ZomBcon International is proud to announce the latest name to be added to the 2011 guest list. This year, Guest of Honor, Rose McGowan (Charmed, Scream, Planet Terror) will be joining ZomBcon on Saturday, October 22nd and 23rd for a screening of Planet Terror, Q&A, fan signings and fan photo opportunity.
This year also marks the announcement of the 1st annual Cherry Darling Award; celebrating brave independent women in the film and television industry making a difference in their community. Every year, ZomBcon will honor a female artist in the horror genre to raise awareness for a local charity in the spirit of horror every October.
Rose’s appearance will be help raise awareness for a local non-profit charity, REEL GRRLS that empowers young women from diverse communities to realize their power, talent and influence through media production. Their mission is to cultivate voice and leadership in girls at a vulnerable age in their development. She will be donating 100% of all autographs and photo opportunities to the charity during ZomBcon.
She likes fast cars, classic films of the 1940′s, wears high heels despite an injured ankle. She became an actress by chance. The charming Rose McGowan talked about the beginnings of her career, work with Tarantino and Rodriguez and her passion for action movies.
She never wanted to be an actress. She moved to Los Angeles from rainy Seattle, lived with her boyfriend and wanted to start college. At that moment, her boyfriend died. Totally devastated, she lived at her friends’ place and a friend of a friend offered her first film acting role. She refused, but when she realised that thanks to the film she could make money and buy herself a flat, she changed her mind.
Rose McGowan is very closely tied to her siblings. She talked proudly of what they do now and how great and adventurous their childhood was. “We would go to the police station, tell that we escaped from home and come from a different town. They would give us money for a bus and we were going to the town we never before visited. Thus we saw many places.” Her childhood not always was this carefree. At the age of 14 she worked at a funeral home, and a year later she lost the roof above her head.
Article written on April 13, 2011
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Rose McGowan attended the 8th Annual New Yorkers For Children Spring Dinner Dance in New York yesterday. Our lady was an absolute vision, wearing a titanium yellow strapless wrap gown by Dolce Gabbana, a beautiful multi-colored jeweled necklace by Lorraine Schwartz and ruby earrings. Just stunning!
A handful of photos have been added of Miss McGowan attending the 2011 New Museum Spring Gala on Wednesday, April 6, in New York. She looked very cute in a turquoise ruffled dress.
Also, don’t forget to pick up your copy of Dead Awake, which is now available on DVD and Blu-ray in North America! We will be bringing you coverage from the movie soon so stay tuned.
Three-time Oscar nominee and 18-time Emmy nominee Angela Lansbury will join actress-writer-producer Illeana Douglas, director Guy Hamilton, actor Jerry Mathers, actress Rose McGowan, actor Ron Perlman, actress Barbara Rush, director Allison Anders, singer Nancy and producer Tina Sinatra at the 2011 TCM Classic Film Festival. They are the latest additions to the star-studded roster for this year’s festival, which takes place April 28 – May 1 in Hollywood.
In other news, a special poolside screening of the Elvis Presley musical Girl Happy (1965) will take place on the opening night of the TCM Classic Film Festival. TCM will also honor Elizabeth Taylor with a special 60th anniversary presentation of George Stevens’ romantic drama A Place in the Sun (1951), starring Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Shelley Winters. The film will be introduced by actress Rose McGowan, who co-hosted The Essentials on TCM in 2008.
