Domino Suzy Kirke-Badgley (born 17 December 1983) is a British-American singer,

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, and actress.

Life and career

Kirke is of English and

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heritage. She was named after

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, whom her mother met when Harvey was a young girl. The Kirke family are a junior branch of a family of

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landed gentry, and descend also from the Gibson-Craig baronets. Kirke's maternal grandmother was

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. Domino was trained musically by her father

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, the drummer for Free and

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. From the age of nine, she sang in choirs, operas, and plays before moving to

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, where she attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School to study classical voice and piano. Her mother, Lorraine, runs the

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boutique in

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, and her sisters,

Lola Kirke Lola Clementine Kirke (born 27 September 1990) is a British-American actress and singer-songwriter. She starred in the 2015 film ''Mistress America'' and the Amazon Studios television series ''Mozart in the Jungle.'' She appeared in '' Gone Girl ...

and

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, are actresses. Her maternal grandfather was property investor,

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. After being spotted at a

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performance at age 17 by producer Andres Levin, Kirke was signed to his label, Fun Machine. Shortly thereafter, she joined forces with

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, and formed the band ''DOMINO'', which recorded an EP with

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and toured for three years with the likes of Gang of Four and

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.The band was also featured in

Lena Dunham Lena Dunham (, born May 13, 1986) is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is known as the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series ''Girls (TV series), Girls'' (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy ...

's indie movie ''

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''. The video for their song "Green Umbrella", directed by Galland, won Best Musical Form at the 2006 Da Vinci Film and Video Festival. "The Guard" was produced by Domino,

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, and Jorge Elbrecht and was recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Personal life

In 2009, she gave birth to a son with musician Morgan O'Kane. In 2014, Kirke began a relationship with actor and musician

Penn Badgley Penn Dayton Badgley (born November 1, 1986) is an American actor and musician. He is known for his roles as Dan Humphrey in The CW teen drama series ''Gossip Girl'' (2007–2012) and as Joe Goldberg in the Netflix thriller series '' You'' (2018 ...

. They married in a New York courthouse on 27 February 2017. In February 2020, Kirke and Badgley announced they were expecting their first child together after suffering two miscarriages. On 20 September 2020, Kirke announced via her Instagram account that she had given birth to a son.

Entrepreneurial endeavors

Domino became a

around 2009 and co-founded a doula business collective
Carriage House Birth
In November 2021, she, along with entrepreneur Joanna Griffiths, released ''Life After Birth: Portraits of Love and the Beauty of Parenthood'', a book about the experiences of postpartum mothers.

Discography

*''Everyone Else Is Boring'' EP (2006, download; 2007, Allido) *''Mark Ronson Presents Hard Rock'' compilation (2007, Hard Rock Café) (song: "Tropical Moonlight") *''Adults Only'' (2010) *''The Guard'' EP (2012, download) *''Beyond Waves'' (2017)

References

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