Rosario Dawson
Biography
Rosario Isabel Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress. She made her feature film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids. Her subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Men in Black II (2002), The Rundown (2003), Rent (2005), Sin City (2005), Clerks II (2006), Death Proof (2007), Seven Pounds (2008), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Unstoppable (2010), Zookeeper (2011), Trance (2013), Top Five (2014), Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), and Clerks 3 (2022). Dawson has provided voice-over work for Disney/Marvel, Warner Bros./DC Comics, and ViacomCBS's Nickelodeon unit.
Dawson had several roles in film and television adaptations of comic books. These include Gail in Sin City (2005) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Claire Temple in five of the Marvel Netflix series (2015–2018), and providing the voices of Diana Prince/Wonder Woman in the DC Animated Movie Universe and Space Jam: A New Legacy and Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in The Lego Batman Movie. In 2020, she portrayed Ahsoka Tano in the second season of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett and stars in the Disney+ original series Ahsoka. In 2021, she had a recurring role in the Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and a main role in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick.
Acting (118 movies)
Sin City
2005
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014
Men in Black II
2002
25th Hour
2002
The Rundown
2003
Haunted Mansion
2023
Clerks II
2006
Rent
2005
Alexander
2004
Death Proof
2007
Down to You
2000
Explicit Ills
2008
Descent
2007
Sidewalks of New York
2001
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest
2002
Seven Pounds
2008
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
2009
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
2006
He Got Game
1998
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
2010
Eagle Eye
2008
Shattered Glass
2003
Chelsea Walls
2001
Vigilante
2023
The Invocation
2010
This Girl's Life
2004
Wonder Woman
2009
Killshot
2008
Zookeeper
2011
Trance
2013
Josie and the Pussycats
2001
Light It Up
1999
We're Not Even Supposed to Be Here Today: 3 Decades of Clerks
2022
Love in the Time of Money
2002
This Revolution
2005
Common Ground
2023
Five
2011
10 Years
2012
Miss Representation
2011
Girl Walks Into a Bar
2011
Sell/Buy/Date
2022
They Die by Dawn
2013
Hotel Noir
2012
Fire with Fire
2012
Side Streets
1998
SpongeBob's Truth or Square
2009
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'
2006
Cesar Chavez
2014
Gimme Shelter
2013
God Sleeps in Rwanda
2005
Trigger Happy
2001
Parts Per Billion
2014
Top Five
2014
The Captive
2014
Grindhouse
2007
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
2015
The Ever After
2015
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast
2014
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
2009
Ratchet & Clank
2016
Puerto Ricans in Paris
2015
Little Black Dress
2005
Henchmen
2018
The Clerks 3 Documentary
2022
The Lego Batman Movie
2017
Justice League vs. Teen Titans
2016
Unstoppable
2010
The People Speak
2009
Krystal
2018
Frank Miller: American Genius
2024
Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen
2024
Unforgettable
2017
Ash Wednesday
2002
King of the Jungle
2000
Raze
2013
The 4:30 Movie
2024
My First Horror Film
2024
Justice League Dark
2017
Back to the Well: 'Clerks II'
2006
The Death of Superman
2018
Someone Great
2019
Sorry to Bother You
2018
Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain
2018
This Changes Everything
2019
One Brick at a Time: Making the LEGO Batman Movie
2017
Reign of the Supermen
2019
Brave New Voices 2010
2010
Zombieland: Double Tap
2019
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
2019
The Need to Grow
2019
Boundless
2019
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines
2019
The Death and Return of Superman
2019
The Deported
2019
The Water Man
2020
Kids
1995
Guardians of Life
2020
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Descent | 2007 | Producer |
| Parts Per Billion | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| The Need to Grow | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| LA Woman Rising | 2019 | Executive Producer |
| This Is Not a War Story | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| Split at the Root | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Our Words Collide | 2022 | Executive Producer |
| Below the Belt | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| Common Ground | 2023 | Executive Producer |
| Steal This Story, Please! | 2025 | Executive Producer |