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*About Rosario*

 

Rosario Isabel Dawson was born in Brooklyn on May 7, 1979. A few years after Rosario was born her family packed up and moved to Lower East Side of Manhattan where she, her mother, and her younger brother lived as squatters in an old abandon tenement building. Rosario had never pictured herself as an actress, even though she loved to sing, dance, and perform for an audience, she had always aspired to find a career in marine biology. But one day when Rosario was 15 she was sitting outside on her stoop watching a movie that was being filmed on her street, director Larry Clark approached her and asked her if she would like to be in his upcoming film, Kids. Rosario was apprehensive but agreed. The shooting took place over the course of the next 3 days and in the end Rosario walked away with 100 dollar bill in her pocket and a new found passion for acting. After the screening and premiere of Kids, Rosario and her family decided to move away from the craziness of New York and bought a house in Texas. A year after the move Rosario got a call from Larry Clark telling her he had several different directors demanding to get in contact with her and script upon script sitting on his desk for her to read. So Rosario made the decision to move back to New York to begin a career in acting. She attended Hunter College and then enrolled in the Lee Strasburg Film and Acting Institute as a finishing school. By the time she had finished college she already had 4 films under her belt and had launched herself full swing into her career as an actress.

 

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