It is officially Rosario Dawson’s birthday here on the east coast! Thank you so much to the fans from all over the world who shared their photos and artwork via flickr, tumblr, facebook, twitter and email. This special video was put together to showcase all the love fans have shown over the years and celebrate Rosario on her special day.The video features the very awesome song “SUPERCOOL” by The Bullitts. Go support and buy their album today!

Some fans wanted to share some notes as well which you’ll find below. Feel free to leave a comment for Rosario on her special day!

From: S.K. Joshi, India

My Dear Ms.Rosario Dawson,

Good morning.I sincerely hope that you are keeping very fine,in good health.Please accept my heartiest wishes on your birthday,on 9th May.
This is one of my countless attempts to reach you,as you have always been my source of inspiration,I’ll be grateful to you,if you please bless me,with your family’s autographed photograph.Though I never got despite my countinous efforts,but I hope that you would not disappoint me,this time.I pray that may God always keep you happy and healthy.

Once again,”HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU !!!!!!!!!!”

                                                       With high regards
                                                             S.K.Joshi

From: Aja

Happy Birthday To My Favorite Person In the World!!

Hey Rosario! Its my second time doing this so I’m trying to make this Birthday Shout Out better then last years… So HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! I’m happy that you got to spend another year on this earth! You did your thing all this year and I want to see you do it again! Thank you for being one of the biggest inspirations on my life. I LOVE YOU!!!! I hope u have a wonderful birthday and I want all your wishes to come true!

From: Anencio

Happy Birthday Rosario, im definely one your biggest fan. May 9th will also be my one year anniversary for being on twitter. I made one so I can just get a tweet from you and I did. Love your work, you are a great actress, actvist, you have a real kind heart. These are some of the reason why I love you and i call you my “wifey”. Happy birthday Rosario Dawson with much love from me and #TeamRosarioDawson. PS you better every year, you are the most beautiful woman on this earth.

From: Joe Kickass

Happy Birthday gorgeous.

From: Oliver Podobrin

Rosario we are so lucky to have you on the big screen – you are fantastic! May all your whishes come true on this special day.

From: Robert Copeland

Flower of Love

A single golden flower blooms
And as she does fills earthen rooms
With beauty and her sweet perfumes
In countless hearts desire looms.

Never one to wilt or fade
Promise kept, decision made
Like springtime on an April day
The ocean’s waves, late in May.

As pretty as a picture now
One must never wonder how
She sprang from barren earth unplowed
Up higher than the rainbow’s bow.

Just trust that Mother Nature’s wise
Enough to leave behind a prize
Of sunkissed petals, deep brown eyes
Shining truth, devoid of lies.

Untouched by the gardener’s glove
But picked instead by one who does
Believe she came from up above
An earthbound angel, flower of love.

RDC

Happy Birthday!

From: Anonymous

Happy birthday & best of pleasurable flowz & wishes & again simply thanx from the many for simply being you all& all the charitable & other thingz the likes of yourself have done with any& for the many

From: Benjamin Seagroves

Happy Birthday Miss Dawson! I will be 34 on the 9th. I love your work. Keep it up.

GO ARMY

From: Haris

From: John Drew

Hey Rosario, have a very awesome Birthday!!!

From: Thaiz

Feliz aniversário Rosario, que Deus possa iluminar seus caminhos hoje e sempre!!!!

From: Mauro

Buon compleanno  io li compio il 13 di maggio

From: Jerry Ables

Happy Birthday, Rosario, and many more:)

From: R. Jermaine Schex

Happy birthday, Rosario, on Wednesday the 9th! You’re still looking beautiful, and likely will for years to come.

From: Laurence

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSARIO, I LOVE YOU!!

From: Derek Brandt

Happy early birthday! Mine is on the 2nd! You have the prettiest eyes.But,you get that all the time!

From: Debbie High

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSARIO!!! YOU’RE AWESOME!!

From: Abby

Happy B-Day Preciosa!! Best wishes to you! May God keep you in that path of good success!!! Your awesome!! Besos..

From: Bobby Jones

happy birthday i know it will be as awsome as you are 

Rosario Dawson’s 33rd birthday is on May 9th and I know many of you continuously write to the site in hopes of sending along a message to her. Well now here’s your chance! Rosario has been incredibly grateful for your love and support over the past few years we’ve done this even sent a video shout out in the past.

Feel free to send your messages, photos of you with Rosario, artwork, video, any means you want to express yourself. You can comment below with your message or submit in any the following ways:

• Email your submission to the website.
• Join the flickr group and upload your photos to the pool.
• Submit via our new tumblr.
• OR Comment below with a link to your submissions.

You have until May 8th to send in your submissions. Be sure to add your name!

