Rosalie Lynette Kunoth was born on 4 January 1937 in Utopia, Northern Territory (Arapunya), to the parents of the Anmatyerre people.
Her paternal grandfather, Harry Kunoth, was German, hence her German surname. He and her grandmother, Amelia Kunoth, co-managed several cattle stations in the Northern Territory.
Mrs. Kunoth-Monks was cast in the title role of “Jedda,” a film directed by Charles Chauvel and written by Mr. Chauvel and his wife, Elsa. The film tells the story of a teenager who is raised apart from her Aboriginal culture by a white woman after her mother dies in childbirth. Eventually, she is abducted by an Aboriginal man (played by Robert Tudawali).
Kunoth-Monks died in Alice Springs on 26 January 2022, she was 85 years old at the time of her death. The cause of death and how she died have not yet been disclosed.
But it is suspected that she died as a result of old age and its associated complications.