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Rosario Dawson

Rosario Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress and singer. She has appeared in films such as Men in Black II, Sin City, and was a voice over actor in Wonder Woman the animated feature.

Dawson was born in New York City by 15-year-old parents of Puerto Rican, Afro-Cuban, Native American (Apache-Seminole) and Irish descent. Dawson has one younger brother, Clay (b. 1983). She grew up in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Rosario made a brief appearance on Sesame Street but was later "discovered" on her front porch step by photographer and given a part in the controversial 1995 film Kids. She went on to star in varied roles, ranging from independent films to big-budget blockbusters.

In the 2004 Oliver Stone film Alexander, she played the bride of Alexander the Great, which featured her in a fully nude sex scene. In the film adaptation of the popular musical Rent in 2005, she played the exotic dancer Mimi Marquez. She also appeared in the adaptation of the graphic novel Sin City, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller where she played Gail, a prostitute-dominatrix. Also in that year, she appeared in a graphically violent scene in the Rob Zombie film The Devil's Rejects. Though the scene was cut from the final film, it is available in the deleted scenes on the DVD release.

Dawson, an avid comic book fan, co-created the comic book miniseries Occult Crimes Taskforce. She was at the 2007 Comic-Con to promote the comic. She co-starred in the Quentin Tarantino throwback movie Death Proof in 2007, part of the Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double feature Grind House. In 2008, Dawson starred with Will Smith in Seven Pounds and in the Steven Spielberg produced Eagle Eye. Later in the year, she voiced the character of Artemis in the animated Wonder Woman film. In 2010, she starred in the movie Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Persephone.

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