We’ve done this for the past two years and Rosario was extremely grateful and sent you all a video message from her birthday party to thank you. Let’s see if we can make this happen again.

Rosario’s 32nd birthday is on May 9th and I know many of you continuously write to the site in hopes of sending along a message to her. Well now here’s your chance!

Send in your emails, videos, drawings, anything you can come up with to rosarioonline@gmail.com by May 8th (the day before her birthday) in order to have your well wishes sent her way. As with anything we just have a few guidelines:

1. Write “Birthday Message For Rosario” in the subject line of the email to ensure we see it.

2. We’re only accepting things via email because frankly we would hate to lose all your hard work due to the post office.

3. This is only regarding her birthday, we do not handle requests for appearances, scripts, treatments, etc. We’ve stated that many times before on this site, however it doesn’t hurt to repeat it. Any messages that do not adhere to this will be rejected.

4. Speaking of… no self promotions. This is not the venue for it and it will be rejected.

5. We’ll be sure to highlight messages over the course of the day, however if you wish for yours to remain private just let us know in the email and we’ll respect your wishes.

6. Keep things respectful folks. No need to be lewd, the staff will reject it. Same rules apply for videos as well.

7. If you want to make a video message please upload it to youtube (or any video service of choice) and email it to us.

8. Be creative as you’d like! We encourage it.

Thanks so much for your continued support of the site and we look forward to seeing your messages!

Click here to check out Rosario’s playlist

Send in your emails, videos, drawings, anything you can come up with to rosarioonline@gmail.com by May 8th (the day before her birthday) in order to have your well wishes sent her way. As with anything we just have a few guidelines:

1.Write “Birthday Message For Rosario” in the subject line of the email to ensure we see it.

2. We’re only accepting things via email because frankly we would hate to lose all your hard work due to the post office.

3. This is only regarding her birthday, we do not handle requests for appearances, scripts, treatments, etc. We’ve stated that many times before on this site, however it doesn’t hurt to repeat it. Any messages that do not adhere to this will be rejected.

4. Speaking of… no self promotions. This is not the venue for it and it will be rejected.

5. We’ll be sure to highlight messages over the course of the day, however if you wish for yours to remain private just let us know in the email and we’ll respect your wishes.

6. Keep things respectful folks. No need to be lewd, the staff will reject it. Same rules apply for videos as well.

7. If you want to make a video message please upload it to youtube (or any video service of choice)  and email it to us.

8. Be creative as you’d like! We encourage it.

Thanks so much for your continued support of the site and we look forward to seeing your messages!

Click here if you cannot view the video.

What inspires you? Music, art, kindness, passion, travel, sunsets, flowers, wisdom, teaching, learning, rainbows in the clouds, beauty, love, community, stories, humor, honesty, imperfection, rainy days and so much more. I’ve a lust for life!

What makes you proud to be a woman? I love sisterhood, the feminine mystique, the idea of mother earth vs father time. Women possess a unique connection to life that exemplifies endurance, strength, ability, and creativity. I look forward to women supporting each other as leaders and claiming more of their power.

What are you celebrating this month? I support those women who are struggling, hurting, scared, abused, hungry and in need. I hope and pledge to help and advocate for you all as much as possible. You are not forgotten. I honor and celebrate my mother, my grandmother and all those women whose love, work and sacrifices make my life possible. I thank you Diane for being one of those women. Your openness and tenacity are such an inspiration to me. You are a true wonder woman.

Source: Diane von Furstenberg

Click read more to read about Rosario’s five favorite films in her own words.

I usually have Reservoir Dogs and Rocky Horror Picture Show on my list, because I just love them so much. I did Kids, and the first film I really can remember watching specifically to look at acting after that was Reservoir Dogs.

My dad had given me the VHS tape of it to watch over and over and over again. Well, he didn’t intend for me, I think, to watch it over and over and over again, but I watched it over and over again; I think I watched it like five or six times that week. I would come home from school and I would just watch it again, and memorize the whole thing, and I was just so blown away by the acting in it. It seemed like it must have had all this money, because you remember it being bloody, you remember the shock, all that kinda stuff. And then you watch it and you’re like, “Actually, [Quentin Tarantino] cut around all of that.” The dude with red stuff on his chest, you know what I mean? It’s all acting. And it’s such an interesting way of telling the story, going back and inside of itself. My dad, I’ll never forget, he was like, “Watch this for the acting,” and I was just blown away. So I feel like that’s a piece of work that I love looking at as sort of a modern way of getting into those huge monologues, telling stories in an epic way, and the sort of more modern kind of small stories.

Anybody who has the audacity to say that Marilyn Monroe wasn’t a good actress needs to see that f***** movie. I want you to go inside and outside of a house, jumping in a box and going, “I’m in and I’m out. And I’m in and I’m out.” And you believe it, that this woman is standing there, working the little thing, the whole body jiggling, the entire place mesmerized. There were just so many moments, and it’s shot so beautifully, and I think it’s just a remarkable film. Clark Gable in a completely different way than we’ve ever seen him before. It’s remarkable.

