Rosario Dawson | |
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Born | [1] New York City, U.S. | May 9, 1979
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1994–present |
Children | 1 |
Awards | Full list |
Rosario Isabel Dawson [2] (born May 9, 1979) [3] is an American actress. She made her feature-film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids . Her subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Men in 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: Double Tap (2019), and Clerks 3 (2022). Dawson has provided voice-over work for Disney/Marvel, Warner Bros./DC Comics, and ViacomCBS's Nickelodeon unit.
Dawson had several roles in film and television adaptations of comic books. These include Gail in Sin City (2005) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Claire Temple in five of the Marvel Netflix series (2015–2018), and providing the voices of Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in the DC Animated Movie Universe and Space Jam: A New Legacy and Barbara Gordon / Batgirl in The Lego Batman Movie . In 2020, she portrayed Ahsoka Tano in the second season of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett , and stars in Disney+ original series Ahsoka . In 2021, she had a recurring role in the Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and a main role in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick .
Rosario Dawson was born on May 9, 1979, in New York City. Her mother, Isabel Celeste, is of Puerto Rican, Taíno, Cuban, and African ancestry. [4] Isabel was 17 years old when Rosario was born; she never married Rosario's biological father, Patrick C. Harris. [5] When Dawson was a year old, Isabel married Greg Dawson, a construction worker. [4] Isabel and Greg moved into a reclaimed building on East 13th Street after being approved as members of an affordable housing plan. The family later moved to Garland, Texas. [6]
As a child, Dawson made a brief appearance on Sesame Street . At the age of 15, she was discovered on her front-porch step by photographer Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, with Korine deciding that she was perfect for a part he had written in his screenplay for the controversial 1995 film Kids . She went on to star in varied roles, including independent films and blockbusters such as He Got Game, Men in Black II and Rent. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
In 1998, Dawson provided an introductory voice-over for the remixed version of Prince's single "1999". [12] The voice-over was a commentary on the state of the world in the next to last year before the new millennium. [13] The following year, she appeared in The Chemical Brothers' video for the song "Out of Control" from the album Surrender . [14] She is also featured on the track "She Lives In My Lap" from the second disc of the OutKast album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below , [15] in which she speaks the introduction and a brief interlude towards the end.
In 2001, she appeared in the film Josie and the Pussycats as band member Valerie Brown and had a role in Chelsea Walls , the directorial debut of Ethan Hawke.
Dawson starred opposite Edward Norton in the Spike Lee drama 25th Hour (2002). In the 2004 Oliver Stone film Alexander , she played Roxana, the wife of Alexander the Great. In 2005, Dawson made her stage debut [16] as Julia in the Public Theater's "Shakespeare in the Park" revival of Two Gentlemen of Verona . [17]
In the film adaptation of the popular musical Rent in 2005, she played the exotic dancer Mimi Marquez, replacing Daphne Rubin-Vega, who was pregnant and unable to play the part. For her role in Rent, Dawson won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. She also appeared in the adaptation of the graphic novel Sin City, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, portraying Gail, a prostitute-dominatrix. Also that year, she appeared in a deleted scene in the Rob Zombie film The Devil's Rejects . The scene was included in the deleted scenes on the DVD release.
She starred as Becky in Clerks II (2006). In Back to the Well, documentary about the making of the series, she stated that the donkey show sequence was what made her decide to take the role. In May of 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 comic. She co-starred with former Rent alumna Tracie Thoms in the Quentin Tarantino throwback film Death Proof in 2007, part of the Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double feature Grindhouse . She produced and starred in Descent alongside friend Talia Lugacy, whom she met at the Lee Strasberg Academy. [19] On July 7, 2007, Dawson presented at the American leg of Live Earth.
