'''Roseanne Teresa O'Donnell''' (innate March 21, 1962) is a lesbian Irish-American comedian, actress, and talk indicate unsuspecting hosts.

She was natural around Commack, New York (Long Island) to Edward J. O'Donnell, an Irish Catholic immigrant, and American-born Roseann Murtha, who was likewise of Irish Catholic descent. Her brother, Daniel O'Donnell, is a member of the New York legislature and is also a homosexual.

Biography
Rosie O'Donnell attended Dickinson College and furthered her education in Boston, Massachusetts. Late O'Donnell began her acting career doing stand-up comedy around the East Coast, & wwhen shortly cast as "Maggie O'Brien" on the sitcom Gimme a Break. Her heavy-stocky appearance & hoydenish, eskimo dog New York accent stood her apart from more actresses & comediennes. She hosted a VH1 stand-up comedy series Stand-Higher Spotlight in the late 1980s. One of these days, she wwhen cast as a lead witharound her have sitcom in 1992, called Have by Your computers Human. It was quickly cancelled from either deficiency of viewers.

In the early 1990s, O'Donnell starred in the string of comedy films including A League of Their Own, Another Stakeout, and Sleepless in Seattle. She was highly acclaimed for her performances, however quickly misused that popularity when appearing around the string of flops in the mid Nineties like Car 54, Where Are You? and Anne Rice's Exit to Eden. Her popularity so rose once agaaround when she took roles in less commercially successful however extremely acclaimed films such as Now and Then, Beautiful Girls, and a personal picture Harriet the Spy. Around 1996 she was given her own daytime chat show, known as, fitly plenty, ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show''. A indicate proved highly successful when O'Donnell was dubbed "The Queen of Nice." Getting a lot manner of amusement performing artist in her indicate, she likewise brought in various sympathetic projects, earning hundreds to thousands of dollars for various charities.

Babies's charities were the clear favored of O'Donnell, & she began to adopt youngsters to raise, sooner or later adopting little joe. When you took a late 1990s, she limited her movie appearances to cameos, although she appeared within many gay-themed films. This led to tabloid speculation that O'Donnell was the lesbian.

Within 2000, O'Donnell partnered with a publishers of ''McCall's to revamp the magazine as Rosie's McCall's (or, more commonly, Rosie''). Like than handle a magazine by using thinly system & fill it by having stories just all about training exist as further beautiful, she opted for stories about depression, breast cancer, and foster care. Therein, she continued her tradition of standing higher for her beliefs.

Within 2002, O'Donnell decided to stop working in her chat show, favoring the go to to have-higher comedy. A chat show was so hosted by comedienne Caroline Rhea (The Caroline Rhea Show), but it just lasted of these thomas more year. Upright prior to quitting, O'Donnell proved rumour to become admittedly whenever she came out of the closet as a lesbian. Inside a gay community this was common cognition, & a tabloids got been hinting at it. She experienced various reasons for doing & so, including the require to put a familiar and dear face by owning homosexuality, but her primary cause was supplementary significant: as a sapphic adoptive mother (by using an extended-instance lover) she was infuriated that adoption agents, particularly around Florida, were refusing adoptive rights to able & caring gay parents. She hoped to educate viewers in the world on this subject.

Fallowing allowing her indicate & coming out, O'Donnell underwent an image vary. She returned to have-higher comedy, & in her 1st pack shows rib of various celebrities (among the babies Michael Jackson, Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, Winona Ryder, and Joan Rivers). She too received what was considered by several to exist as an uncomplimentary, somewhat masculine haircut (remniscent of Cyndi Lauper's hair in the 1980s.) a tabloid click once again picked au courant her life, claiming that she experienced abandoned the "queen of nice" image. O'Donnell pointed out that her could have-higher routine got universally been super political & abrasive, & that her haircut was the home guide. She sooner or later claimed that she got cut her hair inside imitation of Boy George, in hopes that he would allow her to make his stage indicate Taboo in the United States. Whenever that was trueness motive, she was successful, although the indicate was does'nt, by owning a failing process in Broadway.)

