Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson
The Defenders, Jessica Jones, Rent
Rosario Dawson is an actress, producer, singer, comic book writer, and political activist. She made her film debut in the 1995 teen drama KIDS. Her subsequent film roles include HE GOT GAME, MEN IN BLACK II, 25TH HOUR, RENT, SIN CITY, DEATH PROOF, SEVEN POUNDS, PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF, UNSTOPPABLE, and TOP FIVE.
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 portrays Claire Temple/Night Nurse in five of the Marvel/Netflix shows, including DAREDEVIL, JESSICA JONES, LUKE CAGE, IRON FIST, and THE DEFENDERS.
Off-camera, Dawson is highly active in political, social and environmental causes and has been involved with such organizations/charities/campaigns as the Lower East Side Girls Club, Global Cool, the O.N.E. Campaign, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, Control Arms, International Rescue Committee, Voto Latino (which she founded), Conservation International, Doctors Without Borders, National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy and Save the Children. In October 2008, she lent her voice to the RESPECT! Campaign, a movement aimed at preventing domestic violence.
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