Rosie Fellner | |
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Born | Galway, Ireland |
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Spouse(s) | Adrian Vitoria |
Website | RosieFellner.com |
Rosie Fellner is an English/Irish actress and film producer. Fellner’s first foray into the spotlight was on the cult TV show The Fast Show, which featured celebrity guest stars, such as Johnny Depp. Fellner also received attention for the popular British series, The Alan Clarke Diaries, for her portrayal of Joei Harkness, whose love affair with John Hurt's character causes a scandal. In addition, she notably appeared with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in the series, The Trip To Italy, as well as the movie version. Fellner has worked as an actress on TV, film, radio and on the stage, starring with Kate Beckinsale, Sean Bean, Robert De Niro, Geoffrey Rush, Heather Graham, and Jacqueline Bisset. Fellner co-founded the production company, Rosebud Pictures, with her husband, Adrian Vitoria.
Fellner was born in Galway, Ireland to British parents, Vaughan Fell and Ruth Fellner. After her parents divorced, Rosie’s mother brought her and her siblings first to France, then to Portugal, before finally settling in the mountains behind Malaga in southern Spain. There, she learned to speak fluent Spanish and finished high school. As a child, her love of Shakespeare led her to play Hermia in a mountaintop theater in Spain. She was to play Hermia again in her first professional Theatre job at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. At age 15, she joined her older brothers, Seth and Mojo, on a tour of Europe with the Turbozone International Circus Company as an acrobat. After that, she was offered a place at The Hub Theatre School in Cornwall and then The London and International School of Acting.
Fellner’s public acting career began with her role on the TV movie, So-Called Friends (1997) in which she played the role of Glory Factor. Some of Fellner’s multiple roles on television include her appearance on the cult comedy TV show, The Fast Show (2000), which gave her the opportunity to play various roles with Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Simon Day, and the rest of the cast, My Hero (2002), The Line Of Beauty (2006), The Eustace Bros (2003), Hollyoaks (2006), where she was directed by her now-husband Adrian Vitoria, Casualty (2007-2009), and The Trip To Italy (2014) as Lucy, among others. Fellner has also appeared in many films including the role of Claire in Two Days, Nine Lives (2001] Boogie Woogie (2009) with Heather Graham and Gillian Anderson, Little Deaths (2010-2011) as Maria Joy/Elizabeth Gordon, and The Trip to Italy with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, and Two Jacks (2012) opposite Jack Huston and Sienna Miller Sienna Miller, among others. After the success of The Trip To Italy, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, Fellner then made a second movie with Michael Winterbottom called The Face of An Angel (2014), about the Amanda Knox trial, which should be released in the US in 2015.