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ROSE MCGOWAN BIOGRAPHY |
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Rose McGowan was born in Florence, Italy in 1975
and was raised in Italy on a commune of the Children of God cult.
Her parents moved back to the United States when Rose was ten.
They didn't want anything to do with American culture, however,
and Rose had never spoken English until then. She had never seen
a movie before either, and she wasn't even aware that movies and
television existed. Her education was limited to "little schools
where the kids laid around listening to Kurt Vonnegut." All the
traditional education she recieved was from her mother. In spite
of the atmosphere she grew up in, even from early on Rose was
very un-hippie and never bought into that lifestyle. Rose left
the commune when she was fifteen. She then worked in a variety
of jobs, and often had to lie about her age to get them. She
worked as a waitress, sales clerk, ticket taker and other
minimum wage jobs. She was even forced to live on the streets
for a while.
Her first acting opportunity was in 1992's Encino Man. After
that, she waited another three years before being in another
movie. Her next film was Gregg Araki's Doom Generation. Araki
had met her outside a gym while she was in LA to attend arts
school, and he decided to cast her in his Sundance entry.
Although much of Rose's fame has come from her more commercial
films like Biodome and Scream, most of her roles have been in
independant films. While McGowan enjoys making movies, her first
love is traditional art. Rather than creatin art (like her
father), she would rather be a curator and revive museums. She
feels that museums have become unfriendly to younger people, and
dreams of opening them up so that the average person can connect
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