Celebrity Biographies
Rosario Dawson
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Africa. The origins of this beautiful actress, with large and expressive eyes, born in New York on May 9, 1979, can be traced to all these places. She has just premiered the film Seven Souls alongside Will Smith, an actor with whom she had already met. in Men In Black 2 .
It is said that director Larry Clark noticed Rosario Dawson when she was 15 years old and was walking down the street one day. Immediately he proposed to participate in the film Kids , and she did not think twice. Since then Ella Dawson has not stopped working. Later, her good work in Clark’s hard film helped her return to the cinema in another film with a social teen theme, Craig Bolotin ‘s Lost Generation .
This young promise, who was going to be a marine biologist, began to focus her professional goals on a very different field, acting, and for this she studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute . Soon came the sports drama A Bad Play , by Spike Lee , and the independent film Side Streets , which were other films where Dawson continued to demonstrate her good skills as an actress. She also made her first steps in the field of comedy in Josie and the Melodica , The Sidewalks of New York or Pluto Nash .
When Ethan Hawke tried out as a director in the drama Chelsea Walls , Rosario Dawson was called to be part of the cast, which also featured names like Vincent D’Onofrio or Natasha Richardson . In 2002, director Spike Lee cast her again for the film Last Night , where she played the girlfriend of convict Edward Norton . A year later she participated in Billy Ray ‘s film , The price of the truth , which was based on true events, and was starring Hayden Christensenin the role of Stephen Glass, a journalist who invented his attractive reports; He also did not want to miss out on a small role in the fun and Martian Men In Black 2 , by Barry Sonnenfeld .
With El tesoro del Amazonas , Rosario Dawson made her foray into the adventure genre playing the exotic Mariana, who put the protagonists of the film in check; and the fabulous epic Alexander the Great , by Oliver Stone , gave him the opportunity to share the screen with Colin Farrell , Angelina Jolie or Anthony Hopkins no less, giving life to the sensual Roxanne.
In addition, he had time to star in Chris Columbus ‘s seedy AIDS musical Rent ; breaking into a comedy again with Kevin Smith ‘s foul -mouthed Clerks 2 ; and return to drama in Memories of Queens , an autobiographical film by Dito Montiel , where she gave life to Laurie, the protagonist’s girl.
Sin City (City of Sin) in 2005 was a change of record for all the performers and for Dawson, and a good opportunity to work with directors like Robert Rodriguez , Frank Miller –author of the comic on which it was based– and Quentin Tarantino ; the latter re-signed her for Death Proof , a road movie with equal parts action and terror.
Interspersing more commercial projects with independent films, this beautiful New Yorker has shown that she knows how to walk firmly in any type of field, although her works tend to be directed towards thrillers and drama, genres that she masters quite well. In Seven Souls , Rosario Dawson plays Emily, a charming young woman with a bad heart who begins a relationship with Will Smith .
She has been the girlfriend of Joshua Jackson ( Dawson ‘s Grows), rapper Chris Judd, Jennifer Lopez ‘s ex-husband, and also actor Jason Lewis ( Sex and the City ). She claims to be a fan of the Star Trek saga , and even that she knows the Klingon language. Right now, Rosario Dawson has a John Madden action titled Killshot and Poor Things pending release , along with Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis . And of course, the second part of Sin City, which will hit the screens in 2010, will have her again. We will be looking forward to seeing her again in the cinema.