Actress Rose Byrne honoured as Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

Actress Rose Byrne honoured as Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

(14 Feb 2026)
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POOL
Cambridge, Massachusetts – 13 February 2026
1. Actor Rose Byrne entering Farkas Hall for celebratory roast
2. Various of Byrne on stage
3. Byrne on stage with hosts UPSOUND “Well, I mean do you see what I see, or?
Host: “Anything that comes to mind?”
Byrne: “It look like, like a vagina.”
4. Byrne on stage with hosts and person in Peter Rabbit costume UPSOUND “I don’t like it when you lie to me. Do you even care about the kids? Poor Matt and Ruby. They don’t see what’s going on, but I do. How am I supposed to stay calm when you are ruining our lives? I know you are using again.”

POOL
Cambridge, Massachusetts – 13 February 2026
1. Byrne entering press conference after accepting the 2026 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals UPSOUND “You look beautiful. I was going to wear that.”
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rose Byrne, actor:
“You know again, I’ve never had this experience before and it’s really, I think because the project is so, it’s a smaller project it didn’t have a huge budget for promotion or press and it’s a tougher subject; it isn’t a typical kind of Oscar fair, I suppose, and so it is very meaningful that the work is being recognized. The character’s really the film and I think the film’s the character so for me the acknowledgement of that is of the film and I just think it really will live on in this very fearless and radical and I’m really proud of that.”
3. Byrne and others posing for photographs
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rose Byrne, actor:
“I haven’t done a play for about 5 years and I’ve never done it so I’m absolutely terrified but Kelli O’hara is brilliant such a national treasure so I can’t wait to act opposite her.”
5. Byrne and others posing for photographs
STORYLINE:
Dozens of cheering fans lined the streets of Cambridge Friday to celebrate the Australian actress Rose Byrne, who was honored as the 2026 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Byrne is a Golden Globe Award winner and Oscar nominee for her leading role in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”.

Byrne, who also has starred in “Bridesmaids,” “Neighbors,” “Insidious” and “Damages,” later received her pudding pot award at a celebratory roast and attended a performance of Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 177th production “Salooney Tunes.”

In her review of “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” The Associated Press’ Jocelyn Noveck wrote that the film gave Byrne “a chance to display versatility and grit in surely the toughest dramatic role of her career.”

The parade included a colorful cast of characters, some in drag and bright wigs, one dressed as a cactus, and several dressed as revolutionary soldiers.

At the roast, inside Farkas Hall, Byrne was put through a mock therapy session inspired by “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”

She was asked to interpret a series of ink blots including one painting that Byrne joked looked like a “vagina.”

Based on her work in previous “Peter Rabbit” movies, she was asked to read in a scene from a new, fake entry into the series.

This one saw her confronting a rabbit under the influence of drugs who shows up late one night.

“I don’t like it when you lie. Do you even care about the kids?” Byrne yells at the rabbit, who appears to be staggering.

“How am I supposed to stay calm when you are ruining our lives? I know you are using again.”

The roast closed with Byrne donning a wedding dress and marrying the pudding pot.

“This is marvellous,” she said, after getting her gold pudding pot.

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