Rose Kennedy Schlossberg (born June 25, 1988) is an American actress, the oldest child of Caroline Kennedy, and first-born grandchild of John F. Kennedy. She is a 2010 graduate of Harvard University. Schlossberg has been described as a

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of her maternal grandmother,

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. In 2016, Schlossberg, along with Mara Nelson-Greenberg, co-launched ''End Time Girls Club'', an

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- apocalyptic web series on YouTube.

Early life

Schlossberg was born on June 25, 1988, at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City,

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, to designer Edwin Schlossberg and Caroline Kennedy, the oldest and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife

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.Heymann, 2007, p. 5. She was named after her maternal great-grandmother, Rose Kennedy. Schlossberg has two younger siblings,

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and Jack. Schlossberg's mother is a Catholic of Irish,

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, and English descent, while her father comes from an Orthodox Jewish family of

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descent. She was raised in her mother's religion, but also observes Jewish traditions, holidays and holy days. During her early childhood, Schlossberg attended Brearley School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.Heymann, 2007, p. 359. In first grade, she went on a school

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to the

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accompanied by her grandmother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. "She was the only grandparent in the group," said a father whose daughter was in the same class as Schlossberg. In 1999, Schlossberg's uncle

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, with whom she was close, died in a plane crash.

Education

In 2006, Schlossberg enrolled at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she earned a bachelor's degree in

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, took film courses, and cultivated an interest in fashion. She graduated in 2010, going back to school a year later—at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) —earning a Master of Professional Studies in 2013.

Career

In 2016, Schlossberg co-launched a comedy and

- apocalyptic web series with Mara Nelson-Greenberg, titled ''End Times Girls Club'', produced by

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. The series follows two twentysomething young women, Bee (portrayed by Schlossberg) and Lara (portrayed by Nelson-Greenberg), as they give women comic tips to surviving the

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. "It came up as a response to seeing the way that New York City responded to Hurricane Sandy, and how people were grossly underprepared – specifically, girls in

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mode," Schlossberg told ''

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''. "I thought it would be interesting to create this world where girls have to be survivalists without compromising their cute factor."

Politics

During the

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, Schlossberg donated to Barack Obama's 2008 campaign and volunteered for

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's campaign for the United States Senate in the 2010 special election in Massachusetts.

References

External links

''End Time Girls Club''
eb television series official website, in which Schlossberg portrays main character Bee. {{DEFAULTSORT:Schlossberg, Rose Kennedy 1988 births Living people 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses American people of English descent American people of French descent American people of Irish descent American people of Scottish descent American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Bouvier family Kennedy family Harvard University alumni New York University alumni American women comedians Actresses from New York City American Roman Catholics American YouTubers American web series actresses Brearley School alumni 21st-century American comedians People from the Upper East Side American female YouTubers