Melanie Jayne Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977)
is a New Zealand actress. She is known for her charming, soft-spoken but strong
characters. She works mainly in independent films. Her achievements include a
New Zealand Film Award, and a Hollywood Film Award and a Sundance Special Jury
Award, and Gotham Award, Golden Nymph Award Critics' Choice Award, and Screen
Actors Guild Award nominations. Lynskey's film debut was as a teenage killer in
Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). After moving to the United States in
1994, Lynskey began a successful career playing supporting roles in a wide
range of high-budget and smaller-scale films, including Ever After (1998) and
Detroit Rock City and But I'm a Cherleader (both 1999), Coyote Ugly (2000),
Abandon and Sweet Home Alabama (1902), Shattered Glass (2003) and Flags of Our
Fathers (2006). Lynskey received a nomination for the Gotham Award as
Breakthrough Performer and received critical acclaim for her portrayal of a
divorced, depressed woman in The Goodbye I Must be Going (2012). This was a
turning point in her career. She has been a prominent name in 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'm Not at Home in This World. And Then I go. Lady of the Manor.
(2021). Lynskey is also known for her performance as Rose in the television
series Two and a Half Men (2003-2015). From 2015 until 2016, she appeared as
Michelle Pierson on the HBO series Togetherness, for which she received an
award nomination for the 2015 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best
Supporting Actress. She voiced Beatrice on the Cartoon Network's Over the
Garden Wall (2014) and Megan for Disney XD's Future-Worm! (2016-2018). She was
in Molly Strand's debut season on Hulu (2018), and Rosemary Thomson was her
role in Mrs. America (2020).
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