Melanie Jayne Lynskey

Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977) is an New Zealand actress. She is famous for her quirky, soft-spoken but headstrong characters, and works predominantly in independent films. Her awards include an 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 was a teen murderess who made her film debut in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). After making the move to the United States, she built a career playing supporting parts in various small-scale and big-budget movies, such as Ever After (1998), Detroit Rock City, But I'm a Cheerleader (both 1999), Coyote Ugly (2000), Abandon, Sweet Home Alabama (both 2002), Shattered Glass (2003), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Away We Go, Up in the Air, The Informant!, Leaves of Grass (all 2009), Win Win (2011) Looking for an Friend for the end of the World, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (both 2012) Then They Came Together (2014), and Don't Turn Your Head Up (2021). Lynskey received critical acclaim and an award nomination for the Gotham Award for Breakthrough Performer for her starring role as a depressed divorcee Hello I Must Be Going (2012) The film proved to be a turning scene in her career. She is a prominent figure within the American independent film industry thanks to her later roles 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'm Off. Lady of the Manor. (2021). Outside of film, Lynskey achieved fame with her role as Rose on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003-2015). From 2015 until 2016she was a character on Michelle Pierson on the HBO series Togetherness and received a nomination for the 2015 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. She voiced Beatrice for Cartoon Network's Over the Garden Wall (2014) and Megan for Disney XD's Future-Worm! (2016-2018). She was a part of Molly Strand's first season of Hulu (2018) and Rosemary Thomson was her role in Mrs. America (2020).



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