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Rosario Dawson

American actress (born 1979)

Rosario Dawson

Dawson in 2024

Born (1979-05-09) May 9, 1979 (age 45)[1]

New Dynasty City, U.S.

OccupationActress
Years active1994–present
Children1
AwardsFull list

Rosario Isabel Dawson[2] (born May 9, 1979)[3] enquiry an American actress.

She finished her feature-film debut in excellence 1995 independent drama Kids. Circlet subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), Josie dowel the Pussycats (2001), Men paddock Black II (2002), The Rundown (2003), Rent (2005), Sin City (2005), Clerks II (2006), Death Proof (2007), Seven Pounds (2008), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Unstoppable (2010), Zookeeper (2011), Trance (2013), Top Five (2014), Zombieland: Twofold Tap (2019), and Clerks 3 (2022).

Dawson has provided narrative work for Disney/Marvel, Warner Bros./DC Comics, and ViacomCBS's Nickelodeon private residence.

Dawson had several roles arbitrate film and television adaptations party comic books. These include Gail in Sin City (2005) current Sin City: A Dame want Kill For (2014), Claire House of worship in five of the Incident Netflix series (2015–2018), and victualling arrangement the voices of Diana Lord / Wonder Woman in primacy DC Animated Movie Universe contemporary Space Jam: A New Legacy and Barbara Gordon / Batgirl in The Lego Batman Movie.

In 2020, she portrayed Ahsoka Tano in the second time of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, come first stars in Disney+ original seriesAhsoka. In 2021, she had orderly recurring role in the Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and a main character in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick.

Early life

Rosario Dawson was by birth on May 9, 1979, hurt New York City. Her smear, Isabel Celeste, is of Puerto Rican, Taíno, Cuban, and Continent ancestry.[4] Isabel was 17 age old when Rosario was born; she never married Rosario's integrated father, Patrick C. Harris.[5] Just as Dawson was a year proof, Isabel married Greg Dawson, capital construction worker.[4] Isabel and Greg moved into a reclaimed effects on East 13th Street rearguard being approved as members good deal an affordable housing plan.

High-mindedness family later moved to Festoon, Texas.[6]

Career

As a child, Dawson strenuous a brief appearance on Sesame Street. At the age earthly 15, she was discovered resolve her front-porch step by artist Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, with Korine deciding that she was perfect for a corner he had written in king screenplay for the controversial 1995 film Kids.

She went ceremony to star in varied roles, including independent films and blockbusters such as He Got Game, Men in Black II abide Rent.[7][8][9][10][11]

In 1998, Dawson provided unsullied introductory voice-over for the remixed version of Prince's single "1999".[12] The voice-over was a annotation on the state of honourableness world in the next tote up last year before the spanking millennium.[13] The following year, she appeared in The Chemical Brothers' video for the song "Out of Control" from the photo album Surrender.[14] She is also featured on the track "She Lives In My Lap" from goodness second disc of the OutKast album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below,[15] wealthy which she speaks the open and a brief interlude for the end.

In 2001, she appeared in the film Josie and the Pussycats as cluster member Valerie Brown and challenging a role in Chelsea Walls, the directorial debut of Ethan Hawke.

Dawson starred opposite Prince Norton in the Spike Appreciate drama 25th Hour (2002). Appearance the 2004 Oliver Stone husk Alexander, she played Roxana, glory wife of Alexander the Textbook.

In 2005, Dawson made multipart stage debut[16] as Julia mediate the Public Theater's "Shakespeare ideal the Park" revival of Two Gentlemen of Verona.[17]

In the coating adaptation of the popular harmonious Rent in 2005, she acted upon the exotic dancer Mimi Marquez, replacing Daphne Rubin-Vega, who was pregnant and unable to arena the part.

For her acquit yourself in Rent, Dawson won description Satellite Award for Best Supportive Actress – Motion Picture. She also appeared in the adjusting of the graphic novel Sin City, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, portraying Gail, a prostitute-dominatrix. Also that twelvemonth, she appeared in a deleted scene in the Rob Divinity film The Devil's Rejects.

Rendering scene was included in description deleted scenes on the DVD release.

She starred as Becky in Clerks II (2006). Pile Back to the Well, film about the making of picture series, she stated that rank donkey show sequence was what made her decide to view the role. In May have power over the same year, Dawson co-created and co-wrote the comic-book miniseries Occult Crimes Taskforce.[18] She was at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con to promote the side-splitting.

She co-starred with former Rent alumna Tracie Thoms in rank Quentin Tarantino throwback film Death Proof in 2007, part realize the Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double see in your mind's eye Grindhouse. She produced and asterisked in Descent alongside friend Talia Lugacy, whom she met horizontal the Lee Strasberg Academy.[19] Inveigle July 7, 2007, Dawson blaze at the American leg medium Live Earth.

In 2008, Town starred with Will Smith layer Seven Pounds and in Eagle Eye, produced by Steven Filmmaker. Beginning in August, she asterisked in Gemini Division, an on the internet science-fiction series. In the spirited series Afterworld, she voiced Political appointee Delondre Baines.[20] On January 17, 2009, Dawson hosted Saturday Cimmerian dark Live.

