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Dominique Swain
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Actor Born: August 12, 1980 Biography:An actress who won a significant dose of notoriety for her title role in "Adrian Lyne"'s 1997 adaptation of "Lolita", "Dominique Swain" had the dubious honor of being caught up in the scandal of her feature film debut. Thanks to the content of the film -- which, unlike "Stanley Kubrick"'s earlier version of Nabokov's novel, emphasized its more explicitly sexual aspects -- "Lolita" had great difficulty finding a U.S. distributor and was effectively consigned to video store shelves. However, many of the critics who did see the film were impressed with Swain's performance, remarking that she more than held her own opposite such seasoned costars as "Jeremy Irons" and "Melanie Griffith".
Born, according to legend, in the back of her father's Datsun somewhere on the Santa Monica Freeway on August 12, 1980, Swain grew up with three sisters (one of whom, Chelsea, is also an actress) in Malibu. Her interest... Full Biography
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