In 2008, Dawson starred with Will Smith in Seven Pounds and in Eagle Eye , produced by Steven Spielberg. Beginning in August, she starred in Gemini Division , an online science-fiction series. In the animated series Afterworld , she voiced Officer Delondre Baines. [20] On January 17, 2009, Dawson hosted Saturday Night Live . Later in the year, she voiced Artemis of Bana-Mighdall in the animated film Wonder Woman . [21]
In 2009, Dawson performed in The People Speak , a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States . [22] In 2009, Dawson also voiced the character of Velvet Von Black in Rob Zombie's animated feature, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto . For the Kasabian album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum , she is featured singing on the track "West Ryder Silver Bullet".
In 2010, she starred in the films Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Persephone, and Unstoppable as railway yardmaster Connie Hooper. In 2013, she appeared in the independent film Gimme Shelter . The following year, she reprised her role as Gail in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For . In 2015, she played Claire Temple in the Netflix web television series Daredevil , a role which she reprised in Jessica Jones and Luke Cage . [23] Dawson's likeness was also used in the Jessica Jones tie-in comic as her character 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 Best Actress in a Comedy, and in 2018, she played the female lead role in the film Krystal .
In 2020, she was cast as the Star Wars character Ahsoka Tano in the second season of The Mandalorian on Disney+ and reprised the role in The Book of Boba Fett [24] and the spinoff miniseries, Ahsoka .
In 2022, she reprised her role as Becky for Clerks III (2022).
Dawson was arrested in 2004, while protesting against President George W. Bush. [25]
Dawson endorsed Barack Obama for re-election in 2012, [26] and Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination in the 2016 Democratic Party primaries. [27] On April 15, 2016, Dawson was among the protesters arrested during Democracy Spring in Washington, DC. [28]
In mid-2019, Dawson endorsed her boyfriend Cory Booker in the 2020 presidential election. Booker ended his campaign for president on January 13, 2020. [29] [30] Had she become First Lady of the United States, Dawson said she would have advocated for solutions to youth homelessness. [31] On March 9, 2020, Dawson endorsed the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, whom she had also previously endorsed in his 2016 bid. [32]
Dawson is involved with the Lower East Side Girls Club [33] and supports other charities such as environmental group Global Cool, One Campaign, Oxfam, Operation USA, Amnesty International, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), the International Rescue Committee, Voto Latino, [34] and Stay Close.org, a poster and public service advertising campaign for PFLAG, where she is featured with her uncle [35] Frank Jump. [36] She has participated in the Vagina Monologues [37] and serves on the board for V-Day, a global non-profit movement that raises funds for women's anti-violence groups through benefits of this play. [38]
In October 2008, Dawson became a spokeswoman for TripAdvisor.com's philanthropy program, More Than Footprints, Conservation International, Doctors Without Borders, National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy, and Save the Children. Also in October 2008, she lent her voice to the RESPECT! Campaign, [39] a movement aimed at preventing domestic violence. She recorded a voice message for the Giverespect.org Web site, stressing the importance of respect in helping stop domestic violence. In 2012, Dawson partnered with SodaStream International in launching the first annual Unbottle the World Day, a campaign conceived in an effort to raise awareness to the impact of cans and plastic bottles on the environment. [40]
Dawson is a self-professed Trekkie, who mentioned both her brothers and her love of Star Trek in an interview with Conan O'Brien. [41]
