By Lucy Santiago
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Rosario Isabel Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress. She made her feature-film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids. Her subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Men in Black II (2002), The Rundown (2003), 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). Dawson has provided voice-over work for Disney/Marvel, Warner Bros./DC Comics, and ViacomCBS‘s Nickelodeon unit.
Dawson had several roles in film and television adaptations of comic books. 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 The Book of Boba Fett, and stars in Disney+ original series Ahsoka. In 2021, she had a recurring role in the Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and a main role in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- John Brown (abolitionist) –
- J. M. Barrie (author) –
- Henry J. Kaiser (industrialist) –
- Hank Snow (singer) –
- Mike Wallace (journalist) –
- Albert Finney (actor) –
- Candice Bergen (actress) –
- Billy Joel (musician) –
- Rosario Dawson (actress) –
Died
- Nelson Algren (writer) –
- Alice Faye (actress) –
- Alan King (comedian) –
- Lena Horne (actress & singer) –
Events
- Thomas Blood stole the Crown Jewels–
- First American political cartoon debuted in The Pennsylvania Gazette–
- William F. Ford issued patent for stethoscope–
- Hindenburg completed its first flight to the United States–
- Sam and Friends debuted on television–
- Sale of birth control pills approved by FDA–
- 40-pound 4-ounce brown trout caught in Little Red River, Arkansas–
Weather
- Boston, Massachusetts, got its first May snow in 107 years–
- An EF1 tornado touched down in Washington, Vermont–
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