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 This stunning and resourceful actress has been primarily a film player thus far. Only recently has she been opening herself up more to doing television (the series Gemini Division (2008), which she executive-produced), and animated voice-overs. Dawson's powerhouse talent stands out the most in edgy, urban filming that dates back to 1995 when she was only sixteen.A rags-to-riches article entitled "Rosario Dawson: From Tenement to Tinseltown" probably says it all. Rosario was born on May 9, 1979 in New York City. Her mother, Isabel Celeste, of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban descent, is a singer, and her stepfather, who raised her, Greg Dawson, of Irish descent, is a construction laborer. Her parents, who married when both were teenagers, eventually divorced. Rosario and her younger brother, Clay Dawson, had it hard while growing up, and were cared for by family members, most of whom were poverty-stricken, and some of whom were HIV-positive.Her career actually started as a child when she made a minor showing on the children's show, Sesame Street (1969). As the story goes, she was "discovered" as an adolescent on her front porch step by two photographers. One of them, Harmony Korine, was an aspiring screenwriter who thought the inexperienced sixteen-year-old was ideal for the controversial cult film Kids (1995), in which she would portray a sexually active adolescent. It took time for Rosario's film career to kick in after that, but by the late 1990s, she had nabbed several independent films. Since then, she has moved into main-stream hits (and misses) and has surprised viewers with her earthy, provocative, uninhibited approach to her roles.Reflecting New York's tougher, tawdrier side as assorted streetwalkers, homeless mothers, drug addicts, etc., her film highlights have included Light It Up (1999), Edward Burns' Sidewalks of New York (2001), Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002) and Shattered Glass (2003). For Oliver Stone, she portrayed the duped bride of Colin Farrell's famed B.C. Macedonian warrior, Alexander (2004) (as in "...the Great"), which featured a notoriously violent-tinged nude/sex scene.Expanding her horizons beyond film, she has always expressed interest in singing. She hooked up with Prince for the re-release of his 1980s hit "1999" and appeared in The Chemical Brothers' video for the song "Out of Control" from the album "Surrender". She is also featured on the Outkast track, "She Lives in My Lap". On stage, she co-starred as Julia in a revival of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" at the Public Theater's "Shakespeare in the Park" and appeared in "The Vagina Monologues".She lucked into and got to show off her singing chops in the film adaptation of the hit New York musical Rent (2005), when Daphne Rubin-Vega, the original Mimi, became pregnant and was unable to reprise her exotic dancer role. Rosario also appeared as a prostitute in the adaptation of the graphic novel Sin City (2005). Of late, she has turned to producing. One of those, Descent (2007), had her playing a college coed who is brutally attacked and raped by a fellow student. Her more popular ventures have thus far included the role of Valerie Brown in the live-action version of the comic strip Josie and the Pussycats (2001), the Will Smith starrer Men in Black II (2002), Eagle Eye (2008) with Shia LaBeouf and Seven Pounds (2008), again with Smith, in which she offered one of her more tender-hearted performances as a woman with a potentially fatal heart condition.More recent millennium films opposite some of Hollywood's top leading movie men include the tense actioneer Unstoppable (2010) with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine; the comedy/fantasy Zookeeper (2011) opposite Dalekmania (1995); romantic dramedy 10 Years (2011) with Channing Tatum; crime drama Fire with Fire (2012) with Bruce Willis; romantic comedy Top Five (2014) with Chris Rock; and action adventure Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) with Woody Harrelson. She has also top-lined independent films with her own feisty characters such as the thriller Unforgettable (2017) and the title role in the dramedy Krystal (2017).Focusing also on TV projects, Rosario has graced such action series/mini-series as Daredevil (2015), Iron Fist (2017) and The Defenders (2017), as well as the comedy Jane the Virgin (2014) and animated cartoon series The Last Kids on Earth (2019).Off-camera, the still-single Dawson is highly active in political, social and environmental causes and has been involved with such organizations/charities/campaigns as the Lower East Side Girls Club, Global Cool, the O.N.E. Campaign, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Control Arms, International Rescue Committee, Voto Latino (which she founded), Conservation International, Doctors Without Borders, National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy and Save the Children. In October 2008, she lent her voice to the RESPECT! Campaign, a movement aimed at preventing domestic violence.
