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Timeline: What did she do in LA?


Born in 1973 to parents who ran a cult chapter in Italy. Moved to Oregon in 1983. Left for "Hollywood" at age 15. There are seven years in LA where she had little or no money. What did she do, besides two years with "William"?

1988: Moved to LA. Met director and had sex.
1990: Bit parts in two movies.
1992: brief role in comedy Encino Man.
1995: lead role in comedy The Doom Generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_McGowan

McGowan was born September 5, 1973, in Florence, Italy,[1] to American couple Daniel McGowan, an artist,[1] and Terri, a writer. She has two half-siblings.[4] Her father ran an Italian chapter of the Children of God, which he and his wife were members of until 1978.[5] McGowan spent her early childhood at the group's communes, often traveling through Europe with her parents.[4]

In the early 1990s, McGowan, then relatively unknown, was involved for two years with a man she refers to as William, who, she claims, kept buying her exercise equipment and fashion magazines in an effort to persuade her to get thinner. She developed an eating disorder in her unsuccessful efforts to get her weight down to 84 pounds (38 kg) like the women in the magazines. "I never was able to get below 92 pounds (42 kg)," she wrote later. "I felt like a failure."[60]

That relationship and the eating disorder ended in early 1993 when McGowan met Brett Cantor, a part-owner of Hollywood's Dragonfly nightclub.[61] Cantor was brutally stabbed to death in his house that July, and McGowan stated that it left her "shattered". The killing remains unsolved.[60]

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