American actress
Dominique Fishback
Fishback in 2018
Born (1991-03-22 ) March 22, 1991 (age 33)
[1] Alma mater
Pace University Occupation Actress Years active 2013–present
Dominique Fishback (born March 22, 1991) is an American actress. She played Billie Rowan on
Show Me a Hero ,
[2] Darlene on
The Deuce ,
[3]
[4] and
Deborah Johnson in
Judas and the Black Messiah , the latter of which earned nominations for a
Critics' Choice Movie Award , and a
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role .
[5] In 2023, she began starring in the
Amazon Prime Video psychological horror series
Swarm ; her performance in the series has received universal praise, earning her a nomination for
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie at the
75th Primetime Emmy Awards .
[6]
Early life
Fishback first became interested in acting at about the age of 10.
[7] She graduated from
Pace University with a B.A. in Theater in 2013.
[8]
Career
In 2014, Fishback premiered her
Off-Off-Broadway play Subverted , in which she played twenty two characters.
[9]
[10]
[11] Subverted was nominated for a 2015
Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.
[12]
[13] The actress's first major recurring role was in the
Yonkers housing drama
Show Me a Hero as single mother Billie Rowan.
[14] In 2016, Abingdon Theatre Company announced Fishback as one of the recipients of its inaugural Residency Program.
[15]
[16]
Her first series regular role was in the 1970s
Times Square drama
The Deuce .
[17] Fishback has been noted as one of the standouts in the show due to her performance as the "sweetly vulnerable" prostitute Darlene.
[18]
[19] Co-creator
David Simon has noted her strengths as an actress in playing Darlene.
[20] For her role on
The Deuce , Fishback was listed by
USA Today as one of five new faces that people should be watching on fall 2017 television.
[21]
In December 2017, Fishback appeared as a younger version of
Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria Carter, in his music video for "Smile."
[22] Her first film,
Night Comes On , premiered at the
2018 Sundance Film Festival .
[23] She also played the part of Kenya in the film
The Hate U Give (2018), which is based on the
popular young adult book .
[24]
Fishback plays a street-smart teenager in
Project Power , directed by
Ariel Schulman and
Henry Joost , opposite
Jamie Foxx and
Joseph Gordon-Levitt , which was released on August 14, 2020, by
Netflix .
[25]
[26] In 2021, she starred in
Judas and the Black Messiah alongside
Daniel Kaluuya , as
Deborah Johnson , the partner of
Fred Hampton and the expectant mother of
Fred Hampton Jr. In 2023, she starred in
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts , the sequel to
Bumblebee , directed by
Steven Caple Jr.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
References
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"THE NOMINEES" .
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