Biographie
A native of Kauai, Hawaii, Malea Rose is a graduate of the island's Kula High School and a former competitive surfer. She also entered singing competitions; performed in clown camp; hosted her own radio show on local KKCR; and modeled throughout her life for multiple publications and brands including photographer Terry Richardson and Italian Vogue. From the age of five, Rose has been a seasoned stage performer, starting with the Kauai Community Theater Group. She graduated high school a year early, and later attended Chapman University in Southern California as a theater major at age 16, before making her feature film debut as the drug lord's girlfriend in the crime thriller Kush. Rose made her television debut in the HBO comedy series Entourage, and has appeared in a number of other series, including Vin Diesel directed series The Ropes, Hello Ladies (as Lexi, a funny party girl), New Girl, The Crazy Ones, Legit, and the last and final season of Two and a Half Men. Her additional feature credits include Lake Dead, Garden Party, Yellow (for director Nick Cassavetes), and Think Like a Man Too to name a few. Malea Rose plays Lleva, a fun-loving pragmatic Earth girl caught up in an alternative universe in the upcoming science fiction thriller The Repairman. She also co-stars as Halle Berry's nasty nemesis in the feature Kidnap, which is described as a female Taken, and she plays a very young cool mom in the television pilot Unphiltered, about an accomplished womanizer who reluctantly decides to help re-introduce his divorced, broken hearted friend to today's cutthroat dating world. Rose is also a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade improvisational group. In her spare time, she is a writer and is in development on her first project, she's an advocate of Womens rights and equality, and continues to work with animal charities among others.
