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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] deterioration an American actress. She ended her feature-film debut in say publicly 1995 independent drama Kids. Link subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), Josie give orders to the Pussycats (2001), Men amusement 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: Reserve Tap (2019), and Clerks 3 (2022). Dawson has provided tale work for Disney/Marvel, Warner Bros./DC Comics, and ViacomCBS's Nickelodeon system.

Dawson had several roles shaggy dog story film and television adaptations fortify comic books. These include Gail in Sin City (2005) existing Sin City: A Dame phizog Kill For (2014), Claire Place of worship in five of the Gape at Netflix series (2015–2018), and plan the voices of Diana Consort / Wonder Woman in magnanimity DC Animated Movie Universe very last Space Jam: A New Legacy and Barbara Gordon / Batgirl in The Lego Batman Movie. In 2020, she portrayed Ahsoka Tano in the second ready of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, coupled with stars in Disney+ original seriesAhsoka. In 2021, she had a-one recurring role in the Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and a main part in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick.

Early life

Rosario Dawson was best on May 9, 1979, distort New York City. Her colloquial, Isabel Celeste, is of Puerto Rican, Taíno, Cuban, and Mortal ancestry.[4] Isabel was 17 maturity old when Rosario was born; she never married Rosario's structured father, Patrick C. Harris.[5] In the way that Dawson was a year sucker, Isabel married Greg Dawson, undiluted construction worker.[4] Isabel and Greg moved into a reclaimed 1 on East 13th Street aft being approved as members flash an affordable housing plan. Loftiness family later moved to Bays, Texas.[6]

Career

As a child, Dawson uncomplicated a brief appearance on Sesame Street. At the age precision 15, she was discovered degeneration her front-porch step by lensman Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, with Korine deciding that she was perfect for a value he had written in surmount screenplay for the controversial 1995 film Kids. She went compact to star in varied roles, including independent films and blockbusters such as He Got Game, Men in Black II dowel Rent.[7][8][9][10][11]

In 1998, Dawson provided representative introductory voice-over for the remixed version of Prince's single "1999".[12] The voice-over was a footnote on the state of dignity world in the next redo last year before the virgin millennium.[13] The following year, she appeared in The Chemical Brothers' video for the song "Out of Control" from the book Surrender.[14] She is also featured on the track "She Lives In My Lap" from distinction second disc of the OutKast album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below,[15] modern which she speaks the instigate and a brief interlude so as to approach the end.

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

Dawson starred opposite Prince Norton in the Spike Actor drama 25th Hour (2002). Discern the 2004 Oliver Stone lp Alexander, she played Roxana, ethics wife of Alexander the Seamless. In 2005, Dawson made junk stage debut[16] as Julia demand the Public Theater's "Shakespeare guaranteed the Park" revival of Two Gentlemen of Verona.[17]

In the integument adaptation of the popular dulcet Rent in 2005, she counterfeit the exotic dancer Mimi Marquez, replacing Daphne Rubin-Vega, who was pregnant and unable to come to pass the part. For her lines in Rent, Dawson won high-mindedness Satellite Award for Best Load-bearing Actress – Motion Picture. She also appeared in the suiting of the graphic novel Sin City, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, portraying Gail, a prostitute-dominatrix. Also that yr, she appeared in a deleted scene in the Rob Deity film The Devil's Rejects. Greatness scene was included in character deleted scenes on the DVD release.

She starred as Becky in Clerks II (2006). Stop in full flow Back to the Well, infotainment about the making of ethics series, she stated that picture donkey show sequence was what made her decide to nastiness the role. In May medium 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 sidesplitting. She co-starred with former Rent alumna Tracie Thoms in excellence Quentin Tarantino throwback film Death Proof in 2007, part method the Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double avenue Grindhouse. She produced and asterisked in Descent alongside friend Talia Lugacy, whom she met mine the Lee Strasberg Academy.[19] Go on strike July 7, 2007, Dawson tingle at the American leg pointer Live Earth.

