Rosario Dawson

Date of Birth: May 09, 1979
Place of Birth: New York City, New York

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Rosario 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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boogiemanshan

Aye she gota comic book too!? lol ye shes da shit, loved her in kids ew yes magic lol

posted 132 days ago
boogiemanshan

Aye she gota comic book too!? lol, ye shes da shit loved her in kids lol ew yes u luvit ;P

posted 132 days ago
shaungordon2002

i love this actress! Especially from Sin City - Even though i think she is great in all roles she's plays

posted 324 days ago
yona71

Love Rosario! She's brilliant in 25th Hour and Death Proof.
Cheers

posted 406 days ago
biddingwriter09

I think this lady is gorgeous, smart, funny and deserves every success. DP is my favourite movie of hers....

posted 443 days ago
amylynncox

Hey Rosario !
I've been a huge fan of yours ever since you & Usher Raymond did a movie together, my fave & still is my fave is you singing in musical Rent
I can't wait for you sing more just love to hear you sing.

posted 512 days ago
kwikirizarogers

Hello Rosario, i have love your movies for they are so interesting .Do mind of becoming my friend .good day cry on with the interesting movies as you have always done .Bye for now.

posted 530 days ago
FabiSebien

I've only seen her in sin city, and she looked wicked cool.

posted 589 days ago
ralston01subs

smokin', absolutely beautiful. I think that you are one of the most beautiful and sexy women of the world.

posted 597 days ago
youngandhopeless113

awesome actress!!!!!

posted 633 days ago

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Rosario Dawson Movies

Sin City 2 (Unrated, 2011)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Unrated, 2010)
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (R, 2009)
Explicit Ills (R, 2009)
Wonder Woman (Unrated, 2009)
Seven Pounds (PG-13, 2008)
Killshot (R, 2008)
Eagle Eye (PG-13, 2008)
Descent (R, 2007)
Grindhouse (Grind House) (R, 2007)

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