Rose McGowan, born on September 5, 1973, is an American actress, director, and singer. Her full name is Rose Arianna McGowan. She is well known for her contribution to independent films.

Since the age of nineteen, she has appeared in acclaimed films by acclaimed directors like Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Gregg Araki.

She was also nominated for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014 for her directional debut Dawn (2015).

Rose was born and raised in Florence, Italy. She is the daughter of Terri, an American writer of French descent, and  Daniel McGowan, an artist. She is the second-oldest of six children.

She was raised in communes of the Children of God/ The Family cult where her father was the leader if the Italian chapter. Through her father's art contacts in Italy, Rose became a child model and appeared in various Italian magazines.

At the age of 10, she moved to the United States with her family. At that time her parents had a divorce. She ended up living in Oregon with her mother. Though she was born in Italy, her nationality is American.

She began working at the age of 13 in a movie theater. When she was 14, one of her mother's boyfriend told her mother that she was doing drugs as she was thin and always wore black. She was then sent to drug rehab clinic.

In 1996, Rose was the cover model for the Henry Mancini album Shots in the Dark and had also appeared in numerous magazines. She was also the face of Bebe, an American clothing company, from 1998 to 1999.  

Rose made her first Hollywood film debut in the 1992 comedy Encino Man. Since then, she has appeared in numerous movies. She even starred alongside Ben Affleck in Going All The Way (1997).

Due to her role in 1998 dark comedy Jawbreaker, she was nominated for Best Villain at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards. She has played Paige Matthews in The WB Television supernatural series Charmed.

In 2007, Rose headlined in Grindhouse, a critically acclaimed film by Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez. In 2008, she was a guest programmer and co-host of TCM's film-series program, The Essentials.

In addition to movies and television, Rose also lent her voice in various video games like Darkwatch and Terminator Salvation. She has also appeared in music videos and performed back vocals in many songs.

Rose had a car accident back in 2007, which caused one of the temple arms of her glasses to slice into her face near her eyes. She had to do a plastic surgery of her face to cover the wounds.

This brought changes in her face which was noticed in the TV series Charmed.

Rose is very hot and of average height. She is 5'4'' tall has feet of 6.5 US. She has frequently been featured on various ''sexiest women'' lists of publications like Maxim.

Rose had many love affairs, one of which was with Marilyn Manson which was public and lasted three and half years.

In October of 2013, Rose was married to Davie Detail, an artist, whom she had been dating since long. Recently, she was spotted in Hawaii with her husband where she wore plain tops and jeans shorts showing her sexy legs.

Since her first debut, Rose has made an undeniably distinct impression on Hollywood with her talent and accent. McGowan has an estimated net worth of $18 million.

She is also very active social sites like Instagram and Twitter. Her fans can get enough information about her in wiki.