Dominique Fishback: 5 Things To Know About Breakout Star Of ‘Swarm’, Starring Billie Eilish

• Dominique Fishback is an American histrion who got her commencement connected Broadway astatine the property of 13
• She starred successful ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ alongside Daniel Kaluuya
• The histrion won the pb relation successful Donald Glover’s ‘Swarm’

Dominique Fishback has been receiving rave reviews for her enactment successful Donald Glover’s Swarm, the caller constricted fearfulness bid with an episode written by erstwhile First Daughter Malia Obama. The Prime Video task boasts Domnique arsenic Dre, an obsessed instrumentality who is unraveling during her travel to conscionable her icon, a Beyonce-esque popular star. “‘Swarm’ is, supra each things, a spectacular showcase for Fishback,” Variety wrote, adding, “She’s been softly gathering an awesome assemblage of enactment for years, and judging from this ravenous crook she’s done being quiet.” Let’s look astatine her awesome assemblage of enactment and larn much astir the stunning star, below.

Dominique Fishback stars successful ‘Swarm’. (Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock)

Where is Dominique from?

Domnique is simply a tried-and-true New Yorker, calved successful the Big Apple connected March 22, 1991. Her adjacent proximity to the Great White Way whitethorn person influenced her acting bug, arsenic she started studying play aboriginal on.  At the ripe aged property of 20, Dominque not lone graduated from Pace University with a BA successful Theater, but she besides landed a relation successful an Off-Broadway accumulation called Subverted wherever she played 22 characters.

HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ was her archetypal bid regular role

Dominique Fishback successful ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’. (Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection)

Dominque yet landed a steady(er) paycheck erstwhile she won a relation successful the 1970s Times Square play ‘The Deuce,’ which ran connected HBO from 2017 to 2019. Her show arsenic the hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold, Darlene, won her a legion of fans and a heap of captious praise. 

She asked to person a therapist connected acceptable of ‘Swarm’

Swarm is simply a melodramatic fearfulness series, aft all, truthful dense topics similar self-harm and homicide are often portion of it. With that successful mind, Dominique wanted her coworkers to person entree to intelligence wellness attraction portion shooting the scenes.

“I asked them that they person therapists connected acceptable for radical to beryllium capable to speech to, due to the fact that though it’s acting, it could beryllium triggering,” she told Complex. “We don’t cognize what radical are going done successful their lives. So I wanted to beryllium conscious and alert of that to marque definite radical could spell location successful 1 portion and consciousness astatine bid arsenic overmuch arsenic possible.”

Dominique auditioned for Chloe Bailey’s portion successful ‘Swarm’

Chloe Bailey and Dominique Fishback. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Domnique primitively tried retired for the portion of Dre’s sister Marissa, according to Complex. However, she asked the show’s creators Donald Glover and Janine Nabers for the pb relation instead, got it and Marissa went to Chloe Bailey. Chloe’s quality Marissa starts disconnected the archetypal occurrence successful a intersexual concern with her boyfriend Khalid, who is played by Damson Idris. And the mature scenes didn’t scare disconnected Chloe.

“I was truthful excited to bash this amusement due to the fact that it highlights sisterhood and intelligence health,” Chloe told Complex. “And Marissa is Chlöe. I had euphony to prevention me. So it was similar I got to beryllium myself. I americium truthful blessed to beryllium a portion of an unthinkable formed and I can’t hold for radical to ticker the remainder and spot who other is simply a portion of it, who I cognize they’ll freak retired and love.”

Dominque and Chloe truly deed it disconnected filming. Not lone did they stock a 40-minute outcry aft an aggravated scene, per Complex, but Dominique besides loves to stock snaps of the friends connected her Instagram.

Bille Eilish makes her acting debut alongside Dominique

Swarm has plentifulness of worldly successful its breakdown of fame and fandom, which allows for plentifulness of A-listers to articulation successful connected the amusive with impermanent roles. Daily Show vet X Mayo has an unthinkable part, but the main attraction is Grammy-winning vocalist Billie Eilish, who reportedly tears up the scenes arsenic a “creepy doyenne of a NXIVM-inspired women’s cult,” according to Variety.

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