Dominique Fishback


Dominique Fishback is an American actress and playwright who is best known for playing Billie Rowan on Show Me a Hero and Darlene on The Deuce.

Early life

Fishback graduated from Pace University with a B.A. in Theater.

Career

In 2014, Fishback premiered her Off-Off-Broadway play Subverted where she played 22 characters. Subverted was nominated for a 2015 Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. In 2016, Abingdon Theatre Company announced Fishback as one of its recipients of its inaugural Residency Program.
The actress's first major recurring role was in the Yonkers housing drama Show Me a Hero as single mother Billie Rowan.
Her first series regular role is in the 1970s Times Square drama The Deuce. Fishback has been noted as one of the standouts in the show due to her performance as the "sweetly vulnerable" prostitute Darlene. Co-creator David Simon has noted her strengths as an actress in playing Darlene. 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.
Her first film is Night Comes On, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
She played the part of Kenya in the film The Hate U Give, which is based on the popular young adult book. Also in 2018, Fishback appeared as a younger version of Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria Carter, in his music video for "Smile."

Filmography

Film

Television