Favorite Movie: Sixteen Candles
Favorite Actresses: Susan Sarandon, Jessica
Lange, Barbara Stanwyck, Sophia Loren, and Eva Gardner.
Favorite Designer: John Galliano.
Favorite Authors: Philip K.
Dick and Edgar A. Poe.
Hobbies: Traditional art, history, singing (Rose Likes karaoke singing to Country Western singer
Patsy Cline) and going to the movies, walking, and phony people. She knits, gardens, and collects Marlene Dietrich memorabilia.
Pets: yes
Two dogs, Bug and Fester, they're Boston Terriers. Fester is named
after Uncle Fester from The Adams Family. Rose loves her dogs and takes them every where, they've been photographed with her,
and Rose took Bug with her on Jay Leno.
Rose on her dogs: Little freaky gargoyles...like Jim Carrey trapped in dog's bodies.
They Make me laugh a lot. It's such a working-mother thing.I was obsessed with Furbys for a while, and I finally got one and
it's so annoying. I wanted to die. My dog was very jealous of them, so she ate one's head. My dog looks like a Furby. That
was her problem, I think." Just lately I think ever since I got dogs. I never really owned animals before, but since I've
got these two weird dogs. Do you know what Boston Terriers are? They're like bug eyed, black and white, they kind of look
like me, black and white with bug eyes. My dog snorts so ever since I've had her I snort when I laugh. I'm becoming my dog.I
usually do it when I laugh, [she pretends to laugh and snort] and I'm like in a four star restaurant. I'm like, "Sorry. "
Rose doesn't like fish
Rose spends $50 every month to get her dogs nails painted.
Dyed
her hair blonde in order to contrast her black hair from Neve Campbell's in Scream (1996)
It took 12 hours, two bottles
of lightener and a box of red hair dye to transform her trademark long dark tresses into a strawberry-blond bob.
Rose
never ever sunbathes
Rose is addicted to shoes
sings on "Posthuman"
on Marilyn Manson's album "Mechanical animals"
Blood red lipstick is her trademark.
Rose heard that Marilyn Manson had a crush on her since her saw her
in The Doom Generation. They met at the premiere for Gummo [October 17, 1997]. Manson had just moved to Hollywood and said,
"The only person I want to meet is Rose McGowan."
She had a boyfriend at the time but was unhappy in that relationship
and ended it. The first date is hot, Manson said : "We went to this bar and she started dancing really sexy dancing to Iron
Maiden, which I thought, if a girl can dance to Iron Maiden, this is the girl that I'm going to be with forever. "
Not long after Rose and Manson started dating she moved in with him,
but she kept her apartment for awhile.
On February 12, 1999, in a bathtub surrounded by candles...Manson asked Rose to
marry him. Rose announced her engagement on Howard Stern's radio show [Feb 16, 1999]. They have not set a date but they have
bought a house together.
On Thursday January 18 2001, Rose announced her engagement to Manson was over. "There is
great love, but our lifestyle difference is, unfortunately, even greater,''
On Howard Stern's Radio Show, Rose implied she broke up with Manson
because of his drug use. "The drugs-more than you could imagine. I realized it wasn't a lifestyle I wanted to be married to.
I have never been a rock chick." Plus, their design sensibilities conflicted. Manson has his Goth accessories, and McGowan
restricted them to the third floor. "I collect Depression Era Moderne," she says. "It doesn't work well with devil's heads."
Marilyn Manson has written 2 songs for her and paint her when she was
in "depression".
She had agoraphobia and OCD
Rose used to carry a Polaroid camera around.
People tease Rose about putting money in strangers' parking meters.
Rose
has used her feminine wiles to lure male customers into seeing matinee screenings of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Rose
hates:the anti-Goth folks in the Northwest, especially Oregon.
To support herself, Rose worked at a beauty salon.
As
a child, Rose climbed fig trees in Italy and had a pet lamb.
Rose hopes she will be remembered for being tenacious,
warm and quick.
She never leaves home without her bag. Her friends all call it "the log." It's a green Louis
Vuitton bag. The first night the show aired, she used the log in one of her scenes and instead of getting congratulatory calls
from friends about the performance, she got calls about the log.
Rose says that people would be shocked to discover
that she is a big klutz.
"I am always tripping, falling up stairs, getting my hand stuck in car doors - it's pretty constant.
My body is always moving and oftentimes my brain is left behind."
When Rose dies she wants to be buried under
a tree.
Appearances/Nominations
She was nominated for a 1996 Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut
Performance for her role as Amy Blue in THE DOOM GENERATION.
She was nominated for a 1999 MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for her
role as Courtney Shane in JAWBREAKER.
She got the role of Amy Blue, in THE DOOM GENERATION, after Jordan Ladd
pulled out.
Was nominated MTV Movie Award for Best Villain in 1999 for JAWBREAKER.
She was raised by her hippie parents in a commune for The Children Of
God cult. When she was 10 her father left her mother for the nanny. Her parents divorced and Rose went to live with her grandmother
in Gig Harbor, Washington, she then bounced between her mother and father.
When she was 14 she was locked up in a drug-rehab clinic, at the time
Rose said she had not done drugs. Graduated High School at 16, went to Art School in Seattle at 17and went to a few Beauty
Schools in Seattle.
After making The Doom Generation, she went to work at her Aunt's Beauty
Salon. Dreams of being a Museum Curator.
Former jobs: movie usher, a waitress and worked at a deli.While still
working at the Salon, she took time off to promote Doom at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, shortly after that Rose decided
to move to Los Angeles and acting.
recommended fanpage: Realm of Rose
For detailed filmography see The International Movie Database
