

Career Īs a child, Dawson made a brief appearance on Sesame Street. The family later moved to Garland, Texas. Isabel and Greg moved into a reclaimed building on East 13th Street after being approved as members of an affordable housing plan. When Dawson was a year old, Isabel married Greg Dawson, a construction worker. Isabel was 17 years old when Rosario was born she never married Rosario's biological father, Patrick C.

Her mother, Isabel Celeste, is of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican ancestry. Rosario Dawson was born on May 9, 1979, in New York City.


In 2021, she has a recurring role in the Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and a main role in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick. In 2020, she portrayed Ahsoka Tano in the second season of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, and is set to star in the upcoming Disney+ original series Ahsoka. 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. Dawson has also provided voice-over work for Disney/ Marvel, Warner Bros./ DC Comics, and ViacomCBS's Nickelodeon unit.ĭawson is also known for having several roles in film and television adaptations of comic books. Her subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Men in Black II (2002), 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). She made her feature-film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids. Rosario Isabel Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress and film producer.
