Rosario Dawson

About Rosario Dawson

Rosario Dawson is an American actress, film producer and singer, having appeared in films such as Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Men in Black II (2002), 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) and Zombieland: Double Tap (2019).

She has also provided voice-over work for Disney/Marvel, Warner Bros./DC Comics and ViacomCBS's Nickelodeon unit.

For her role in Rent, Dawson won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture; for her role in Top Five, she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy.

Dawson is also known for having several roles in comic-book adaptations.

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 is set to star in the upcoming Disney+ original series Ahsoka.

In 2021, she has a recurring role in the Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick.

Dawson is of African, Cuban, Irish, Native American, Puerto Rican and Taíno decent.