Biography
Dominique Jackson is an American-Tobagonian actress, author, model, and reality TV star most well-known role as an actor is Elektra Abundance, which she played in the FX series Pose. She has been featured in Vogue España as a model.
Age
She is 49 years old as of March 20, 2024. She was born in 1975 in Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago. Her real name is Dominique Brebnor.
Family – Education
Jackson shared her grandmother’s upbringing. She had a difficult upbringing marked by sexual assault and bullying. Her Tobagoan family and community would not accept her as transsexual, and she received constant criticism for being too feminine. She relocated to the US at the age of 15, living with her mother.
She and her mother relocated to Baltimore when she was fifteen years old. Jackson was raised in a deeply religious home and became involved in the church at a young age. Her family relocated to New York when she was a young child, but she continued to live in Trinidad and Tobago with her grandmother. Jackson disclosed that she was sexually assaulted by a church member when she was approximately eleven years old.
Wife
She dated Al Jackson for around 18 years before getting married to him in a courtroom in 2016. The wedding took place in the middle of a Strut episode.
Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Height
She stands at a height of 6 feet 1 inches (1.85 m).
Career
During her time in the US, Jackson experienced vagrancy and went to sex work and living off charge cards for endurance. It was in 1993, while living in Baltimore, Maryland, that Jackson was acquainted with the dance hall scene. She then resided in different houses, including Revlon and Appeal, prior to getting comfortable the Place of Sinclair in New York City.
So she could foster the ideal open doors, Jackson did the greater part of her initial demonstrating work for nothing. In 2009, she turned into an occupant model for style creator Adrian Alicea and strolled for the Mercedes-Benz Design Week. She has additionally demonstrated for Vogue España. She strolled for the 2021 Mugler show, alongside another trans model, Tracker Schafer.
Jackson has showed up in My Reality, My STORY, a Caribbean LGBTQ oral history and narrating narrative series created by the Caribbean Equity Venture, the narrative Noticeable: The LGBTQ Caribbean Diaspora and the Oxygen unscripted tv series Swagger (2016). Her work on Swagger procured her a GLAAD Media Grant selection.
In 2018, Jackson started showing up in the main job of Elektra Overflow on the FX series Posture, set in the dance hall subculture scene in late-1980s New York City. The series debuted on June 3, 2018, and pulled in basic praise. The main season bragged the biggest cast transsexual entertainers for a prearranged network series, with north of 50 transsexual characters/entertainers. She proceeded with her job as Elektra Wintour in Posture’s second and third seasons.
In 2021, Jackson featured close by Dionne Warwick and others in the short film Entry, made by Solange Knowles. Jackson has been open about her emotional well-being battles. Following a thirteen-year composing process, she let her collection of memoirs The Transgender out of Tobago. She has worked for a few charitable associations, for example, Objective Tomorrow in the Bronx, that give effort and administrations to the LGBTQ+ people group. In 2020, Jackson showed up in a progression of public help declarations made by the Common liberties Mission in collaboration with WarnerMedia, to help trans and non-paired networks.
Movies
♦ 2020 – Chick Fight
♦ 2015 – MY TRUTH, MY STORY: A Caribbean LGBTQ+ Oral History Project
♦ 2009 – Christopher Street: The Series
TV Shows
♦ 2022 – Legendary
♦ 2022 – American Horror Stories
♦ 2021 – American Gods
♦ 2020 – Legendary
♦ 2018–21 – Pose
♦ 2016 – Strut
♦ 2015 – Call Me