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Infobox person| name = Rosario Dawson| image = 416px cropped Rosario Dawson.jpg| image_size =| caption = Dawson in 2009| birth_date = Birth date and age|1979|5|9| birth_name = Rosario Isabel Harris| birth_place = New York City , New York , United States|U.S. | death_date =| other_names =| years_active = 1995–present| occupation = Actress, singer, writer| website = Official website| http://www.rosario-dawson.netRosario Isabel Dawson (born Rosario Isabel Harris May 9, 1979) is an United States|American actress , singer , and writer. She has appeared in films such as Kids (film)|Kids , Men in Black II , 25th Hour , Sin City (film)|Sin City , Clerks II , Rent (film)|Rent , Death Proof , The Rundown , Eagle Eye , Alexander (film)|Alexander , Seven Pounds , Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Unstoppable (2010 film)|Unstoppable .
Early life
Dawson was born in New York City to Isabel Celeste, a writer and singer of Puerto Rican people|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 Rosario was a year old.cite web||title=Isabel Celeste|publisher=Sulafilms.com|year=2010 |url= http://surlafilms.com/thecity/characters/isabel/|accessdate=2010-11-08Cite news|last=Mills|first=Nancy|coauthors=|title=Rosario Dawson grabs life by the horns|pages=|publisher=The Daily Mail|date=2007-09-23|url= http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-481825/Rosario-Dawson-grabs-life-horns.html|accessdate=2010-11-08|location=London When Isabel was eighteen, she married Greg Dawson, a construction worker, who "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 Squatting|squat on the Lower East Side of Manhattan , where she and her husband 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 this when explaining how she learned "If you wanted something better, you had to do it yourself."cite web |url= http://magazines.ivillage.com/marieclaire/print/0,,679254,00.html |title=Rosario Dawson: From Tenement to Tinseltown |accessdate=2007-03-20 |last=Hensley |first=Dennis |publisher= Marie Claire Rosario Dawson. "Using Fame and Fortune to Help Others" Newsweek ; October 13, 2008; Page 58.
Career
As a child, Dawson made a brief appearance on Sesame 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 film Kids (film)|Kids . She went on to star in varied roles, ranging from independent film s to big budget Blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbusters including Rent (film)|Rent , He Got Game , and Men in Black II .cite web|last=Adams |first=Jim |url= http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/archive/28164409.html |title=New York community fosters show biz careers & #124; Indian Country Today & #124; Archive |publisher=Indian Country Today |date=2008-09-10 |accessdate=2010-05-18cite news |url= http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1213683,00.html |title=Spotlight on Rosario Dawson |accessdate=2007-04-10 |publisher= Entertainment Weekly |first=Neil |last=Drumming |date=2006-07-14cite news|url= http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/08/1073437410018.html|title=Between The Rock and a hard place|author=Helen Barlow | location=Melbourne|work=The Age|date=2004-01-09cite web |url= http://movies.go.com/rosario-dawson/b830777|title=Rosario Dawson: Actress Profile|accessdate=2007-03-20 |last=Hensley |first=Dennis |publisher= Movies.go.com cite web |url= http://www.newyorkcool.com/archives/2005/November/about_5.htm |title= Rent Party |accessdate=2007-04-10
In 1999, Dawson teamed up with Prince (musician)|Prince for the re-release of his 1980s hit " 1999 (song)|1999 ."cite web |url= http://www.amazon.com/1999-New-Master-Prince-Revolution/dp/B00000I3XH |title=1999: The New Master EP |accessdate=2007-03-30 |publisher= Amazon.com |quote=2. Rosario 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 the new millennium .cite web |url= http://www.dtt-lyrics.com/albums/newmaster.html#rosario |title=Prince & The Revolution – The New Master Lyrics |accessdate=2007-03-30 The same year, she appeared in The Chemical Brothers ' video for the song "Out of Control" from the album Surrender (The Chemical Brothers album)|Surrender .cite web |url= http://www.slickmedia.com/super/bn990830.htm |title=SlickMedia.com - August 1999 |accessdate=2007-04-05 |quote=Starring Rosario Dawson of "Kids" and "He Got Game" as a cola-brandishing rebel, the new video is said to deal with a revolution in a fictional Latin American banana republic. She is also featured on the track "She Lives In My Lap" from the second disc of the OutKast album Speakerboxxx/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 (film)|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 film Alexander (film)|Alexander , 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 Park " revival of Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical)|Two Gentlemen of Verona .Brantley, Ben. http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html? res=9D03E1D61F3EF93AA1575BC0A9639C8B63& fta=y "Shakespeare in the Park Review; Enter 'Two Gentlemen' For a Sexy Sip of Sangría", The New York Times , August 29, 2005 It was her first appearance on stage. “That park is so beautiful,” she said of New York's Central Park .cite news | title = In Step With: Rosario Dawson | publisher = Parade Magazine | date = November 6, 2005 | url = http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2005/edition_11-06-2005/in_step_with_0
In the film adaptation of the popular musical Rent (film)|Rent in 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 novel Sin City (film)|Sin City , co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller (comics)|Frank Miller , portraying Gail, a prostitute-dominatrix. Also in that year, she 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.
