Rosario Dawson

Dawson in 2011, Featureflash / Shutterstock.com

Birth Name: Rosario Isabel Dawson

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.

Date of Birth: May 9, 1979

Ethnicity:
*mother – Puerto Rican, Cuban, including African and Taíno
*biological father – publicly unknown

Rosario Dawson is an American actress, voice actress, producer, singer, comic book writer, and political activist. Her roles include the films Kids, He Got Game, Josie and the Pussycats, Men in Black II, The Rundown, Shattered Glass, Alexander (2004), Frank Miller’s Sin City, and its sequel, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For; Rent (2005), Clerks II and 3, Grindhouse: Death Proof, Seven Pounds, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Unstoppable, Zookeeper, Trance (2013), Top Five, Zombieland: Double Tap, The Water Man, Haunted Mansion (2023), and, in voice role, The Lego Batman Movie and as Wonder Woman in several Justice League animated films; and on television’s Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders, Young Rock, Dopesick, and Ahsoka.

Rosario’s mother, Isabel Celeste, is a writer and singer, and is of Puerto Rican and African-Cuban descent. Her mother has Taíno roots. Rosario was raised by her mother and stepfather, Greg Dawson, who gave her his surname; Greg is said to be of Irish and Native American ancestry. Rosario’s biological father is named Patrick Harris. It does not appear to be publicly known what Patrick’s ancestry is.

She was raised partly in Garland, Texas.

Rosario has a daughter, who is adopted.

Rosario’s maternal grandmother was Isabel Quiñones (the daughter of Antonio Quiñones and Celestina Alvira y Torres). Isabel was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Antonio was the son of Ceferino Quiñones and Francisca Quiñones y Rivera. Celestina was the daughter of Eusebio Alvira y Rivera and Teresa Rexach y Torres.

Sources: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
https://books.google.ca

Genealogies of Rosario Dawson (focusing on her mother’s side) – http://www.wikitree.com
https://www.geni.com

Obituary of Rosario’s maternal grandmother, Isabel II (Quiñones) Stokilo – http://www.legacy.com

Rosario’s maternal great-grandfather, Antonio Quiñones, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

Rosario’s maternal great-grandmother, Celestina Alvira y Torres, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org

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90 Responses

  1. kathleen says:

    she’s awesome! beautiful latina!

  2. lovedawn says:

    @Savaje- You are not making movies in Hollywood though… LOL!

  3. Almondee latrice says:

    What’s this a competition she’s pretty and she’s a good actress.I thought this was a site about seeing what’s celebrities ethnicity not what’s their bone structure look like or their eyes, she’s was pretty enough to get usher attention in then movie light it up and off the screen of the movie I believe they have great chemistry together anwhen I look at her I see a light skinned black woman but u can tell she’s mixed and she can play both roles black and puerto rican or afro,cuban. So can’t we stop talking about people and she can’t help that she was bless to look like her parents that’s god work

  4. Blackmon says:

    In other words shes black ,white and Native American.She not all that I agree

  5. savaje says:

    She not all that. Who cares what she is she has a boyish shape and big eyes. I look way better than her next!

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