Rosario Dawson

  • Name: Rosario Dawson
  • Date of Birth: May 09, 1979
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Mini-bio: New York-born and bred actress Rosario Dawson made her screen debut in Larry Clark's controversial Kids (1995). Literally picked off the street to play Ruby, one of the film's titular teens, Dawson --... read more who is of Puerto Rican, Cuban, Black, Irish, and Native American heritage -- had never acted before being cast in the film. Following Kids, she next appeared in Spike Lee's He Got Game (1998) and that same year starred in Side Streets, a series of vignettes about life in New York's five boroughs. Faithful to her New York roots through and through, Dawson has continued to star in films set in her hometown, including Light It Up (1999), a drama that cast the actress as an honors student caught up in a hostage situation, and Down to You (2000), a romantic comedy in which she played a freewheeling stoner. After jamming with Josie and the Pussycats (2001) and landing on the Sidewalks of New York as a teacher dealing with a failed marriage. In 2002 Dawson had the distinction of appearing in two different science-fiction comedies that met dissimilar fates at the box office. She stepped into the female leading Men in Black 2 after Linda Fiorentino decided to opt out of the successful sequel, but Dawson also appeared alongside Eddie Murphy in the infamous bomb The Adventures of Pluto Nash. She continued to move between big budget films like The Rundown with more independently minded efforts like Shattered Glass. In 2004 Dawson took on the part of the feisty woman who marries Alexander. She showcased her versatility in 2005 by appearing in two very different films. She took on the part of HIV positive drug addict Mimi Marquez in the big-screen adaptation of Rent, and played a hardened prostitute in Robert Rodriguez' Sin City. She also became involved in a legal dispute concerning her maintaining a rent-free dwelling in New York City. She continued working for interesting directors in 2006 playing in Killshot for John Madden, and being the most famous person cast in a major role, as the love interest for the directionless Dante Hicks, in Kevin Smith's Clerks 2. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
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Rosario DawsonRosario Dawson mini-bio: New York born and bred beauty Rosario Dawson landed her first film role in Larry Clark's controversial "Kids" (1995) after being discovered by the director while hanging out near her East Village tenement home. The unseasoned performer played Ruby in the film, a free-speaking sexually promiscuous teen who gets tested for HIV after engaging in extensive risky behavior. "Kids" was both praised and derided for its depiction of American urban youth, and the controversy resulted in the young actress winning a much larger audience for her acting bow than was expected. Her turn was appropriately chilling, although it was the dark-haired, wide-eyed fifteen-year-old's uncommonly striking and unsettlingly attractive appearance that would separate her from the rest of the cast.
Dawson made the most of her opportunity in "Kids" and pursued an acting career. Her next major role was that of Lala in Spike Lee's "He Got Game" (1998). Here she played a bewitching but opportunistic girlfriend to uncommonly talented basketball player Jesus (Ray Allen), eager to get her share of his potential fame and wealth. Dawson could also be seen that year in the episodic comedy "Side Streets", playing a Puerto Rican Bronx native with relationship problems in this New York City-set feature looking at people in each of the city's five boroughs. In 1999, Dawson teamed up with Prince for his timely re-release of his 1980s hit "1999". This remixed version featured the actress in an introductory voiceover, offering commentary on the state of the world in the titular year. Later in 1999, she was featured in the New York City high school hostage drama "Light It Up", playing a brainy, cool-headed student encouraging moderation in the explosive situation. 2000 saw her with a supporting role as flaky party girl Lana in the disappointing romantic comedy "Down to You".
Dawson's career was certainly on the ascent. She landed a co-starring role in the Edward Burns romantic comedy "Sidewalks of New York" (2000) and was also cast as Valerie in the live-action adaptation of "Josie and the Pussycats" (2001). In 2002, Dawson was involved in saving the world in the summer sequel hit "Men In Black II". She replaced Halle Berry as the female lead of the long-delayed futuristic comedy "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" opposite Eddie Murphy and ended the year co-starring in Spike Lee's crime drama "The 25th Hour." Her most commercial role to date came when she was cast alongside The Rock and Seann William Scott in the crowd-pleasing action-comedy-buddy flick "The Rundown" (2003), serving as the love interest for the stars' combative characters, and the actress's fiery depiction of Alexander the Great's hellcat wife Roxanne (and her erotic if violently charged nude scenes) were among the best elements of Oliver Stone's bloated would-be epic "Alexander" (2004).

As the neice of a professional cartoonist, Dawson was naturally drawn to appear in director Robert Rodriguez and writer-artist Frank Miller's visually arresting adaptation of Miller's crime noir comic book series "Sin City" (2005), playing the dominatrix prostitute/"warrior woman" Gail in "The Big Fat Kill" sequence, gleefully mowing down the enemies of Old Town's hookers with automatic weapons while still looking fabulous in lingerie. She then had an arresting, carnally charged turn as the alluring but heroin-addicted dancer Mimi Marquez in the 2005 big screen adaptation of the smash Broadway musical "Rent," revealing a terrific aptitude for song and dance. Although the film's cast was populated by many of the stage play's original players, Dawson stole scenes from them all with her canny ability to attract on camera.

She also appeared in the adaptation of the graphic novel Sin City, where she played a prostitute-dominatrix. In 2005, Dawson appeared in a graphically violent scene in the Rob Zombie film The Devil's Rejects. Though the scene was cut from the final film, it is available in the deleted scenes on the DVD release. In 2006's Clerks II, Dawson starred as Becky, the crush-turned-wife of Dante Hicks. As she mentioned in the making of documentary, Back to the Well, the donkey show sequence was what made her decide to appear in the movie. In May of the same year, Dawson, an avid comic bookOccult Crimes Taskforce. She was at the 2007 Comic-Con to promote her new comic book miniseries. fan, co-created the comic book miniseries In 2007, Dawson co-starred with former Rent alum Tracie Thoms in the Quentin Tarantino throwback movie Death Proof (in which her bare feet are visible and she also gets her toes sucked - something she says she didn't mind doing part of the Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double feature Grind House. In 2007, Dawson teamed up with friend Talia Lugacy, whom she met at the Lee Strasberg Academy, to produce and star in Descent. On July 7, 2007, Dawson presented at the American leg of Live Earth.In 2008, Dawson starred with Will Smith in Seven Pounds.Later that year on September 26, Dawson starred in Eagle Eye.It was announced that Dawson will play Artemis in the upcoming animated Wonder Woman film.

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