Dominique Swain

Dominique Swain (full name Dominique Ariane Swain) is an American actress born on August 12, 1980 in Malibu, California. She became known for taking on the lead role in Adrian Lyne's 1997 adaptation of Lolita.

Career

He got into Hollywood as a stuntman; He took part in the shooting of the 1993 film The Good Son, replacing one of the child actors. In 1995, when she was only 15 years old, she was chosen among thousands of candidates for the role of Dolores Haze in Lolita, adapted from Vladimir Nabokov's novel. The film, in which she starred opposite Jeremy Irons, was released in 1997 and received widespread attention due to its controversial subject matter.

In the same year, she played the role of Jamie, the daughter of Sean Archer, played by John Travolta, in Face/Off, directed by John Woo. In the following period, he worked mainly in independent cinema; Girl (1998), The Smokers (2000), Tart (2001), Pumpkin (2002) and Alpha Dog (2006) are among the films of this period.

Since the mid-2000s, he has appeared in many low-budget productions in the horror and thriller genre, and appeared as a guest actor in TV series such as JAG and Ghost Whisperer.

Despite his long and productive career, Swain is still best remembered for Lolita.