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Rosario Isabel Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress, singer, and writer. She has appeared in films such as Kids, Men in Black II, 25th Hour, Sin City, Clerks II, Rent, Death Proof, The Rundown, Eagle Eye, Alexander, Seven Pounds, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Unstoppable.

This book is your ultimate resource for Rosario Dawson. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Rosario Dawson, Kids (film), He Got Game, Side Streets, Light It Up (film), Down to You, King of the Jungle (film), Josie and the Pussycats (film), Sidewalks of New York (film), Chelsea Walls, Ash Wednesday (2002 film), Men in Black II, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, 25th Hour, The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, V-Day: Until the Violence Stops, This Girl's Life, Shattered Glass (film), The Rundown, Alexander (film), This Revolution, Sin City (film), Rent (film), Clerks II, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Grindhouse (film), Death Proof, Descent (2007 film), Robot Chicken, Eagle Eye, Gemini Division, Seven Pounds, Killshot (film), Wonder Woman (film), The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, Un-broke: What You Need To Know About Money, The People Speak (film), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Unstoppable (2010 film), Zookeeper (film), Girl Walks Into a Bar, Miss Representation, Ten Year, Gimme Shelter (2012 film), Fire with Fire (2012 film).

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Contents

Articles Rosario Dawson Kids (film) He Got Game Side Streets Light It Up (film) Down to You King of the Jungle (film) Josie and the Pussycats (film) Sidewalks of New York (film) Chelsea Walls Ash Wednesday (2002 film) Men in Black II The Adventures of Pluto Nash

25th Hour The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest V-Day: Until the Violence Stops This Girl's Life Shattered Glass (film) The Rundown Alexander (film) This Revolution Sin City (film) Rent (film) Clerks II A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Grindhouse (film) Death Proof Descent (2007 film) Robot Chicken Eagle Eye Gemini Division Seven Pounds

Killshot (film)

Wonder Woman (film)

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The Haunted World of El Superbeasto Un-broke: What You Need To Know About Money The People Speak (film) Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Unstoppable (2010 film) Zookeeper (film) Girl Walks Into a Bar Miss Representation Ten Year Gimme Shelter (2012 film) Fire with Fire (2012 film)

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

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Rosario Dawson

Born

Occupation

Years active

Rosario Dawson

Dawson in 2009

Rosario Isabel Dawson May 9, 1979 New York City, New York, U.S.

Actress, singer, writer

1995–present

Website

[1] Official website

Rosario Isabel Dawson(born May 9, 1979) is an American actress, singer, and writer. She has appeared in films such asKids,Men in Black II,25th Hour,Sin City,Clerks II,Rent,Death Proof,The Rundown,Eagle Eye, Alexander,Seven Pounds,Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefandUnstoppable.

Early life Dawson was born in New York City to Isabel Celeste, a writer and singer of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban descent, and Patrick C. Harris. Isabel was seventeen years old when Rosario was born, and Patrick left the family when [2] [3] Rosario was a year old. When Isabel was eighteen, she married Greg Dawson, a construction worker, who [2] [3] "loved and raised Rosario as his own daughter" (Dawson has stated that "He's always been my dad"). Dawson has a brother, Clay, who is four years younger. Her parents divorced in 2006. At the age of 26, Dawson's mother moved the family into an abandoned building squat on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where she and her husband gut renovated an apartment and installed the plumbing and electrical wiring for the building, creating affordable housing where their family and two children would grow up. Dawson has cited [4] [5] this when explaining how she learned "If you wanted something better, you had to do it yourself."