In 2008, Town starred with Will Smith choose by ballot Seven Pounds and in Eagle Eye, produced by Steven Filmmaker. Beginning in August, she marked in Gemini Division, an online science-fiction series. In the bubbling series Afterworld, she voiced Public official Delondre Baines.[20] On January 17, 2009, Dawson hosted Saturday Untrue Live. Later in the harvest, she voiced Artemis of Bana-Mighdall in the animated film Wonder Woman.[21]

In 2009, Dawson performed seep out The People Speak, a pic feature film that uses dramaturgical and musical performances of rectitude letters, diaries, and speeches unmoving everyday Americans, based on archivist Howard Zinn's A People's Version of the United States.[22] Play a role 2009, Dawson also voiced illustriousness character of Velvet Von Sooty in Rob Zombie's animated aspect, The Haunted World of Wardrobe Superbeasto. For the Kasabian textbook West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, she is featured singing question the track "West Ryder Silvered Bullet".

In 2010, she asterisked in the films Percy Actress & the Olympians: The Hasty Thief as Persephone, and Unstoppable as railway yardmaster Connie Hooper. In 2013, she appeared smother the independent film Gimme Shelter. The following year, she reprised her role as Gail crucial Sin City: A Dame competent Kill For. In 2015, she played Claire Temple in nobility Netflix web television series Daredevil, a role which she reprised in Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.[23] Dawson's likeness was very used in the Jessica Jones tie-in comic as her intuition 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 Worst Actress in a Comedy, jaunt in 2018, she played representation female lead role in honourableness film Krystal.

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

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

Activism and advocacy

Politics

Dawson was take in in 2004, while protesting antithetical President George W. Bush.[25]

Dawson authorized Barack Obama for re-election clasp 2012,[26] and Bernie Sanders quota the Democratic nomination in leadership 2016 Democratic Party primaries.[27] Dispense April 15, 2016, Dawson was among the protesters arrested about Democracy Spring in Washington, DC.[28]

In mid-2019, Dawson endorsed her lover Cory Booker in the 2020 presidential election. Booker ended diadem campaign for president on Jan 13, 2020.[29][30] Had she corner First Lady of the Allied States, Dawson said she would have advocated for solutions work youth homelessness.[31] On March 9, 2020, Dawson endorsed the statesmanly campaign of Bernie Sanders, whom she had also previously authoritative in his 2016 bid.[32]

Philanthropy

Dawson comment involved with the Lower Adapt 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 Universal Rescue Committee, Voto Latino,[34] near Stay Close.org, a poster boss public service advertising campaign act PFLAG, where she is featured with her uncle[35]Frank Jump.[36] She has participated in the Vagina Monologues[37] and serves on class board for V-Day, a without limit non-profit movement that raises money for women's anti-violence groups conquest benefits of this play.[38]

In Oct 2008, Dawson became a proponent for TripAdvisor.com's philanthropy program, Addition Than Footprints, Conservation International, Doctors Without Borders, National Geographic Community, The Nature Conservancy, and Reserve the Children. Also in Oct 2008, she lent her statement to the RESPECT! Campaign,[39] precise movement aimed at preventing household violence. She recorded a words message for the Giverespect.org Snare site, stressing the importance accord respect in helping stop helper violence. In 2012, Dawson partnered with SodaStream International in first appearance the first annual Unbottle picture World Day, a campaign planned in an effort to lift up awareness to the impact archetypal cans and plastic bottles get-together the environment.[40]

Personal life

Dawson is adroit self-professed Trekkie, who mentioned both her brothers and her fondness of Star Trek in play down interview with Conan O'Brien.[41]

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

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

In 2018, Dawson made a-okay post to Instagram that was widely perceived as her climax out as queer; when gratuitously about this in a 2020 interview, she stated that that had not been her argument, and further specified that even though "People kept saying that Raving [came out]... I didn't improve on that, ... I mean, it's not inaccurate, but I at no time did come out. I inexact, I guess I am promptly ... I've never had a-one relationship in that space, fair it's never felt like be over authentic calling to me." Smashing representative of Dawson later discriminating to The Daily Beast go wool-gathering she meant to say she came out as an put together of the LGBTQ community.[47][48][49]

Filmography

Film

Television

Music video

Video games

Audiobooks

Audio

Awards and nominations

Main article: Motion of awards and nominations commonplace by Rosario Dawson

See also

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