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Rosario Dawson
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Rosario Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress and singer, known for her roles in the movies Kids, Sin City, Rent, and 25th Hour.
Contents
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 Career
- 1.3 Personal life
- 2 Selected filmography
- 3 Footnotes
- 4 External links
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Biography
Early life
Dawson was born in New York City to Isabelle,[1] a Bronx-born professional vocalist, and Greg Dawson, a construction worker. She has a brother, Clay. Her father is of Native American and Irish descent and her mother is of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban ancestry.[2] The two are now divorced.[3] She grew up with a close friend of her mothers, a teacher known as "Uncle Frank" and "Mr. Jump", who had HIV.[3]
While attending school she harbored aspirations of some day becoming a
marine biologist.
Career
Dawson's acting career began when filmmaker Larry Clark saw her on a Manhattan stoop and asked her to be in a movie he was making.[4] The movie, Kids, became a critical success and Dawson's performance was commended, and as a result she decided to pursue career in acting; attending the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Dawson has worked steadily since her debut, with a mixed amount of commercial and critical success. As of 2006, she has worked with such notable directors as Oliver Stone, Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, Chris Columbus and Spike Lee, and costarred with the likes of Will Smith, Edward Norton, Taye Diggs, and Colin Farrell.
Dawson's films have varied; ranging from independent films, to highly successful big budget blockbusters, and large scale box office bombs. Among her successes are the Spike Lee-directed He Got Game, opposite Denzel Washington and professional basketball player Ray Allen, and Men in Black II, which saw her sharing the screen with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, and among her failures she counts the long-shelved The Adventures of Pluto Nash (which was nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards[5]) and Josie and the Pussycats, though the latter did go on to find a cult audience once it was released on home video.[6]
In 1999, Dawson teamed up with Prince for the timely re-release of his 1980s hit "1999".[7] The new remixed version featured the actress in an introductory voice over, offering commentary on the state of the world in the titular year.[8] The same year she could be seen in The Chemical Brothers video for the song "Out of Control" from the album Surrender.[9] She is also featured on the track "She Lives In My Lap" from the second disc of the OutKast album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, during which she speaks the intro and a brief interlude towards the end.[10]
In 2005, Dawson appeared on stage as Julia in the Public Theatre revival of
Galt MacDermot's 1971 musical
The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the
Delacorte Theater in Central Park, New York (August-September 2005).
[11] After that she portrayed the
HIV-positive
heroin-addicted
exotic dancer Mimi Marquez in the film adaptation of
Rent in her first role in a
musical. Later in the same year Dawson had a role in the
comic book adaptation,
Sin City, and after the movie became a success and a
sequel was announced she signed on to reprise her role.
In 2006's Clerks II, Dawson starred as Becky, the crush-turned-wife of Dante (Brian O'Halloran). 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 book fan, co-created the comic book miniseries Occult Crimes Taskforce.[12]
Personal life
Dawson dated former Sex and the City star Jason Lewis for 2 years, residing together in Los Angeles until they separated in November 2006.[13] It has been reported she is currently dating another Sex and the City actor, Fragos.[14]
For her twenty seventh-birthday party, she asked Guns N' Roses to perform. At the event Axl Rose and Tommy Hilfiger got into a physical altercation which garnered some press attention.[15]
Selected filmography
Upcoming:
Footnotes
