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Jonathan Wenk
Dominique Fishbackis a deep believer in manifesting one’s own destiny.
The actress, 32, who’s having a star-making year, earning Emmy buzz for her unhinged performance in the provocative Prime Video seriesSwarm, now stars as the female lead of the newTransformersfilm,Rise of the Beasts. In an interview with PEOPLE, the East New York, Brooklyn native details her incredible rise to fame.
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Fishback credits her mom, a schoolteacher, for seeing her acting potential early on. At 12, she began setting her career goals. “I saw things around my neighborhood that I knew I didn’t necessarily want,” she says. “A lot of adults around me were miserable at their jobs. So I was like, ‘Okay, I really have to do something that I love so that everybody around me can feel peace. I have to go towards my dreams so that I have no regrets.”
Her first big break came in 2015 when she booked the HBO miniseriesShow Me a Hero. Films such as 2018’sThe Hate U Giveand 2021’s Oscar-nominatedJudas and the Black Messiahfollowed.
Now living in Los Angeles, Fishback says she’s just “just trusting the process and my intuition” going forward in her career. In her downtime she makes video journals, something she’s been doing for the past few years. “Journals remind me that I manifested the things that I wanted,” she says.
Transformers: Rise of the Beastsis now playing in theaters.
source: people.com
