Dominique Fishback

thumb 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. Quotes Yeah, I was 15. I have chills just thinking about it, but it wasn’t daunting. I started writing poetry when I was 12, and my mom used to say, “Wow, Dom, you came up with that by yourself?” And I’d be like, “Yeah.” She’s like, “That’s really good.” So, I always had a knack for writing, and then I found this theater company and just wanted to act. And in order to act with this company, I had to write my own stuff, which was great. I saw my first one-woman show there called No Child, where a woman became different characters right before your eyes. Eventually, the director Stephen DiMenna asked me to get up there and do the same thing. So, I wrote one for my thesis to graduate from college called Subverted. I was in a sociology class at Pace University — I was often the only Black person in my classes — and this white boy said, “If African American males and low-income communities dressed normally, they wouldn’t be stopped by the police.” And I was so mad. I was frustrated, and I was debating with him, and I was stumbling over my words, and I looked around and nobody could advocate with me because nobody came from where I came from. And I realized that a lot of people from my neighborhood don’t get to go to a private university. Because I had this opportunity, I then wanted to use it to tell stories like mine because I would be remiss if I didn’t. So, in the show, my character unpacks her own experiences, and it connects to the slave era. It goes back and forth between the slave and modern eras to show comparisons. I played between 20 and 22 characters. I approach all my characters the same way. And it’s heart first. And it’s me figuring out what it is. And for her, it was love. She loves Marissa and she loves Ni’Jah. And her love is convoluted. And I don’t know her love in that way, but I know what it means to love my sister and my family. And I think that’s universal for all of us. I never want to make a character just an unrelatable monster. In fact, I will do my very best to find the things that are relatable. This book I love, Auditioning on Camera: An Actor’s Guide by Joseph Hacker, talks about how a character will be what they are no matter what because it’s written that way. So, if a guy is a thief, you don’t have to play him slimy because he’s going to steal anyway. I read that when I was playing Darlene in The Deuce. I realized I don’t have to ‘play’ a sex worker. I don’t have to walk or talk like what we imagine a sex worker to walk or talk like, because she is that no matter what, because those are the given circumstances. ‘Swarm’ Star Dominique Fishback On Channeling “Humanity, Heart And Love” Into Her Most Complex Roles;By Destiny Jackson on June 20, 2023 External links Category:Actresses from Philadelphia Category:Living people Category:1991 births Category:Women born in the 1990s Category:African Americans