Date of Birth 5 September 1973, Florence, Tuscany, ItalyBirth Name Rose Arianna McGowan
Height 5' 4" (1.63 m)
Mini Biography
Rose McGowan was born on September 5, 1973, to a French mother, and an Irish father. She was raised in a 'Children on God' commune in Florence, Italy. Rose has 4 siblings; two brothers, two sisters, She also has 2 half siblings. By the time she was 10, her parents had divorced, and she went to live with her grandmother in Washington. She legally emancipated herself at 15. She moved down to Los Angeles, where she was discovered standing outside of a gym refusing to go in because she thought it would have been 'too corny'.
She landed her first starring role in Gregg Araki's film The Doom Generation, which got her nominated for Best Newcomer at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. Also in 1996 she got a supporting role in Wes Craven's Scream, as Sidney Prescott's friend Tatum Riley.