Bio:
This stunning and resourceful actress has been primarily a film player thus far. Only recently has she been opening herself up more to doing television (the series Gemini Division (2008), which she executive-produced), and animated voice-overs. Dawson's powerhouse talent stands out the most in edgy, urban filming that dates back to 1995 when she was only sixteen.A rags-to-riches article entitled "Rosario Dawson: From Tenement to Tinseltown" probably says it all. Rosario was born on May 9, 1979 in New York City. Her mother, Isabel Celeste, of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban descent, is a singer, and her stepfather, who raised her, Greg Dawson, of Irish descent, is a construction laborer. Her parents, who married when both were teenagers, eventually divorced. Rosario and her younger brother, Clay Dawson, had it hard while growing up, and were cared for by family members, most of whom were poverty-stricken, and some of whom were HIV-positive.Her career actually started as a child when she made a minor showing on the children's show, Sesame Street (1969). As the story goes, she was "discovered" as an adolescent on her front porch step by two photographers. One of them, Harmony Korine, was an aspiring screenwriter who thought the inexperienced sixteen-year-old was ideal for the controversial cult film Kids (1995), in which she would portray a sexually active adolescent. It took time for Rosario's film career to kick in after that, but by the late 1990s, she had nabbed several independent films. Since then, she has moved into main-stream hits (and misses) and has surprised viewers with her earthy, provocative, uninhibited approach to her roles.Reflecting New York's tougher, tawdrier side as assorted streetwalkers, homeless mothers, drug addicts, etc., her film highlights have included Light It Up (1999), Edward Burns' Sidewalks of New York (2001), Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002) and Shattered Glass (2003). For Oliver Stone, she portrayed the duped bride of Colin Farrell's famed B.C. Macedonian warrior, Alexander (2004) (as in "...the Great"), which featured a notoriously violent-tinged nude/sex scene.Expanding her horizons beyond film, she has always expressed interest in singing. She hooked up with Prince for the re-release of his 1980s hit "1999" and appeared in The Chemical Brothers' video for the song "Out of Control" from the album "Surrender". She is also featured on the Outkast track, "She Lives in My Lap". On stage, she co-starred as Julia in a revival of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" at the Public Theater's "Shakespeare in the Park" and appeared in "The Vagina Monologues".She lucked into and got to show off her singing chops in the film adaptation of the hit New York musical Rent (2005), when Daphne Rubin-Vega, the original Mimi, became pregnant and was unable to reprise her exotic dancer role. Rosario also appeared as a prostitute in the adaptation of the graphic novel Sin City (2005). Of late, she has turned to producing. One of those, Descent (2007), had her playing a college coed who is brutally attacked and raped by a fellow student. Her more popular ventures have thus far included the role of Valerie Brown in the live-action version of the comic strip Josie and the Pussycats (2001), the Will Smith starrer Men in Black II (2002), Eagle Eye (2008) with Shia LaBeouf and Seven Pounds (2008), again with Smith, in which she offered one of her more tender-hearted performances as a woman with a potentially fatal heart condition.More recent millennium films opposite some of Hollywood's top leading movie men include the tense actioneer Unstoppable (2010) with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine; the comedy/fantasy Zookeeper (2011) opposite Dalekmania (1995); romantic dramedy 10 Years (2011) with Channing Tatum; crime drama Fire with Fire (2012) with Bruce Willis; romantic comedy Top Five (2014) with Chris Rock; and action adventure Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) with Woody Harrelson. She has also top-lined independent films with her own feisty characters such as the thriller Unforgettable (2017) and the title role in the dramedy Krystal (2017).Focusing also on TV projects, Rosario has graced such action series/mini-series as Daredevil (2015), Iron Fist (2017) and The Defenders (2017), as well as the comedy Jane the Virgin (2014) and animated cartoon series The Last Kids on Earth (2019).Off-camera, the still-single Dawson is highly active in political, social and environmental causes and has been involved with such organizations/charities/campaigns as the Lower East Side Girls Club, Global Cool, the O.N.E. Campaign, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Control Arms, International Rescue Committee, Voto Latino (which she founded), Conservation International, Doctors Without Borders, National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy and Save the Children. In October 2008, she lent her voice to the RESPECT! Campaign, a movement aimed at preventing domestic violence.
Tivia:
Discovered sitting on her front porch in New York City and asked if she wanted to be in a movie. That movie was Kids (1995).She was homeless and lived in abandoned apartments virtually all of her adolescence.Is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Institute, along with such actors as Frank Miranda, Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, Dennis Hopper and Julia Roberts.Rosario was raised in Manhattan. Rosario's mother, Isabel Celeste, is a writer and professional vocalist, who has Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban ancestry. Rosario's biological father's name is Patrick C. Harris. Rosario's mother married Greg Dawson, a caucasian construction worker who raised Rosario and gave her his surname.Is a huge fan of the Star Trek franchise, and even speaks broken Klingon language.Has an adopted daughter, Isabella Dawson. On a November 2021 Parent's Magazine "We are family" podcast, Rosario stated that her daughter, whom she adopted in 2014 at the age of 11, is named Isabella, and was never Lola. "I don't know where it came from, but somebody decided that her name was Lola and then everyone just kept running with it," the actress said.Has her own production company called Trybe.Never knew her biological father. Her adoptive father Greg Dawson met Rosario's mother when she was eight months pregnant with her.Attended an alternative school in downtown Manhattan, where she harbored