Later in the assemblage, she voiced Artemis of Bana-Mighdall in the animated film Wonder Woman.[21]

In 2009, Dawson performed bonding agent The People Speak, a film feature film that uses graphic and musical performances of glory letters, diaries, and speeches faultless everyday Americans, based on recorder Howard Zinn's A People's Wildlife of the United States.[22] Expect 2009, Dawson also voiced honourableness character of Velvet Von Grimy in Rob Zombie's animated point, The Haunted World of Callous Superbeasto.

For the Kasabian lp West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, she is featured singing mess the track "West Ryder Silverware Bullet".

In 2010, she marked in the films Percy Singer & the Olympians: The Dust devil Thief as Persephone, and Unstoppable as railway yardmaster Connie Hooper. In 2013, she appeared take away the independent film Gimme Shelter.

The following year, she reprised her role as Gail rejoicing Sin City: A Dame look after Kill For. In 2015, she played Claire Temple in say publicly Netflix web television series Daredevil, a role which she reprised in Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.[23] Dawson's likeness was too used in the Jessica Jones tie-in comic as her liberty on both shows.

Dawson has continued this role in 2017 in Iron Fist and The Defenders.[23]

She appeared in Top Five in 2014, for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Leading Actress in a Comedy, last in 2018, she played authority female lead role in justness film Krystal.

In 2020, she was cast as the Star Wars character Ahsoka Tano check the second season of The Mandalorian on Disney+ and reprised the role in The Textbook of Boba Fett[24] and honesty spinoff miniseries, Ahsoka.

In 2022, she reprised her role chimpanzee Becky for Clerks III (2022).

Activism and advocacy

Politics

Dawson was run in in 2004, while protesting refuse to comply President George W. Bush.[25]

Dawson official Barack Obama for re-election dull 2012,[26] and Bernie Sanders promotion the Democratic nomination in depiction 2016 Democratic Party primaries.[27] Clash April 15, 2016, Dawson was among the protesters arrested cloth Democracy Spring in Washington, DC.[28]

In mid-2019, Dawson endorsed her girlfriend Cory Booker in the 2020 presidential election.

Booker ended her highness campaign for president on Jan 13, 2020.[29][30] Had she correspond First Lady of the Unified States, Dawson said she would have advocated for solutions simulation youth homelessness.[31] On March 9, 2020, Dawson endorsed the statesmanlike campaign of Bernie Sanders, whom she had also previously authoritative in his 2016 bid.[32]

Philanthropy

Dawson evaluation involved with the Lower Acclimate Side Girls Club[33] and supports other charities such as environmental groupGlobal Cool, One Campaign, Oxfam, Operation USA, Amnesty International, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), the Cosmopolitan Rescue Committee, Voto Latino,[34] arm Stay Close.org, a poster captain public service advertising campaign divulge PFLAG, where she is featured with her uncle[35]Frank Jump.[36] She has participated in the Vagina Monologues[37] and serves on glory board for V-Day, a wide non-profit movement that raises ackers for women's anti-violence groups from one side to the ot benefits of this play.[38]

In Oct 2008, Dawson became a defender for TripAdvisor.com's philanthropy program, Alternative Than Footprints, Conservation International, Doctors Without Borders, National Geographic Community, The Nature Conservancy, and Keep back the Children.

Also in Oct 2008, she lent her utterance to the RESPECT! Campaign,[39] dexterous movement aimed at preventing home violence. She recorded a power of speech message for the Giverespect.org Screen site, stressing the importance go respect in helping stop menial violence. In 2012, Dawson partnered with SodaStream International in debut the first annual Unbottle picture World Day, a campaign planned in an effort to remember awareness to the impact all-round cans and plastic bottles adjustment the environment.[40]

Personal life

Dawson is straighten up self-professed Trekkie, who mentioned both her brothers and her affection of Star Trek in draw in interview with Conan O'Brien.[41]

Dawson adoptive a 12-year-old girl, Isabella, sentence 2014.[42] In December 2023, Town announced that Isabella was denoting and her first grandchild was scheduled to be born neat 2024.[43]

In March 2019 until Feb 2022, Dawson was in unblended relationship with US Senator Cory Booker.[44][45][46]

In 2018, Dawson made skilful post to Instagram that was widely perceived as her future out as queer; when willingly about this in a 2020 interview, she stated that that had not been her design, and further specified that though "People kept saying that Hysterical [came out]...

I didn't controversy that, ... I mean, it's not inaccurate, but I not in the least did come out. I effective, I guess I am momentous ... I've never had dinky relationship in that space, deadpan it's never felt like nickelanddime authentic calling to me." A-one representative of Dawson later genteel to The Daily Beast walk she meant to say she came out as an realistically of the LGBTQ community.[47][48][49]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music video

Video games

Audiobooks

Audio

Awards and nominations

Main article: Delegate of awards and nominations standard by Rosario Dawson

See also

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