As a young girl growing up in Southern California, Rosemary Flaherty had the monumental, life-changing opportunity to be instructed by the World Famous comic performer, Pepito, who served as a mentor to Lucille Ball on the classic "I Love Lucy" television show.  Ms. Flaherty also took dance lessons from a strict teacher who could not dissuade Rosemary's deep passion for performing, an enduring passion which exists to this day.

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After years in a successful, fulfilling career outside the entertainment field, Ms. Flaherty chose a new phase of life as an actress on stage, large and small screens, wherever there were complex, meaningful roles, with a Capital "S" on "Serious", including comedic roles.  Yet, she was/is not content with the ordinary challenges of being a typical working actress.  Her goal, as she puts it, "...is to be a damned good actress..."

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Once meeting iconoclastic underground filmmaker, Brother Andy, Ms. Flaherty began the craft of acting from the ground up, developing the necessary tools for a refined performance.  Initially believing she would be an extra background player, way, way, in the background, Brother Andy immediately cast her in a co-starring dramatic role in a feature film and proceeded to cast her in a starring role in a follow-up feature film.

 

Within the last year, Flaherty has joined the cast of The Happy Hooligans short film comedy series as "Mrs. Dumont", a character written especially for her.  In a relatively short time, Ms. Flaherty has consistently turned in one stellar performance after another...

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Ms. Flaherty has quickly earned the reputation as a consummate professional, a dedicated, dependable hard-worker, all the while maintaining a keen sense of humor -- the hallmark of a damned good actress.  Perhaps those were lessons well-learned from a gentleman named Pepito?