- Rosie Malek-Yonan is an actress, director, producer, author, documentary filmmaker, a classically trained pianist, composer, and an Assyrian advocate.
- Malek-Yonan spoke in Assyrian in her first national commercial for AT&T.
- Rosie Malek-Yonan's book, "The Crimson Field" a true story of her family documenting the Assyrian Genocide of 1914-18, was chosen as required reading by Professor Ellene Phufas for her World Literature class for the State University of New York to represent a work about the Christian Genocides in Asia Minor. In 2005, the book was awarded The Assyrian Event of the Year 2005 by Zinda Magazine, Washington, D.C. In 2007, the book was featured in the winter 2007's fourth issue of MAKE, a Chicago Literary Magazine. In 2014, The Crimson Field won the Golden Palm Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival for Best Screenplay that she co-wrote with her sister, Monica Malek-Yonan. Following this win, Rosie Malek-Yonan was invited to serve on the Executive Board in 2015.
- Rosie Malek-Yonan is fluent in English, Assyrian, and Farsi.
- In 2006, Malek-Yonan was invited to testify on Capitol Hill at a Congressional hearing regarding the persecution of her Assyrian Christian nation in Iraq since the beginning of the 2003 Iraq War.
- In 2006 Rosie Malek-Yonan was named and awarded Woman of the Year at the 73rd Annual Assyrian Convention in Chicago, Illinois by the Assyrian American National Federation, Inc.
- In 2008, Rosie Malek-Yonan was awarded Excellence in Arts and Entertainment by IAPAC for her contributions as an actress, artist, director, author, and activist.
- Rosie Malek-Yonan is sister of Monica Malek-Yonan.
- Theatre critic, Martin Hernandez of LA Weekly wrote, "Superbly acted and directed...Director Rosie Malek-Yonan honed the works to perfection, even down to the fitting choice of songs for transitions and intermission.".
- Bruce Feld, Los Angeles theatre critic, wrote: "Very well directed by Rosie Malek-Yonan...The material is very tricky, but Malek-Yonan handles it with requisite sensitivity, without in any way watering down the heavy conflict...Sparks ignite...". In another review Feld wrote: "Rosie Malek-Yonan has done an excellent job directing...top-of-the-line and what might have become a sketch in other hands becomes a poignant episode of universal import...exceptional direction.".
- Rosie Malek-Yonan is the niece of costume designer Julia Lazar Julia Lazar.
- Rosie Malek-Yonan studied English at Cambridge; acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Pasadena Playhouse; and music at San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
- Rosie Malek-Yonan is a cousin of Terrence Malick.
- During Women's History Month in 2017, Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert Kennedy Center Human Rights said, "Rosie Malek-Yonan fearlessly shines light of the challenges of the Assyrians in Iraq. When asked what word she would use to describe Assyrians, she responded, "We remain tolerant. Perhaps one day our oppressors will learn to be tolerant as well. They will have to in order to become a democratic society. Kerry Kennedy also said that Rosie strives for peaceful conflict resolution in the face of violence. "Assyria will never be abandoned because I am not alone in the peaceful battle for her.".
- Rosie Malek-Yonan is a descendant of one of the oldest and most prominent Assyrian Christian families from the Middle East. Her surname, "Malek", is a title of nobility that her family has held for eleven centuries. The title is passed from generation to generation regardless of gender.
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