She teamed up with friend Talia Lugacy, whom she met at the Lee Strasberg Academy, to produce and star in "Descent". On July 7, 2007, Dawson presented at the American leg of Live Earth. In 2008, Dawson starred with Will Smith in "Seven Pounds" and in "Eagle Eye", produced by Steven Spielberg. Beginning in August, she starred in "Gemini Division", an online science fiction series. In the computer animated series "Afterworld", she voiced the character Officer Delondre Baines. On January 17, 2009, Dawson hosted "Saturday Night Live". Later in the year, she voiced Artemis of Bana-Mighdall in the animated film "Wonder Woman". In 2009, Dawson performed in "The People Speak", a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States". In 2009, Dawson also voiced the character of Velvet Von Black in Rob Zombie's animated feature, "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto". For the Kasabian album "West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum", she is featured singing on the track "West Ryder Silver Bullet". In 2010, she starred in the movies "", as Persephone, and "Unstoppable", as railway yardmaster Connie. In 2013, she played Apple's mother in the independent film "Gimme Shelter". The following year, she reprised her role as Gail in "". In 2015, she played Claire Temple in the Netflix web television series "Daredevil", a role which she reprised in "Jessica Jones" and "Luke Cage". Dawson's likeness was also used in the "Jessica Jones" tie-in comic as her character on both shows. Dawson has continued this role in 2017 in "Iron Fist" and "The Defenders". In 2018, she played the female lead role in the Netflix movie, "Krystal". In 2020, she was cast as the "Star Wars" character Ahsoka Tano in the second season of "The Mandalorian" on Disney+. Dawson is a self-professed Trekkie who mentioned both her and her brother's love of "Star Trek" in an interview with Conan O'Brien, and also demonstrated her knowledge of several Klingon words. Dawson adopted an 11-year-old girl in 2014. From 2016 to 2017, Dawson dated comedian and television host Eric Andre.