Dominique Dauwe

Born in Belgium, Dominique Dauwe started auditioning as a musician for theater productions while studying Piano at The Jazz Studio in Antwerp. During the workshop process of a Festival d'Avignon production he found his love for acting and moved to London to further his career as an actor. Volunteering his time at music programs in London's inner city schools, he was introduced to Special Needs Education. Here, he shifted his career from the stage to music and sensory room projects around East London Schools, eventually committing to a Special Needs School in Bethnal Green.Through a teaching colleague, he met the people at Jabberwocky, a Non-Profit for people with disabilities on Martha's Vineyard, MA. After years of volunteering at an off-shoot, The Cheshire Project in Venice, CA he became part of Zeno Mountain Farm in Lincoln, VT where, after 15 years, he picked up acting again, encouraged by actor and director friends also volunteering at Zeno Mountain Farm, the subject of the Documentary by Michael Barnett, Becoming Bulletproof (2014).Committing to Los Angeles, he quickly landed parts in TV and film. Not too long after, he started producing, as well as scoring projects and established himself as a character actor, often portraying the antagonist.Together with Jamie Lee Curtis, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and Amy Brenneman, he is an Executive Producer, and musician on the soundtrack, for Ready To Ride: A Musical Homecoming, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Benjamin Pratt (2020). Show less «