Rosario Dawson and Sen. Cory Booker have called it quits on their relationship of more than two years, PEOPLE confirms.
A source close to the New Jersey lawmaker says the former couple aren’t dating anymore but remain good friends. (A Booker rep had no comment; reps for Dawson did not respond to a request.)
Dawson and Booker first crossed paths at a political fundraiser for a mutual friend in summer 2018. Though sparks didn’t fly right away, months later, the two reconnected.
“I mean, gosh, that night we talked for hours and hours,” Booker, 52, told The Washington Post in 2019. “I had trouble asking for her phone number … I think I said something really stupid like, ‘Uh, how would I get in touch with you?’ And she mercifully said something like, ‘Oh, you want my phone number?’ And my insides were like, ‘Hell, yeah!’ ”
Rosario Dawson, 42, told the paper she found Booker to be “so charming,” “confident,” and “capable” — all despite their initial slow start.
“It’s not like that translates to being some super-smooth kind of guy,” she said at the time. “That’s not his style.” But his sense of humor helped. “What wins me over with him is definitely the dad jokes,” Dawson told the Post.
The pair initially held off on confirming they were dating until Dawson was spotted by TMZ at a Washington, D.C., airport.
“So far so wonderful,” she said at the time of her romance with the then-presidential candidate. “He’s a wonderful human being. It’s good to spend some time together when we can.”
By May 2020, as Booker was in the midst of his campaign to be the Democratic presidential nominee, the couple took a big step when Dawson moved in with him and made his Newark, New Jersey, home her own.
“This is the first time in my life I’ve really lived with somebody — and obviously Rosario and I are enjoying and adjusting to that, right?” Booker told BuzzFeed the following October.
In January 2021, Dawson also accompanied Booker to President Joe Biden‘s Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol. He supported her by wearing a matching mask from her company Studio 189 and she supported him by congratulating the senator on defending his seat.
Rosario Dawson is an actress, producer, singer, and activist. Dawson’s career started when she appeared on Sesame Street as a child, but her feature debut came at 15 when she was spotted sitting outside her home.
Rosario Dawson on Twitter: “I’m not biracial. I’m half Puerto Rican/Afro Cuban & half Irish/Native Indian.
Rosario was born on May 9, 1979 in New York City. Her mother, Isabel Celeste, of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban descent, is a singer, and her stepfather, who raised her, Greg Dawson, of Irish descent, is a construction laborer. Her parents, who married when both were teenagers, eventually divorced.
