Rose McGowan : Role - Paige Matthews

Birthday : 5 September 1973

Birth Place : Florence, Italy

Birth Name : Rose Arianna McGowan

Height : 5′4″

Gender : Female

Rose McGowan was born on 5 September 1973 in Florence, Italy. She is the daughter of Terri, a writer,  and Daniel McGowan. Her mother is of  French descent and father is of Irish descent. She has traveled to Europe many times, along with her family in her childhood. McGowan became a child model owing to her father’s art contacts in Italy, and appeared in various Italian magazines including Vogue Bambini. Her parents were separated when she was ten, and they returned to US. She then lived at Oregon and later at Gig Harbor, Washington and there she started speaking English. She was educated at Roosevelt High School and Nova Alternative High School while living with her father in Seattle, Washington. She got herself officially emancipated from her parents, at the age of fifteen.

She now lives in Los Angeles and is engaged to director Robert Rodriguez. Earlier she had a long and very public relationship with Marilyn Manson, but their two-year long engagement ended due to difference in lifestyles. She then also had relations with Kip Pardue, Ahmet Zappa and David Zinczenco. She suffered from serious injuries to her face, due to an accident in 2007, but has now recovered from the same.

Her acting career began from a small role in a film ‘Encino Man’ in 1992, but she grabbed attention of film critics for her role in the 1995 movie ‘The Doom Generation’. After this she appeared in many films like ‘Scream‘, ‘Nowhere‘, ‘Phantoms‘, ‘The Last Stop’, ‘The Black Dahlia’, ‘Grindhouse- Planet Terror’, ‘Fifty Dead Men Walking‘, etc. She also appeared in TV movies like ‘Elvis‘ and ‘The Killing Yard’.

She appeared on the TV in series like ‘Charmed‘ in which she plays the role of “Paige Matthews“. She appeared in single episodes of ‘True Colours’ and ‘What About Joan?‘. She has also acted in the video games ‘Darkwatch: Curse of the West‘ and ‘Terminator Salvation’.

She appeared in music videos for the song ‘Coma White’. She has written and recorded the song ‘Protection‘ and she also wants to record an album of her own. Apart from this, she has done modeling for Bebe, an American clothing company. She appeared on the cover page of several magazines like Seventeen, Interview, Maxim, GQ, Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone. She has appeared a number of times in the sexiest women lists of FSH, Maxim and Stuff magazines.

She was nominated for Independent Spirit Award- 1996 in the category of Best Debut Performance, for her role in ‘The Doom Generation’ and for Saturn Award - 2008 as Best Supporting Actress for ‘Grindhouse’. She won the Family Television Award, 2005 as Favorite Sister for ‘Charmed’ and became a nominee for the MTV Movie Award- 1999 as Best Villain for ‘Jawbreaker‘. She has also won the Midnight Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2008.

Role in Charmed

Rose McGowan appears in the role of “Paige Matthews” in ‘Charmed’ tv show. She is the fourth child of Patricia Halliwell, who was born because of a secret love affair between her mother and Whitelighter Samuel Wilder. To keep her safe she was handed over by her mother  to a nun “Sister Agnes”. Later she was adopted by Matthews. She possesses the power of teleportation.