Rosalind Ross has a deep-rooted passion for the arts. As she shared with Hola!, “In college I studied creative writing and I thought that I might be a poet.” She also became a world-champion equestrian vaulter. As Ambition reports, she actually has more team World Championship medals than any other U.S. female vaulter. However, after moving to Los Angeles, Ross discovered the appeal of writing scripts and shifted all of her energy to that. “I just sort of tried to learn by doing and I realized that I really, really loved it,” she recalled. According to IMDb, Ross has written a 2014 short called “Homeward,” and a TV series called “Matador.” She’s also helped develop scripts for Reese Witherspoon, David Oyelowo, and Mark Wahlberg, per Ambition.
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It’s actually the latter who pushed her to try directing. When Wahlberg was working on turning the real-life story of boxer-turned-priest Father Stuart Long into a movie, he called Ross and asked her to write the script for “Father Stu.” She agreed, then he surprised her with the job of director, too. “I’m still wondering how I got involved!” she joked with the AV Club. A self-proclaimed introvert, she admitted it was scary. “The most daunting thing was knowing that I had to be around a bunch of people and in charge of them and steer the ship,” she said. Even so, she went for it and, looking ahead, she also hopes to write a book one day, per Hola!
