PEOPLE
NEW YORK — Now that she's off the presidential campaign trail with her boyfriend Sen. Cory Booker, Rosario Dawson is getting back to the business we know and love her for.
The former “Luke Cage” actress is making an official jump from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the DC Extended Universe with her latest gig.
Dawson has been cast as the lead in the upcoming HBO Max pilot “DMZ,” an HBO rep confirmed to The Daily News.
The potential series, based on the DC comic books of the same title, is described as an American Civil War drama set in the future. The series will follow Alma Ortego, a New York medic played by Dawson who, in addition to saving lives in the war-torn city, is desperately searching for her lost son. She becomes an unlikely source of hope in America.
This is the latest project for the actress — whose mother Isabel Celeste, is a writer and singer of Cuban and Puerto Rican ancestry. Dawson will star in the Sam Esmail-produced USA Network anthology series “Briarpatch” in February.
LOS ANGELES — The singers from five Oscar-nominated songs will reprise their performances live at next month's Academy Awards.Producers said best actress nominee Cynthia Erivo, Elton John, Idina Menzel, Chrissy Metz and Randy Newman will perform during the Feb. 9 ceremony.Erivo will sing “Stand Up” from “Harriet.” John will perform “(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again” from “Rocketman.” Newman will sing “I Can't Let You Throw Yourself Away” from “Toy Story 4.”Menzel will be joined by singer-songwriter Aurora to perform “Into The Unknown” from “Frozen II.” Chrissy Metz will sing “I'm Standing With You” from “Breakthrough.”
CHICAGO — The official portraits of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama from the National Portrait Gallery will begin a five-city national tour in Chicago in June 2021.The Art Institute of Chicago will host the portraits from June 18, 2021, to Aug. 15, 2021, the gallery announced Thursday.Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama and Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama were unveiled in February 2018. Wiley and Sherald are the first African-American artists chosen to paint the gallery's official president and first lady portraits.After leaving Chicago, the portraits will travel to the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.
