind him when Henry (Kip Pardue) steps Read More

2001
Ready to Rumble

Actors: David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, Bill Goldberg, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: A pair of sewage-truck drivers attempt to rescue the tarnished reputation of their favorite pro wrestler in this comedy from Varsity Blues director Brian Robbins. Gordie Boggs (David Arquette) and Sean Dawkins (Scott Caan) live vicariously through superstar grappler Jimmy King (Oliver Platt). But Read More

4/7/00
The Last Stop

Actors: Adam Beach, Jürgen Prochnow, Rose McGowan, Callum Keith Rennie

Synopsis: In this claustrophobic thriller, Jason (Adam Beach) is a State Trooper who has found himself stranded in a cabin in the Colorado Rockies when a severe snowstorm hits the area. Waiting out the storm with Jason are his former girlfriend Nancy (Rose McGowan), the owner of the cabin, Fritz (Jurgen Prochnow Read More

2000
Jawbreaker

Actors: Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, Judy Greer, Chad Christ, Carol Kane, Pam Grier

Synopsis: At Ronald Reagan High School, the power elite clique consists of Courtney Shane (Rose McGowan), Julie Freeman (Rebecca Gayheart), Marcie Fox (Julie Benz), and Liz Purr (Charlotte Roldan). The four girls control the school through a combination of beauty, sex, and intimidation. Of the four, only Read More

2/19/99
Southie

Actors: Donnie Wahlberg, Rose McGowan, Anne Meara, James Cummings, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: "Southie" is common usage in Massachusetts for a resident of South Boston. John Shea directed and co-scripted (with James Cummings and Dave McLaughlin) this low-budget crime drama which won the American Independent Award at the 1998 Seattle Film Festival. Out of money and out of luck, Danny Quinn (Donnie Wahlberg Read More

1998
Phantoms

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck

Synopsis: Dean Koontz scripted this adaptation of his fantasy novel. The tale begins when two sisters, Lisa (Rose McGowan) and Jenny (Joanna Going) arrive for a ski vacation in the mountain resort town of Snowfield, Colorado, where they discover their landlady is dead and the town is deserted except for a Read More

1998
Charmed [TV Series]

Actors: Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, Terry W. King

Synopsis: Three of the most gorgeous TV witches since the days of Elizabeth Montgomery were the heroines of the hour-long WB fantasy series Charmed, which first materialized on October 7, 1998. Reunited in their ancestral San Francisco mansion, the Halliwell sisters -- Prudence (aka Prue, played by Shannen Doherty Read More

1998
Nowhere

Actors: James Duval, Rachel True, Nathan Bexton, Chiara Mastroianni, Guillermo Diaz, Debi Mazar, Jeremy Jordan

Synopsis: Described by director Gregg Araki as "A Beverly Hills 90210 episode on acid" (with no suggestions of what it might be cut with), Nowhere is a companion piece with Araki's previous meditations on youth gone wild in the 1990s, Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation -- Araki's self-described "teen Read More

1997
Going All the Way

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jill Clayburgh, Amy Locane, Rose McGowan, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeremy Davies, Rachel Weisz

Synopsis: Two men return home from the Army to find that their attitudes on life, love, and the town where they grew up have changed in this bittersweet coming-of-age drama. Sonny Burns (Jeremy Davies) and Gunner Casselman (Ben Affleck) are two guys from Indianapolis who were drafted during the Korean War. Read More

1997
Devil in the Flesh

Actors: Rose McGowan, Alex McArthur, Phil Morris, Robert Silver

Synopsis: Teenage lust turns deadly in this slightly campy exploitation drama. Debbie Strand (Rose McGowan) is a sexy but troubled teenager with a checkered past who is sent to live with her grandmother after the death of her parents. Grandma attempts to keep Debbie on a short leash, but she's soon sneaking Read More

1997
Lewis & Clark & George

Actors: Rose McGowan, Salvator Xuereb, Dan Gunther

Synopsis: Three makes for a dangerous crowd in this darkly comic crime story. Convicted murderer Lewis (Salvator Xuereb) breaks out of prison with Clark (Dan Gunther), who is doing time for computer fraud. The escapees are heading to New Mexico in search of a secret map to a gold mine that was hidden by a Read More

1997
Bio-Dome

Actors: Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, William Atherton, Joey Lauren Adams, Teresa Hill

Synopsis: The "slobs versus snobs" formula of lowbrow comedy gets a twist in this mindless Pauly Shore vehicle that pits slobs against scientists. Shore plays Bud Macintosh, a Tucson, Arizona, slacker and junior college student. Bud and his best pal Doyle Johnson (Stephen Baldwin), have just suffered the Read More

1996
Kiss and Tell

Actors: Peter Howitt, Daniel Craig

Synopsis: In this low-budget screwball-mystery, the death of an L.A. woman leads to a surreal murder investigation on the outer fringes of la-la land. When Molly McMannis (Justine Bateman) turns up dead, still impaled with the murder weapon -- a carrot -- the police launch a probe into the colorful world Read More

1996
Scream

Actors: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, Matthew Lillard, Drew Barrymore

Synopsis: Scream is at once a slasher film and a tongue-in-cheek position paper on the "dead teenagers" movies of the late 1970s/early 1980s that plays as half-parody, half-tribute. Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is having a rough time lately: she's still getting over the brutal rape and murder of her Read More

1996
The Doom Generation

Actors: James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech, Lauren Tewes, Margaret Cho

Synopsis: Billed as "a heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki," The Doom Generation is the director's self-styled bad-taste teen film. Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) is an obnoxious teenage speed freak and her boyfriend Jordan White (James Duval) is a passive, slow-witted poseur who won't have sex with her because he's Read More

1995
Encino Man

Actors: Sean Astin, Pauly Shore, Brendan Fraser, Mariette Hartley, Richard Masur, Megan Ward, Rose McGowan, Rick Ducommun, Robin Tunney

Synopsis: A clueless caveman meets his intellectual match in the form of Pauly Shore in this teen-oriented comedy. Dave Morgan (Sean Astin) is a high school student in Encino, California, where he spends most of his time with his dazed-and-confused buddy Stoney Brown (Shore) and tries to figure out why his Read More

5/22/92