Rosario Dawson

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Biography

This stunning and resourceful actress has been primarily a film player thus far. Only recently has she been opening herself up more to doing television , Conservation International, Doctors Without Borders, National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy and Save the Children. In October 2008, she lent her voice to the RESPECT! Campaign, a movement aimed at preventing domestic violence.

  • Primary profession
  • Actress·producer·soundtrack
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Female
  • Birth date
  • 09 May 1979
  • Place of birth
  • New York City
  • Education
  • Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
  • Member of
  • Democratic Party

Movies

TV

Books

Trivia

Her uncle is a teacher known as Uncle Frank or Mr. Jump

Rosario was raised in Manhattan. Rosarios mother, Isabel Celeste, is a writer and professional vocalist, who has Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban ancestry. Rosarios biological fathers name is Patrick C. Harris. Rosarios mother married Greg Dawson, a caucasian construction worker who raised Rosario and gave her his surname.

Discovered sitting on her front porch in New York City and asked if she wanted to be in a movie. That movie was Kids .

Attended an alternative school in downtown Manhattan, where she harbored aspirations of one day becoming a marine biologist.

Has a younger brother: Clay Dawson.

(November 2005) Lives with Jason Lewis in Los Angeles, California.

Has her own production company called Trybe.

Her character from Rent , Mimi, is modeled after the character Mimi in Giacomo Puccini s "La Boheme".

Her uncle is comic book artist Gustavo Vazquez.

Co-created the comic book "Occult Crimes Taskforce".

(November 9, 2006) Broke up with Jason Lewis.

Originally had a small role as a nurse in the horror film The Devils Rejects . Her character was cut out of the theatrical release after director Rob Zombie decided to remove the character Dr. Satan. Her character was to be killed off within forty seconds of her entrance.

Is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Institute, along with such actors as Frank Miranda , Mickey Rourke , Scarlett Johansson , Dennis Hopper and Julia Roberts.

Is a huge fan of the Star Trek franchise, and even speaks broken Klingon language.

Her birthdate holds the record for the hottest May 9th ever in New York City at an approximate 97 degrees.

Attended and graduated from Garland High School in Garland, Texas.

She was homeless and lived in abandoned apartments virtually all of her adolescence.

Is a huge fan of the webcomic "Homestuck".

Never knew her biological father. Her adoptive father Greg Dawson met Rosarios mother when she was eight months pregnant with her.

Her mother was sixteen when she gave birth to her.

Although she is relatively tall at 5"7", she is quite short compared to the rest of her family. Her mother is six feet tall, her father is six-feet three inches tall and her brother is nearly a foot taller than her at six-feet five inches.

Has an adopted daughter (b. 2002 and adopted in 2014).

Quotes

If you wanted something better, you had to do it yourself.

It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever.

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court. .

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