She starred as Becky in 2006's Clerks II , and mentioned in Back 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 fan, co-created the comic book miniseries Occult Crimes Taskforce .cite web |url= http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi? id=6422 |title=SPEAKEASY TEAMS UP WITH ACTRESS ROSARIO DAWSON FOR NEW COMIC |accessdate=2007-03-20 She was at the 2007 Comic-Con to promote the comic. She co-starred with former Rent alum Tracie Thoms in the Quentin Tarantino throwback movie Death Proof in 2007, part of the Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double feature Grind House . She teamed up with friend Talia Lugacy, whom she met at the Lee Strasberg Academy, to produce and star in Descent (film)|Descent . cite web|url= http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php? id=23157|title=Rosario Dawson & Talia Lugacy on Descent|publisher=ComingSoon On July 7, 2007, Dawson presented at the Live Earth concert, New York City|American leg of Live Earth .
In 2008, Dawson starred with Will Smith in Seven Pounds and in the Steven Spielberg produced Eagle Eye . Beginning in August, she starred in Gemini Division , an online TV series. In the computer animated series Afterworld (Sci-Fi Show)|Afterworld she voiced the character Officer Delondre Baines.cite web | title = Welcome to GD Files | publisher = Gemini Division Files.com | url = http://www.geminidivisionfiles.com/? tag=afterworld | date = 2008-03-18 | accessdate = 2009-03-25 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 (film)|Wonder Woman .cite web|url= http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0806/26/index.htm |title=Comics Continuum cast list |publisher=Comicscontinuum.com |date=2008-06-26 |accessdate=2011-07-30
In 2009, Dawson performed in The People Speak (film)|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 . http://www.thepeoplespeak.com/pages/credits/ The People Speak - Creditsdead link|date=July 2011
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 movies Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief , as Persephone , and Unstoppable (2010 film)|Unstoppable , as railway yardmaster Connie.
Personal life
Dawson dated former Sex and the City star Jason Lewis (actor)|Jason Lewis for two years. They lived together in Los Angeles until they separated in November 2006.cite web |url= http://www.usmagazine.com/rosario_dawson_and_jason_lewis_split |title=Rosario Dawson and Jason Lewis Split |accessdate=2007-03-20 |publisher= Us Weekly |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070212171138/ http://usmagazine.com/rosario_dawson_and_jason_lewis_split |archivedate = February 12, 2007.
Dawson is involved with the Lower East Side Girls Club http://www.girlsclub.org/special/index.html Girls Clubdead link|date=May 2010 http://video.google.com/videoplay? docid=-3449237673795137517& q=rosario+dawson& total=865& start=0& num=10& so=0& type=search& plindex=1 Rosario Dawson on Jimmy Kimmel Live 4-9-07 part1dead link|date=July 2011 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 Frank Jump),cite web|url= http://stayclose.org/campaign/celebrity.asp? id=9 |title=Pflag |publisher=Stay Close |date= |accessdate=2011-07-30 International Rescue Committee , and http://www.votolatino.org Voto Latino,cite web|url= http://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/500-rosario-dawson |title=Rosario Dawson's Charity Work |publisher=Looktothestars.org |date= |accessdate=2011-07-30cite web|url= http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm? fuseaction=vids.individual& videoid=2015047602 |title=Vidéos MySpaceTV : Rosario Dawson par Global Cool |publisher=Vids.myspace.com |date= |accessdate=2011-07-30 and she participated in the Vagina Monologues . She is on the V-Day Board. She attended both the Democratic National Convention as well as the Republican National Convention in 2008. In October 2008, Dawson became a spokeswoman for TripAdvisor .com’s philanthropy program, More Than Footprints, http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/081031/0448209.html Yahoo!dead link|date=May 2010cite web|author=Rosario Dawson Online |url= http://www.rosario-dawson.net/ |title=Rosario Dawson Online & #124; The Official Site Of Rosario Dawson |publisher=Rosario-dawson.net |date=2007-04-26 |accessdate=2010-05-18 involving 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& #33; Campaign,cite web|author=Rosario Dawson Online |url= http://rosario-dawson.net/2008/10/24/rosario-dawson-joins-the-respect-campaign/ |title=Rosario Dawson joins the RESPECT& #33; Campaign |publisher=Rosario-dawson.net |date=2007-04-26 |accessdate=2010-05-18 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 winning cuz I love them both but yes I'm a Gunner first & foremost sooooo #gooooArsenal." http://twitter.com/#!/rosariodawson
:*2006, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Rent) Nominated
American Black Film Festival
:*2004, Rising Star Award Won
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
:*2006, Gamer's Choice: Breakthrough Performance Won
Streamy Awards
:*2009, Best Female Actor in a Dramatic Web Series Won
Teen Choice Awards
:*2001, Film - Choice Breakout Performance (Josie and the Pussycats) Nominated :*2010, Choice Movie Actress: Fantasy (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief) Nominated cite web|url= http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2010/06/14/first-wave-of-teen-choice-2010-nominees-announced/20100614fox01/|title=First Wave of "Teen Choice 2010" Nominees Announced|date=June 14, 2010|work=The Futon Critic|accessdate=June 15, 2010
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