Born in
Palma de Mallorca, her parents are from
Avilés, Asturias where she spent summers in her childhood. One of her nephews is TPA journalist Giuseppe Montoto. In the 1980s, during the
Movida cultural movement, she moved to Madrid. In 1984, she founded the pop music group
Peor Impossible, for which she was a singer and a dancer. In 1986, she met Pedro Almodóvar in a café in Madrid. He was impressed by her performance during one of the group's concerts. He proposed a role in his next film,
Law of Desire. Rossy lent some of her personal dresses to
Carmen Maura, who was playing the lead trans female character of the film, Tina Quintero. where she acts and models. As of 2010, she is a theater actress, charity spokeswoman for the Ghanaian charity OrphanAid Africa, and the face of luxury ad campaigns. In 2007, she released a perfume line under her name with
Etat libre d'Orange. In 2009, she posed nude in an information campaign on breast cancer for the magazine
Marie Claire. She was selected to be on the jury for the main competition section of the
2015 Cannes Film Festival. In 2022, Rossy de Palma was appointed
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for
cultural diversity. == Other work ==