Melanie Jayne Lynskey
Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977)
is an New Zealand actress. She is well-known for charming, soft-spoken but
strong character. She works mostly in independent films. Her honors include an
New Zealand Film Award. A Hollywood Film Award. Sundance Special Jury Award.
Gotham Award. Golden Nymph Award. Critics Choice Award. Screen Actors Guild
Award nominations. Lynskey made her film debut as a teenage murderess , in
Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). After making the move to the United
States, she built an impressive career as a supporting actor in various
small-budget and large-budget features like Ever After (1998), Detroit Rock
City, But I'm a Cheerleader (both 1999), Coyote Ugly (2000), Abandon, Sweet
Home Alabama (both 2002), Shattered Glass (2003), Flags of Our Fathers (2006),
Away We Go, Up in the Air, The Informant! Leaves of Grass (all 2009), Win Win
(2011) Looking for an Friend for the end of the World, The Perks of Being a
Wallflower (both 2012) and They Came Together (2014) and Don't Take a Look Up
(2021). Lynskey earned critical acclaim as well as a nomination for the Gotham
Award for Breakthrough Performer for her starring role as a depressed divorcee
in Hello I Must Be Going (2012), which was a pivotal moment in her career. She has
been a prominent persona within the American independent film industry thanks
to her subsequent performances 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'm Off. Lady of the Manor. (2021).
Lynskey is also well-known for her character of Rose on Two and a Half Men
(2003-2015). From 2015 to 2016, she starred as Michelle Pierson on the HBO
series Togetherness and was nominated for the 2015 Critics' Choice Television
Award for the Best Supporting Actress. She was the voice of Beatrice on Cartoon
Network's Over the Garden Wall (2014) and Megan for Disney XD's Future-Worm!
(2016-2018). She was the main character in Molly Strand's first season on Hulu
(2018), and Rosemary Thomson was her role in Mrs. America (2020).
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