Dominique Fishback

Fishback first became interested in acting at about the age of 10.[6] She graduated from Pace University with a B.A. in Theater in 2013.[7]

In 2014, Fishback premiered her Off-Off-Broadway play Subverted, in which she played twenty two characters.[8][9][10] Subverted was nominated for a 2015 Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Solo Performance.[11][12] The actress's first major recurring role was in the Yonkers housing drama Show Me a Hero as single mother Billie Rowan.[13] In 2016, Abingdon Theatre Company announced Fishback as one of the recipients of its inaugural Residency Program.[14][15]

Her first series regular role was in the 1970s Times Square drama The Deuce.[16] Fishback has been noted as one of the standouts in the show due to her performance as the "sweetly vulnerable" prostitute Darlene.[17][18] Co-creator David Simon has noted her strengths as an actress in playing Darlene.[19] 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.[20]

In December 2017, Fishback appeared as a younger version of Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria Carter, in his music video for "Smile."[21] Her first film, Night Comes On, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.[22] She also played the part of Kenya in the film The Hate U Give (2018), which is based on the popular young adult book.[23]

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.[24][25] 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.

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