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Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson at the 2006 Comic-Con
Years active1995 - current
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)

Rosario Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress and occasional singer best known for her roles in films such as Sin City, Rent and Clerks II.

Biography

Early life

Dawson was born in New York City to Isabelle[1] -- a Bronx-born professional vocalist -- and Greg Dawson -- a construction worker;[2] The two are now divorced.[3] Her father is of Native American and Irish ancestry and her mother is of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban ancestry.[2][3]

Dawson grew up on Manhattan's Lower East Side[2] and has a brother named Clay. She and her family squatted in an abandoned building during most of her childhood.[3] While attending school, she had aspirations of 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 film 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 are the long-shelved The Adventures of Pluto Nash (which was nominated for six Golden Raspberry Awards[5]) and the live-action film adaptation of 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] Her films for that year included the adaptation of the popular musical Rent, where she played the exotic dancer, Mimi Marquez, and the adaptation of the graphic novel Sin City, where she played the prostitute-dominatrix, Gail. She will appear in Sin City's sequel in 2008.

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 two years, residing together in Los Angeles until they separated in November 2006.[13] She is currently reported to be dating another Sex and the City actor, Andrea Boccaletti.[14]

For her 27th birthday party, she asked hard rock band 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

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Footnotes

  1. ^ "Rent Party". Retrieved 2007-04-10.
  2. ^ a b c "Spotlight on Rosario Dawson". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2007-04-10. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ a b c Hensley, Dennis. "Rosario Dawson: From Tenement to Tinseltown". Marie Claire. Retrieved 2007-03-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ "Interview with Hayden Christensen". Retrieved 2007-03-30.
  5. ^ "Adventures of Pluto Nash awards page". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
  6. ^ "Mutant Reviewers from Hell Josie & the Pussycats review". Retrieved 2007-03-20.
  7. ^ "1999: The New Master EP". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2007-03-30. 2. Rosario 1999
  8. ^ "Prince & The Revolution - The New Master Lyrics". Retrieved 2007-03-30.
  9. ^ "SlickMedia.com - August 1999". Retrieved 2007-04-05. 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.
  10. ^ "She Lives In My Lap lyrics". azlyrics.com. Retrieved 2007-03-30.
  11. ^ "Dawson & Lewis to Star in The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Central Park". Broadway.com. Retrieved 2007-03-30.
  12. ^ "SPEAKEASY TEAMS UP WITH ACTRESS ROSARIO DAWSON FOR NEW COMIC". Retrieved 2007-03-20.
  13. ^ "Rosario Dawson and Jason Lewis Split". Us Weekly. Retrieved 2007-03-20. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  14. ^ "Hot Couple of the Minute: Rosario and Andrea". Retrieved 2007-03-20.
  15. ^ "Axl Rose fight with Tommy Hilfiger". Retrieved 2007-04-03.
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