<Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> (1971 - 07 - 18) 18 July 1971 (age 47) Putaruru, New Zealand </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1994--2012 </Td> </Tr> <P> Sarah McLeod (born 18 July 1971) is a New Zealand film and television actress . Her most notable role was in the Peter Jackson films The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Rosie Cotton, a female hobbit who marries Samwise Gamgee . Her daughter Maisy played Rosie and Sam's baby . McLeod also co-starred in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street as Cindy Watson from 2008 to 2009 . </P> <P> McLeod knew Liz Mulane, the casting director of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings from an earlier film of his that she had appeared in called Forgotten Silver . McLeod was six - months pregnant when she auditioned for the role of Rosie Cotton, a female hobbit . Four months later, she was told that she had won the role . She explained, "This was after I had the baby, so my first day on the set, the baby was 12 weeks old . So from the first time I auditioned for the role, until the whole thing comes out, the third film, my baby will be four years old, it just goes to show you how big and long this production is ." Her daughter, Maisy, played the infant son of Rosie and Samwise Gamgee, seen in the final scene of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King . The New Zealand Herald observed in 2004 that McLeod was "notable for having the most significant role of the few New Zealand actresses in the trilogy ." </P>

Who played rosie cotton in the lord of the rings