The physical environment of L.A. is really beautiful. It's actually kinda fun, too, if you're working. It's just not really fun if you're not working and you don't know anybody.

You're a freelancer. Along with Glenn Close Rose Byrne appeared in all of the show's fifty-nine episodes. In 2006 Byrne portrayed Gabrielle de Polastron duchesse de Polignac a French aristocrat and friend of Marie Antoinette in Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette with Kirsten Dunst and appeared in The Dead Girl directed by Karen Moncrieff.

In 2000 Rose Byrne played a leading role in the Australian film The Goddess of 1967 which brought her a Venice Film Festival award for Best Actress. Byrne made her screen debut in 1994 with a small role in the film Dallas Doll.