Rosario
Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American
actress and singer.
Dawson's films have varied; ranging from independent films, to
highly successful big budget blockbusters, and large scale box
office bombs.
Among her successes are He Got Game, opposite professional basketball
player Ray Allen, and Men in Black II, which saw her sharing the screen
with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones; among her failures are The Adventures
of Pluto Nash
and the live-action film adaptation of Josie and the Pussycats.
In 1999, Rosario Dawson teamed
up with Prince for the re-release of his 1980's hit 1999. The
new remixed version featured the actress in an introductory voice
over, offering
commentary on the
state of the world in the year before the Millennium. The same
year she appeared in The Chemical Brothers' video for the song "Out
of Control" from the album Surrender. She is also featured
on the track "She Lives In My Lap" from the second disc
of the OutKast album Speakerboxxx The Love Below, during which
she speaks the intro and a brief interlude towards the end.
In 2004 Rosario Dawson appeared
in Oliver Stone's Alexander as the bride of Alexander the Great.
In August-September
2005, Dawson
appeared
on stage as Julia in the Public Theatre revival of Galt MacDermot's
1971 musical The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Delacorte Theater
in Central Park. She starred in the film adaptation of the popular
musical Rent, where she played the exotic dancer Mimi Marquez, replacing
the original
Mimi, Daphne Rubin-Vega, who was pregnant at the time of filming.
She also appeared in the adaptation of the graphic novel Sin City,
where she played the prostitute-dominatrix, Gail. She will appear
in Sin City's sequel in 2008.
In 2005 Dawson appeared in a graphically violent
scene in the Rob Zombie film The Devil's Rejects. Though the scene
was cut from the
final film, it is available in the deleted scenes on the DVD release.
In 2006's Clerks II, Dawson starred as Becky, the crush-turned-wife
of Dante Hicks. As she mentioned in the making of documentary, Back
to the Well, the donkey show sequence was what made her decide to
appear in the movie. In May of the same year, Dawson, an avid comic
book fan, co-created the comic book miniseries Occult Crimes Taskforce.
She was at the 2007 Comic-Con to promote her new comic book miniseries.
In 2007, Dawson co-starred with former Rent alum
Tracie Thoms in the Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez throwback
movie Death
Proof.
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Actress Teri Hatcher
Desperate Housewives
Teri Hatcher began
her performing career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at
the San Juan Girls' Ballet Studio in downtown Los Altos, California.
She later studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater.
One of her early jobs (in 1984) was as a cheerleader with the
San Francisco 49ers. Teri Hatcher Bio and Photos |
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Actress Erica Durance
Smallville
Born in Calgary, Erica Durance was
raised in Three Hills, Alberta. After graduating from high school,
Durance moved to Vancouver, British
Columbia, to pursue her interest in acting professionally. "I
wanted to get my feet wet in a smaller area than Los Angeles when
I gave it a try", Durance has said. Erica Durance Bio and
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Movie and Television
Actress Alyssa Milano
In 1983, at age 10, she landed her breakthrough
role on the new sitcom "Who's the Boss?" as Tony Danza's
saccharine sweet daughter, Samantha Micelli, a kid whose native
Brooklyn accent rivaled her TV dad's. Alyssa Milano Bio and Photos |
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Movie Actress Cameron Diaz
Cameron
Diaz left school at 16 to become a model. For
the next five years, she traveled
the globe,
working in Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and Paris. As a model
for the Elite Agency, she did commercial work for such products as
Coke, Nivea, and L.A. Gear. Cameron Diaz Bio and Photos |
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Movie Actress Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon has been featured four
times in the annual "100 Most Beautiful" issues of People
magazine. In 2007, she was selected by People and the entertainment
news program Access Hollywood as one of the best dressed female
stars of the year. Reese Witherspoon Bio and Photos |
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Movie Actress Jessica Alba
Jessica Alba's first
film role, in the 1994 film Camp Nowhere, came her way by chance.
She was cast with a bit part in the film after one of the characters
dropped out of the production. Dark-haired Jessica was cast as
the replacement, thanks to the fact that her hair matched that
of the original actress. Jessica Alba Photos |
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Television Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt has
been in front of the camera ever since she was nine when she joined
a Show Team in Texas, this was a dance team that traveled to Russia
and Denmark. When she was ten she was an international spokesperson
for LA Gear shoes. Jennifer Hewitt Bio and Pictures |
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