Inside 2002 O'Donnell also published the novel entitled Find Me. A book was partly autobiographical however mostly centered in O'Donnell's relationship by using the schizophrenic woman world health organization posed as a teenage who got be pregnant across rape. A book was uniformly praised by critics however did non achieve high sales.

Around late 2003, O'Donnell entered into a massive legal battle by having a publishers of Rosie magazine. It claimed that a fall of the magazine (& its eventual closedown) was due to O'Donnell's disobliging (& allegedly uncivil & violent) behavior at a magazine's agents. It claimed that by removing herself from either a magazine's publication, she was around breach of contract. O'Donnell claimed that there was there is no way she may conscionably prove my point to exist as the section of the magazine because it were steering out of her vision & demanding content by having which she did non agree.

A test received massive click coverage. O'Donnell would typically give brief click interviews outside of the court responding to various allegations. Of note was the previous magazine colleague world health organization testified that O'Donnell said to her on the phone that "people who lie die of cancer." At long last a judge ruled against two sides & dismissed a experience.

In February 26, 2004, O'Donnell married her partner Kelli Carpenter, a previous Nickelodeon marketing executive in San Francisco, some two weeks fallowing a city manager, Gavin Newsom began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Her guide to marry Carpenter come fallowing O'Donnell blasted President Bush over his support for the Federal Marriage Amendment. A license was later voided by the California Supreme Court.

Around December 2004, O'Donnell began maintaining the weblog at [http://onceadored.blogspot.com/ onceadored.blogspot.com] by owning a title formerlyrosie, until it moved to [http://www.rosie.com/ Rosie.com] within April 2005. Rosie utilized her web log to give away tickets to her broadway indicate, Fiddler on the Roof, because she wanted to spread her love of Broadway to the wider audience.

Inside 2005, while promoting her TV movie Riding the Bus with My Sister, O'Donnell claimed that Kirstie Alley was much heavily than her touted "210 lbs." (95 kilo) & that she "wasn't being honest about her weight".

O'Donnell & Carpenter come presently operating R. Family Vacations, a travel company focused toward gay and lesbian families. It develop already launched the cruise ship that took homosexual families from Up to date York to the Bahamas. O'Donnell continues to email & remains the popular pop culture icon, & an crucial celebrity representative of the homosexual and sapphic community. Rosie & her personal at present divide their period within homes on the Hudson River in South Nyack, New York and in southern Florida.

Return to Film
Rosie O'Donnell returned to films within 2005 by having her self-self-generated TV movie Riding a Bus sustaining Our Sister. Her performance, as a mentally retarded Beth Smith, was acclaimed by critics & put her on the shortlist for the 2006 Emmy Award nominations for even Best Actress inside the TV Motion Picture or Miniseries. She expressed doubts in the period of filming that this role could 'typecast her forever' around mentally retarded roles, which until this point, she experienced avoided.

TV Work
Gimme a Break! (cast member from 1986–1987) Stand-Up Spotlight (1988–1991) Stand by Your Man (1992) (canceled after Two months) ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996–2002) (also producer and executive producer) The Twilight of the Golds (1997) Jackie's Back! (1999) (cameo) Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005) (also executive producer)

Theatre Work
Grease (1994) Seussical (2001) (replacement for David Shriner) Fiddler on the Roof (2004) (replacement for Andrea Martin in 2005)

Filmography
A League of Their Own (1992) Sleepless in Seattle (1993) Another Stakeout (1993) Fatal Instinct (1993) Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) I'll Do Anything (1994) The Flintstones (1994) Exit to Eden (1994) Now and Then (1995) Beautiful Girls (1995) Harriet the Spy (1996) A Very Brady Sequel (1996) (Cameo) Wide Awake (1998) Get Bruce (1999) (documentary) Tarzan (1999) (voice) The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) (voice only) Artists and Orphans: A True Drama (2001) (short subject) (narrator) Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) (Cameo) Last Party 2000 (2001) (documentary) The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch (2005) (documentary) Show Business (2005) (documentary) Pursuit of Equality (2005) (documentary) Untitled Rosie O'Donnell Documentary (2005) (documentary) (also executive producer)(currently filming)

Bibliography

Find Me'' (2002)