Dominique Thorne (born November 5, 1997) is an American actress. She began her career with appearances in the films If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021). In 2022, she began playing Riri Williams/IIronheart with the Marvel Cinematic Universe feature film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. She is set to reprise her role as Riri Williams/ironheart in the upcoming Disney+ miniseries Ironheart. In 2024, she will star in the Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck film Freaky Tales. Dominique Thorne was born November 8, 1997, in New York to Trinidadian immigrants. She has two brothers. Thorne attended Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan (PPAS), where she studied dramatic theatre formally. During her senior year of high school, she won the 2015 Young Arts Award in Spoken Theatre as well as the U.S. Presidential ...read more