aspirations of one day becoming a marine biologist.Her uncle is comic book artist Gustavo Vazquez.Although she is relatively tall at 5"7", she is quite short compared to the rest of her family. Her mother is six feet tall, her father is six-feet three inches tall and her brother is nearly a foot taller than her at six-feet five inches.Co-created the comic book "Occult Crimes Taskforce" (2006).Is a real-life train aficionado who travels on trains all over the world, wherever and whenever possible.Her mother was sixteen when she gave birth to her.Attended and graduated from Garland High School in Garland, Texas.Her character from Rent (2005), Mimi, is modeled after the character Mimi in Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme".Originally had a small role as a nurse in the horror film The Devil's Rejects (2005). Her character was cut out of the theatrical release after director Rob Zombie decided to remove the character Dr. Satan. Her character was to be killed off within forty seconds of her entrance.In a romantic relationship with Senator Cory Booker since December 2018, having first met at a political fundraiser for former NAACP president Ben Jealous.Is a huge fan of the webcomic "Homestuck".Has a younger brother: Clay Dawson.Her birthdate holds the record for the hottest May 9th ever in New York City at an approximate 97 degrees.Lives in Los Angeles.(November 9, 2006) Broke up with Jason Lewis.Supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.Her uncle is a teacher known as Uncle Frank or Mr. JumpDaughter of Isabel Dawson.Lives with Jason Lewis in Los Angeles, California. (November 2005) |
| Name: |
Rosario Dawson |
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Actress,Producer,Director (IMDB) |
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All World |
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IMDB |
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Business scope: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
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Actress,Producer,Director |
| Model rank: |
230 |
| Last update: |
2024-07-01 02:52:30 |
| Height: |
5' 7' (1.70 m) |
| Biography: |
This stunning and resourceful actress has been primarily a film player thus far. Only recently has she been opening herself up more to doing television (the series Gemini Division (2008), which she executive-produced), and animated voice-overs. Dawso |
| Trivia: |
Discovered sitting on her front porch in New York City and asked if she wanted to be in a movie. That movie was Kids (1995).She was homeless and lived in abandoned apartments virtually all of her adolescence.Is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Institute, along with such actors as Frank Miranda, Mickey Rourke, Scarlett Johansson, Dennis Hopper and Julia Roberts.Rosario was raised in Manhattan. Rosario's mother, Isabel Celeste, is a writer and professional vocalist, who has Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban ancestry. Rosario's biological father's name is Patrick C. Harris. Rosario's mother married Greg Dawson, a caucasian construction worker who raised Rosario and gave her his surname.Is a huge fan of the Star Trek franchise, and even speaks broken Klingon language.Has an adopted daughter, Isabella Dawson. On a November 2021 Parent's Magazine "We are family" podcast, Rosario stated that her daughter, whom she adopted in 2014 at the age of 11, is named Isabella, and was never Lola. "I don't know where it came from, but somebody decided that her name was Lola and then everyone just kept running with it," the actress said.Has her own production company called Trybe.Never knew her biological father. Her adoptive father Greg Dawson met Rosario's mother when she was eight months pregnant with her.Attended an alternative school in downtown Manhattan, where she harbored aspirations of one day becoming a marine biologist.Her uncle is comic book artist Gustavo Vazquez.Although she is relatively tall at 5"7", she is quite short compared to the rest of her family. Her mother is six feet tall, her father is six-feet three inches tall and her brother is nearly a foot taller than her at six-feet five inches.Co-created the comic book "Occult Crimes Taskforce" (2006).Is a real-life train aficionado who travels on trains all over the world, wherever and whenever possible.Her mother was sixteen when she gave birth to her.Attended and graduated from Garland High School in Garland, Texas.Her character from Rent (2005), Mimi, is modeled after the character Mimi in Giacomo Puccini's "La Boheme".Originally had a small role as a nurse in the horror film The Devil's Rejects (2005). Her character was cut out of the theatrical release after director Rob Zombie decided to remove the character Dr. Satan. Her character was to be killed off within forty seconds of her entrance.In a romantic relationship with Senator Cory Booker since December 2018, having first met at a political fundraiser for former NAACP president Ben Jealous.Is a huge fan of the webcomic "Homestuck".Has a younger brother: Clay Dawson.Her birthdate holds the record for the hottest May 9th ever in New York City at an approximate 97 degrees.Lives in Los Angeles.(November 9, 2006) Broke up with Jason Lewis.Supported Bernie Sanders in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.Her uncle is a teacher known as Uncle Frank or Mr. JumpDaughter of Isabel Dawson.Lives with Jason Lewis in Los Angeles, California. (November 2005) |
| Quotes: |
As an actor, there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes.
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[on what she would change about her body] I'd be taller. I'm 5' 7", but my mom is 6 feet tall. In my family, I'm short.
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If you wanted something better, you had to do it yourself.
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There's always something to learn. That's my ultimate goal. To grow and learn. |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Director |
| Others works: |
Spoken vocals on 1999 Prince and the Revolution EP "1999: The New Master," track "Rosario (1999)."
Appeared in The Chemical Brothers' music video, "Out Of Control".
(2003) Appears in Pharrell Williams' video, &quo |
| Children: |
Isabella Dawson |
| Parents: |
Isabel Celeste
Greg Dawson
Isabel Dawson
Patrick C. Harris |
| Relatives: |
Gustavo Vazquez (Aunt or Uncle)
Clay Dawson (Sibling) |
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