I think it’s a tremendous film, and I’m waiting for everyone to finally throw open their windows and say, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it any more,” because it just needs to be done, and it hasn’t been done yet.

Charles Burnett. It’s a really incredible film, shot all in black and white, 1970s, it’s Watts in Los Angeles. And it’s this guy who works in a slaughterhouse. They put it out in theaters, I think a year and a half ago, and I raced out to go see it live. The soundtrack is just so provocative, it’s so of that time. It was shot for less than $10,000…It’s a remarkable, remarkable film, and when you watch it, it’s just so profound.

It’s about Philippe Petit who walked across the World Trade Center in 1974, and it’s just…you watch that movie and it’s like you really get that whole [idea of] someone who did something super unique, that did something. It’s just an unbelievable thing; it’s so moving to watch.

That’s my new favorite film right now, and having just seen it, it’s so mindboggling. We don’t see enough documentaries; I love watching documentaries, and obviously there are really amazing ones and all that kinda stuff. But this one, I think, is profound to watch, because the footage is unbelievable, to really just see it from all different perspectives. I remember the interview with the security guard who went upstairs, and that awe on his face, and he was like, “I came out, and there’s this guy on a wire hanging between these two buildings.” They’re trying to get him to come off, but it’s just like, he can’t help himself. He’s like, “It was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.” And you feel that. Just to imagine having been there. I wasn’t born for another five years, so I missed that, but damn, that’s such an incredible thing.

I just met [Petit] recently; he’s such an odd bird, he’s not so comfortable in a social setting, but it’s like there’s an energy that comes out of him that’s just like, to know you’re truly unique, to feel that personally, you know? There are the geniuses that you meet in the world, and the Quentin Tarantinos and stuff like that. You could talk to him, and he’s like, “I know I’m a genius!” It’s amazing. But there’s a whole other level, where you’ve done it physically…everything else must seem so small. [laughs] Or maybe big, actually, you know?

RD: Yeah — Kevin [Smith], Spike [Lee], Robert [Rodriguez]. Very lucky. Oliver [Stone] — I mean, it’s remarkable. Larry Clark, I mean, is so genius. I would love to work with Harmony Korine, because I think his directing is so incredible and I love his visual style and obviously his storytelling. But yeah, I’ve been really blessed, to work with such incredible people, and mostly because that’s how I started, you know? Kids was such a huge film; people are such big fans of it. It sparked the eye of Spike, then other people saw [me in his films]. For someone who never wanted to be an actor — it wasn’t a dream or possibility or idea — it’s kind of remarkable to look at my career now.

Mark Webber, I think, did a great job on this film — a first time director. It’s definitely one of the most powerful films that I feel like I’ve ever done, and I’m in two scenes in it, but it’s one of my favorite films that I’ve ever done. Luckily — because of Larry, because of Harmony, because of Kids — I feel like I can sit down and talk to someone who goes, “I’ve never held a camera before in my life, but I’ve got a story I want to tell and I want you to tell it with me,” and I’m down. And I feel very lucky that, even with the more established directors that I’ve worked with, that I’ve also had an amazing opportunity to work with some of these really great directors as they’re just starting their careers.

You seem to really be able to successfully balance working on big budget productions as well as the smaller indie films, made by first-time directors. The dichotomy of that has got to be fun.

RD: Oh yeah, it’s remarkable. I think it’s a great balance and it’s powerful for me. I mean, you’ve got, I think it’s on Rotten Tomatoes — or maybe it’s AskMen, but I think it’s on Rotten Tomatoes — where you guys are talking about, like, you know, if Pluto Nash didn’t kill our careers, then nothing will. [Laughs] “She’s here to stay.” And you know, I roll with those punches. I get that. They’re all different moments in my career.

RD: I knew. We knew we were making a bad movie. On that one there was really no doubt about it. I read that script and I threw it in the garbage. It’s called, “I was nineteen years old, and I needed to get off my couch, man.” It was an awesome experience. I mean, at the same time, it’s like, it was Eddie Murphy, Pam Grier, Randy Quaid, Joey Pantoliano, Ileana Douglas…Yo, that was an amazing experience. We had a ball doing that project; there just was not a good movie to show for it, you know? Sometimes it’s the exact opposite; you work with people you hate, and then the movie’s great, and you gotta talk about it all happily, when it’s like, “Actually, I hated working on that movie.” But this one was one that was really great; I just count myself really lucky for the good ones and the bad ones that have gotten me here, because I’m gonna be 30 this year and I’m feeling really reflective, and I feel pretty good.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes