Rosario also appeared as a prostitute in the adaptation of the graphic novel Sin City (2005). She lucked into and got to show off her singing chops in the film adaptation of the hit New York musical Rent (2005), when Daphne Rubin-Vega, the original Mimi, became pregnant and was unable to reprise her exotic dancer role. On stage, she co-starred as Julia in a revival of "Two Gentlemen of Verona" at the Public Theater's "Shakespeare in the Park" and appeared in "The Vagina Monologues". She is also featured on the Outkast track, "She Lives in My Lap". She hooked up with Prince for the re-release of his 1980s hit "1999" and appeared in The Chemical Brothers' video for the song "Out of Control" from the album "Surrender". Macedonian warrior, Alejandro Magno (2004) (as in ".the Great"), which featured a notoriously violent-tinged nude/sex scene.Įxpanding her horizons beyond film, she has always expressed interest in singing. For Oliver Stone, she portrayed the duped bride of Colin Farrell's famed B.C. Reflecting New York's tougher, tawdrier side as assorted streetwalkers, homeless mothers, drug addicts, etc., her film highlights have included Light It Up (1999), Edward Burns' Sidewalks of New York (2001), Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002) and Shattered Glass (2003).
Since then, she has moved into main-stream hits (and misses) and has surprised viewers with her earthy, provocative, uninhibited approach to her roles.
It took time for Rosario's film career to kick in after that, but by the late 1990s, she had nabbed several independent films. One of them, Harmony Korine, was an aspiring screenwriter who thought the inexperienced sixteen-year-old was ideal for the controversial cult film Kids (1995), in which she would portray a sexually active adolescent. As the story goes, she was "discovered" as an adolescent on her front porch step by two photographers. Her career actually started as a child when she made a minor showing on the children's show, Sesame Street (1969). Rosario and her younger brother, Clay Dawson, had it hard while growing up and was cared for by family members, most of whom were poverty-stricken and some of whom were HIV-positive. Born in New York City on May 9, 1979, the daughter of Isabel Celeste (Puerto Rican/Afro-Cuban), a singer, and Greg Dawson (North American/Irish), a construction laborer, her parents, who married when both were teenagers, eventually divorced. Dawson's beauty may owe to her diverse lineage, which includes Afro-Cuban, Puerto Rican, North American and Irish, yet it is her gritty, powerhouse talent that stands out even more in edgy, urban filming that dates back to 1995 when she was only sixteen.Ī rags-to-riches article entitled "Rosario Dawson: From Tenement to Tinseltown" probably says it all.
ROSARIO DAWSON SIN CITY SERIES
Only recently has she been opening herself up more to doing television (the series Gemini Division (2008), which she executive-produced), and animated voice-overs. This stunning and resourceful actress has been primarily a film player thus far. Rosario Dawson is an American actress who plays Gail in Sin City (film) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
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