Dawson adopted a 12-year-old girl, Isabella, in 2014. [42] In December 2023, Dawson announced that Isabella was pregnant and her first grandchild was scheduled to be born in 2024. [43]
In March 2019 until February 2022, Dawson was in a relationship with US Senator Cory Booker. [44] [45] [46]
In 2018, Dawson made a post to Instagram that was widely perceived as her coming out as queer; when asked about this in a 2020 interview, she stated that this had not been her intention, and further specified that although "People kept saying that I [came out]... I didn't do that, ... I mean, it's not inaccurate, but I never did come out. I mean, I guess I am now ... I've never had a relationship in that space, so it's never felt like an authentic calling to me." A representative of Dawson later clarified to The Daily Beast that she meant to say she came out as an ally of the LGBTQ community. [47] [48] [49]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2003 | Punk'd | Herself | Episode #1.8 |
2007 | Robot Chicken | Various | Voice, episode: "More Blood, More Chocolate" |
2008 | Gemini Division | Anna Diaz | Web series; 50 episodes Also executive producer |
2009 | Saturday Night Live | Herself | Episode: "Rosario Dawson/Fleet Foxes" |
SpongeBob SquarePants | Herself | Episode: "SpongeBob's Truth or Square" | |
2011 | Five | Lili | Television film |
2015–2016 | Daredevil | Claire Temple | 8 episodes |
2015 | Jessica Jones | Episode: "AKA Smile" | |
2016–2018 | Luke Cage | 11 episodes | |
2017 | Iron Fist | 6 episodes | |
The Defenders | |||
Waves for Water | Herself | Documentary | |
2018–2019 | Jane the Virgin | Jane "J.R." Ramos | 17 episodes |
2018 | Elena of Avalor | Daria | Voice, 2 episodes |
2019 | Weird City | Delt | Episode: "A Family" |
2020 | The Last Kids on Earth | Rezzoch | Voice, 7 episodes [50] |
2020 | Briarpatch | Allegra "Pick" Dill | Main role |
Make It Work! | Herself | Television special | |
The Mandalorian | Ahsoka Tano | Episode: "Chapter 13: The Jedi" | |
2020–2022 | It's Pony | Penny Ramiro | Recurring role |
2021 | Calls | Katherine | Voice, episode: "It's All In Your Head" |
Young Rock | General Monica Jackson | 2 episodes | |
Eden | A37 | Voice, English dub [51] | |
Dopesick | Bridget Meyer | Miniseries [52] | |
AEW Dynamite | Herself | Episode #2.50 [53] | |
2021–2022 | Go-Big Show | Herself (judge) | 16 episodes |
2022 | The Book of Boba Fett | Ahsoka Tano | Episode: "Chapter 6: From the Desert Comes a Stranger" |
DMZ | Alma "Zee" Ortega | Miniseries | |
Love, Death & Robots | Dr. Mirny | Episode: "Swarm" | |
2023–present | Ahsoka | Ahsoka Tano | Main role |
2024 | Terminator Zero | Kokoro | Voice [54] |
Year | Title | Artist(s) | Notes |
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1999 | "Out of Control" | The Chemical Brothers | |
2002 | "Miss You" | Aaliyah | Cameo |
2010 | "California Run" [55] | Neil Nathan | Cameo |
2012 | "Supercool" | The Bullitts | |
2016 | "Where's the Love?" | The Black Eyed Peas featuring The World | |
2017 | "Family Feud" | Jay Z featuring Beyoncé | Promo video for Tidal |
2018 | "Earth Girls" | Jesse Boykins III | Cameo |
"10,000 Hours" [56] | Fat Tony | Cameo | |
2018 | "The Space Program" | A Tribe Called Quest | Cameo [57] |
Year | Title | Voice role(s) | Notes |
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2006 | Marc Eckō's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure | Tina | |
2012 | Syndicate | Lily Drawl | |
2016 | Ratchet & Clank | Elaris | |
Dishonored 2 | Meagan Foster / Billie Lurk | ||
Lego Dimensions | Barbara Gordon / Batgirl | Credited as Rasario Dawson | |
2017 | Wilson's Heart | Elsa Wolcott | |
Dishonored: Death of the Outsider | Billie Lurk | ||
2019 | NBA 2K20 | Isa | MyCAREER Story |
2022 | Dying Light 2 Stay Human | Lawan |
Year | Title | Author |
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2017 | Artemis | Andy Weir |
Year | Title | Role | Author | Production Company |
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2021 | Batman: The Audio Adventures [58] | Selina Kyle / Catwoman | Dennis McNicholas | Blue Ribbon Content |
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