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Career As a child, Dawson made a brief appearance onSesame Street. At the age of 15, she was subsequently discovered on her front porch step by photographer Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, where Harmony lauded her as being perfect for a part he had written in his screenplay that would become the controversial 1995 filmKids. She went on to star in varied roles, ranging from independent films to big budget blockbusters includingRent,He Got Game, andMen in [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Black II. [11] In 1999, Dawson teamed up with Prince for the re-release of his 1980s hit "1999." The new remixed version featured the actress in an introductory voice over, offering commentary on the state of the world in the year before [12] the new millennium. The same year, she appeared in The Chemical Brothers' video for the song "Out of Control" [13] from the albumSurrenderis also featured on the track "She Lives In My Lap" from the second disc of the. She OutKast albumSpeakerboxxx/The Love Below, in which she speaks the intro and a brief interlude towards the end. In 2001, she appeared in the movie,Josie and the Pussycats. Dawson starred as Naturelle Rivera, the love interest of a convicted drug dealer played by Edward Norton, in the 2002 Spike Lee film drama,25th Hour. In the 2004 Oliver Stone filmAlexander, she played the bride of Alexander the Great. In the autumn of 2005, Dawson appeared on stage as Julia in the Public Theater's "Shakespeare in the [14] Park" revival ofTwo Gentlemen of Verona. It was her first appearance on stage.“That park is so beautiful,”she said of New [15] York's Central Park. Dawson researching her role inEagle Eye, 2007 In the film adaptation of the popular musicalRentin 2005, she played the exotic dancer Mimi Marquez, replacing Daphne Rubin-Vega, who was pregnant and unable to play the part. She also appeared in the adaptation of the graphic novelSin City, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, portraying Gail, a prostitute-dominatrix. Also in that year, she appeared in a graphically violent scene in the Rob Zombie filmThe Devil's Rejects. Though the scene was cut from the final film, it is available in the deleted scenes on the DVD release.

She starred as Becky in 2006'sClerks II, and mentioned inBack to the Well, the making-of documentary, that the donkey show sequence was what made her decide to take the role. In May of the same year, Dawson, an avid comic book [16] fan, co-created the comic book miniseriesOccult Crimes Taskforce. She was at the 2007 Comic-Con to promote the comic. She co-starred with formerRent alum Tracie Thoms in the Quentin Tarantino throwback movieDeath Proofin 2007, part of the Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double featureGrind House. She teamed up with friend Talia Lugacy, whom she met at the Lee Strasberg [17] Academy, to produce and star inDescent.On July 7, 2007, Dawson presented at the American leg of Live Earth.

In 2008, Dawson starred with Will Smith inSeven Poundsand in the Steven Spielberg producedEagle Eye. Beginning in August, she starred inGemini Division, an online TV series. In the computer animated seriesAfterworldshe [18] voiced the character Officer Delondre Baines. On January 17, 2009, Dawson hosted Saturday Night Live. Later in the year, she voiced Artemis of [19] Bana-Mighdall in the animated filmWonder Woman.

Dawson at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2009, Dawson performed inThe 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'sA [20] People's History of the United States.

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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 albumWest Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, she is featured singing on the track "West Ryder Silver Bullet". In 2010, she starred in the moviesPercy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, as Persephone, and Unstoppable, as railway yardmaster Connie.

Personal life Dawson dated formerSex and the Citystar Jason Lewis for two years. They lived together in Los Angeles until they [21] separated in November 2006. [22] [23] Dawson is involved with the Lower East Side Girls Club and supports other charities such as environmental group Global Cool, the ONE Campaign, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Stay Close.org (a poster and public service ad campaign for PFLAG where she is featured with her uncle [24] [25] Frank Jump), International Rescue Committee, and Voto Latino, [25] [26] and she participated in theVagina Monologues. She is on the V-Day Board. She attended both the Democratic National Convention Dawson at the 2008 Willow Awards as well as the Republican National Convention in 2008. In October 2008, Dawson became a spokeswoman for TripAdvisor.com’s [27] [28] philanthropy program, More Than Footprints, involving Conservation International, Doctors Without Borders, National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy, and Save The Children. Also in October 2008, she [29] lent her voice to the RESPECT! Campaign, 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.

Dawson is a supporter of Arsenal Football Club. On February 16, 2011, before an Arsenal FC vs FC Barcelona UEFA Champions League match, Dawson wrote on her official Twitter account: "I'll be happy with either team [30] winning cuz I love them both but yes I'm a Gunner first & foremost sooooo #gooooArsenal."

