Rosie Mole her) and having an abortion. In "Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction", she has a very complicated boyfriend, to whom she gives money for drugs and drink. Rosie lies to her mother that she needs money for her studies. Adrian knows the truth, but keeps silent, even though he disapproves of Rosie's behaviour. Her favourite group is the Spice Girls and she models her clothes after members of the group, particularly Emma Bunton. Rosie goes to school at "Neil Armstrong Comprehensive School", the old school of her brother Adrian, in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. When she was a little girl, Rosie
Bess Armstrong Girls and Brown University, from which she graduated with degrees in Latin and Theater (studying acting with Jim Barnhill and John Emigh). While at Bryn Mawr and Brown, Armstrong appeared in over one hundred stage plays. Armstrong's professional acting career began in 1975 with the Off-Off Broadway debut, "Harmony House". Then, in 1977, Armstrong made her television debut as Julia Peters on the CBS sitcom, "On Our Own". In 1978 Armstrong starred opposite Richard Thomas in her first TV-movie "Getting Married". She co-starred again with Richard Thomas in a 1981 stage production in Seattle of Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the