Rosario Isabel Dawson is an actress and producer from the United States.
In the 1995 independent drama Kids, she made her feature film debut.
Dawson earned the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture for her performance in Rent, and she was nominated for the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy for her performance in Top Five.
Who are Rosario Dawson’s parents?
Dawson was born in New York City on May 9, 1979.
Isabel Celeste, her mother, is of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican descent.
Isabel was 18 years old when Rosario was born, and she never married Patrick C. Harris, Rosario’s biological father, who is of Irish and Native American ancestry.
Rosario’s mother married Greg Dawson, a construction worker, when she was a year old.
After being authorized as members of an affordable housing plan, Isabel and Greg rented their apartment and moved their family into 544 East 13th Street, a reclaimed building.
Rosario and her brother Clay grew up in Texas at the same time.
