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Actor
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Female
Birthday
22 March
Location
New York, United States
Edit pageDominique Fishback
Biography
Dominique Fishback (born March 22, 1991) is an American actress. She played Billie Rowan on Show Me a Hero, Darlene on The Deuce, 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.
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.
In December 2017, Fishback appeared as a younger version of Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria Carter, in his music video for “Smile.” Her first film, Night Comes On, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. She also played the part of Kenya in the film The Hate U Give (2018), which is based on the popular young adult book.
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.
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.
