Dominique DuVernay

In the 9th grade, at age 14, Dominique got a large role in her first play and absolutely loved it. The play was for Victory Outreach church in Oakland, Ca that boasted an audience of roughly 400 people every night. Not bad for a church play.

This is what led her to join her high school's drama club in 10th grade and land a lead role in her school's play that she'd never get to perform due to once again relocating.

In mid 2010, with the immense support of her mother, she decided to continue pursuing her career and despite the negative predictions of others, her career has soared more since having a child, higher and faster than ever before.

In June, 2010 she landed her first principal role in a feature film that led her to film for 2 weeks in Wilmington, NC. The film is called "Bolden!" and she both dances and acts as a fairy like teenage nymph in this unique piece. Her next role would be her biggest and most exciting yet. She landed a role on the 4th season of the wildly popular hit BET television series "The Game". She appeared as "Sheila Flores", the ditsy yet spicy replacement assistant to one of the show's leading characters, "Malik Wright". From there, things only got better.

Upon becoming pregnant in 2009, she took a little over a year break from pursuing her career to focus on her baby and college.

She hit a milestone in 2008 when she landed principal roles in 2 sketches of the never to be released "Mike Epps Comedy Show".

Upon graduating high school with honors in 2007, Dominique chose to seriously pursue becoming a professional actress. She started out taking acting classes with various coaches in the New Orleans community and soon began working in a number of micro budget independent films, shorts, student films, and another play along with dancing and modeling in 3 music videos; "Love Is Free"- Sheryl Crow, "For A Minute"- B. G feat. T. I. and "Bubblegum"- B. G.

She and her family were able to move back to New Orleans in late 2006.

Dominique DuVernay was born in New Orleans, La to a single mother and absentee father. This Aries/Taurean is one of few authentic New Orleans Creoles left as she is part African American, French, Native American, & Italian. She is simply a rare mixture all across the board from her unique ethnic composition to her national, underground holiday of a birthday "4-20", which lands her on an extremely rare zodiac cusp that among other things, contributes to her being quite the interesting person. At the age of 7, she, her mother, and her 3 month old sister moved to Oakland, Ca via Greyhound with only $200 to their names. Upon arrival, they lived in various women's shelters throughout California's Bay Area. Over the next 8 years, she and her family moved back and forth between a number of cities in both California and Louisiana including, Berkley, Oakland, Concord, Pittsburg, San Leandro, New Orleans, Metairie, Algiers, Gretna, Harvey, and many wards and areas among them. She and her family moved around nearly every 6 months, never longer than 1 year in any given place. In 2005, a mere 7 months after moving back to New Orleans from San Leandro, Ca, Hurricane Katrina forced her and her family to live in Prairieville, La and later Chalmette, La.

Due to the constant relocating her entire life, Dominique has attended a whopping total of 23 schools from Kindergarten through 12th grade.