Mary Rose Byrne is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut in the film Dallas Doll (1994), and continued to act in Australian film and television throughout the 1990s. She obtained her first leading film role in The Goddess of 1967 (2000), which brought her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and made the transition to American cinema with a small role in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), followed by bigger parts in Hollywood productions of Troy (2004), 28 Weeks Later (2007) and Knowing (2009).

The Goddess of 1967 is a 2000 Australian film directed by Clara Law, who wrote the script with her husband Eddie Ling-Ching Fong. The film is about a rich young Japanese man, who travels to Australia with the intention of buying a Citroën DS car that he has found for sale on the internet. Once there, things do not go as planned and he ends up on a road trip with a blind girl.