Rosie Alvarez

Rosie Alvarez is English and trained in theatre for two years at "The Poor School", the highly acclaimed drama school in London. Since graduating, she has appeared in a variety of roles for television and film, mostly international feature films, and TV roles for the BBC, including a guest role as "Avril" on "Casualty" screened for a Christmas Special. She enjoyed playing a main role in the Deutsche Columbia Tristar feature film, Anatomy 2 (2003), directed by Oscar winner Stefan Ruzowitzky, especially as she had to learn German for the part and then impose a Filipina accent on top. She filmed a minor supporting role as an English psychiatrist in the Austrian feature film thriller, Tödlicher Umweg (2004), ("Deadly Diversion"), produced by Harry Alan Towers, directed by Curt Faudon. In her third feature film she played a supporting role as a Filipina cook in Silentium (2004) directed by the Austrian director Wolfgang Murnberger. She needed to speak German and then superimpose a Filipina accent, as well as speak broken English. After a small role in the UK's 'Green Wing', Rosie played 'Saowanee Assawaroj' in the famous German TV movie series 'Stubbe', filmed in Amsterdam and Hamburg, followed by a role as 'Yana Sunlei' in the German TV series 'M.E.T.R.O.', filmed in Thailand. Rosie is fluent in both the French and Italian languages, and has achieved an intermediate standard in the German language. Her mother tongue is English. She is especially interested in European film and cinema.