User:Dominique Thaysen

Dominique Thaysen was born in Cape Town, South Africa, the youngest child of Shelley Thaysen (Author) and Shaun Thaysen. She was raised in many different parts of the city. Thaysen is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some french Huguenot and German) decent.

Thaysen received an education as a ballet, tap and jazz dancer. There is not much for a young actress, dancer to do in South Africa, so she soon traveled to the United States. She obtained a scholarship from The New York Film Academy to study for only one year. She was also worked as a photo model at this time.

In 2013 her mother bought her a one way ticket to Los Angeles and she started visiting all the agents on Hollywood Blvd, without any luck. After being noticed on the popular Television show The Mindy Project, she landed a role as Mindy's intern, it was a non-speaking role unfortunately.

Her first role was as the "Party girl" in a short film called "Figaro" which was a non-speaking role with about 3 seconds of screen time. She is currently writing her own webisode and plans to release it to the net in the year 2019.