Filmography

Year

1995

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

Kids

Girls' Night Out

He Got Game

Side Streets

Light It Up

Down to You

King of the Jungle

Josie and the Pussycats

Sidewalks of New York

Trigger Happy

Chelsea Walls

Title

Ruby

Girl

Role

Lala Bonilla

Marisol Hidalgo

Stephanie Williams

Lana

Veronica

Valerie Brown

Maria Tedesko

Dee

Audrey

Short Film

Notes

Persephone

Kate

Gail

Andy Fox

Connie Hooper

Martine

Mariana

This Revolution

Tina Santiago

Roxana

Grace Quinonez

Girl Walks Into a Bar

Naturelle Riviera

Alisa

Dina Lake

Anna

Laura Vasquez

Grindhouse: Death Proof

The Rundown

2007

2004

Alexander

Little Black Dress

2005

Sin City

Rent

Clerks II

2006

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

2008

Explicit Ills

Eagle Eye

Robot Chicken

Wonder Woman

The Haunted World of El Superbeasto

Gemini Division

This Girl's Life

2009

Killshot

25th Hour

Rosario Dawson

2002

The Adventures of Pluto Nash

V-Day: Until the Violence Stops

2003

Shattered Glass

The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest

Seven Pounds

Herself

Descent

Voice Only

TV Movie

The People Speak

Pre-Production

TV Series: 1 Episode

Documentary

SpongeBob's Truth or Square

TV Series: 30 episodes Also Executive Producer

Fire with Fire

Gimme Shelter

Unstoppable

2010

Trance

2013

Miss Representation

Ten Year

2012

Artemis

Velvet Von Black

Talia Durham

June Bailey

Mary

Love in the Time of Money

Babo's Mom

Rebecca "Becky" Scott

Mimi Marquez

Donna

Laurie

Abernathy Ross

Men in Black II

Herself

Ash Wednesday

Zoe Perez

Zookeeper

2011

Emily Posa

Maya

Un-broke: What You Need To Know About Money

Clara Palmer

June

Haley

Anna Diaz

TV Series: 1 Episode

Herself

NAACP Image Award For Best Actress

Herself

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Herself

Documentary

Voice Only

Also Producer

Short Film

Documentary

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Awards and nominations ALMA Awards 2006, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Rent)Nominated American Black Film Festival 2004, Rising Star AwardWon Black Movie Awards 2006, Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Rent)Nominated Black Reel Awards 2006, Best Actress (Rent)Nominated 2006, Best Ensemble (Rent)Nominated 2006, Best Supporting Actress (Sin City)Nominated 2003, Best Supporting Actress (25th Hour)Nominated 2000, Best Actress (Light It Up)Nominated Broadcast Film Critics 2006, Best Song (Rent) "Seasons of Love"Nominated Image Awards 2009, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture (Seven Pounds)Won 2006, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture (Rent)Nominated 2000, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture (Light It Up)Nominated MTV Movie Awards 2006, Best Kiss (Sin City)Nominated Satellite Awards 2006, Best Supporting Actress Comedy or Musical (Rent)Won Spike Video Game Awards 2006, Gamer's Choice: Breakthrough PerformanceWon Streamy Awards 2009, Best Female Actor in a Dramatic Web SeriesWon Teen Choice Awards 2001, Film - Choice Breakout Performance (Josie and the Pussycats)Nominated [31] 2010, Choice Movie Actress: Fantasy (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief)Nominated

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External links Official website (http://rosario-dawson.net) Rosario Dawson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm206257/) at the Internet Movie Database Rosario Dawson (http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Rosario& last=Dawson&middle=) at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

Kids (film)

Kids

French theatrical release poster

Directed by

Produced by

Written by

Starring

Music by

Cinematography

Editing by

Distributed by

Release date(s)

Running time

Country

Language

Budget

Box office

Larry Clark

Christine Vachon Gus Van Sant Cary Woods Cathy Konrad

Larry Clark Harmony Korine

Leo Fitzpatrick Justin Pierce Chloc Sevigny Rosario Dawson

Lou Barlow

Eric Edwards

Christopher Tellefsen

Trimark Pictures (Theatrical) Lionsgate (DVD)

July 28, 1995

91 minutes

United States

English

[1] $1.5 million

[1] $7,412,216

[2] Kidsis a 1995 drama film written by Harmony Korine and directed by Larry Clark. The film features Chloc Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Harold Hunter, and Rosario Dawson, all of them in their debut performances. The film is centered on a day in the life of a group of sexually active teenagers in New York City and their unrestrained behavior towards sex and substance abuse (alcohol and other drugs) during the era of HIV in the mid-1990s. Kidscreated considerable controversy upon its release in 1995, and caused much public debate over its artistic merit, [3] even receiving an NC-17 rating from the MPAA. It was later released without a rating.