Rosario Dawson
Biography of Rosario Dawson
Rosario Isabel Dawson was born on May 9, 1979 in New York City. She is an American actress.
Dawson's mother is of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban descent and her father is of Irish descent. She was discovered by photographer and director Larry Clark on the streets of New York in 1995 and landed a role in his film Kids. Dawson then trained as an actress at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. In 2005, she received a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress (Comedy/Musical) for her performance as Mimi in the film Rent.
In 2006, six films starring Dawson were released. Among other things, she starred alongside Robert Downey Jr. in Dito Montiel's Kids - In the Streets of New York. She also starred in Kevin Smiths' Clerks II. In 2006, she co-wrote the graphic novel O.C.T.: Occult Crimes Taskforce with co-author David Atchison. O.C.T. was filmed in 2013, starring Dawson, while also serving as executive producer.
She starred as Nurse Claire Temple on the Marvel Netflix series Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and The Defenders from 2015 to 2018, being the only cast member to appear in all five series. In the Star Wars live-action series The Mandalorian she played the Jedi Ahsoka Tano for the first time in 2020 and is to continue the role in the upcoming series Ahsoka.
Filmography
1995 Kids
1997 Girls' Night Out
1998 He Got Game
1998 Side Streets
1999 Light It Up
2000 Down to You
2000 King of the Jungle
2001 Josie and the Pussycats
2001 Sidewalks of New York
2001 Trigger Happy
2001 Chelsea Walls
2002 Ash Wednesday
2002 The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
2002 Men in Black II
2002 The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002 Love in the Time of Money
2002 25th Hour
2003 V-Day: Until the Violence Stops
2003 This Girl's Life
2003 Shattered Glass
2003 The Rundown
2004 Alexander
2005 This Revolution
2005 Sin City
2005 Little Black Dress
2005 Rent
2006 Clerks II
2006 A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
2007 Death Proof (Grindhouse)
2007 Descent
2008 Explicit Ills
2008 Eagle Eye
2008 Killshot
2008 Seven Pounds
2009 Wonder Woman
2009 The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
2009 The People Speak
2010 Awake
2010 Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2010 Unstoppable
2011 Miss Representation
2011 Girl Walks into a Bar
2011 Zookeeper
2011 10 Years
2012 Fire with Fire
2012 Hotel Noir
2013 Trance
2013 Gimme Shelter
2013 César Chávez
2013 Parts per Billion
2013 Raze
2014 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014 The Ever After
2014 The Captive
2014 Top Five
2015 Tinker Bell and the Legend of the Never
2015 Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
2015 Puerto Ricans in Paris
2016 Justice League vs. Teen Titans
2016 Ratchet & Clank
2017 Justice League Dark
2017 The Lego Batman Movie
2017 Unforgettable
2017 Krystal
2018 The Death of Superman
2018 The Need to Grow
2018 Sorry to Bother You
2018 Henchmen
2019 Reign of the Supermen
2019 Someone Great
2019 Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
2019 Zombieland: Double Tap
2019 Wonder Woman: Bloodlines
2019 The Deported
2020 Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
2020 The Water Man
2021 Space Jam: A New Legacy
Television
2003 Punk'd
2007 Robot Chicken
2008 Gemini Division
2009 Saturday Night Live
2009 Sponge
2011 Five
2015 Daredevil
2015 Jessica Jones
2016 Luke Cage
2017 Iron Fist
2017 The Defenders
2017 Waves for Water
2018 Jane the Virgin
2018 Elena of Avalor
2019 Weird City
2020 Briarpatch
2020 Make It Work!
2020 The Mandalorian
2020 It's Pony
2021 Calls
2021 Young Rock
2021 Eden Dopesick
2021 AEW Dynamite
2021 Go-Big Show
2022 The Book of Boba Fett
2022 DMZ