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My Take
Dominic Sessa is the young actor I am watching most closely right now. Almost no one debuts in a leading role for an Alexander Payne film and walks away with a Critics' Choice award and a BAFTA nomination, yet that is exactly what happened with The Holdovers. Plucked from a school stage, his rise reads like a fairy tale, but the performance itself convinces me it was no fluke. There is a Scorpio-like depth and stillness to his work that you cannot fake. I suspect we are watching the early chapter of a long and serious career.
Overview
Dominic Sessa (born October 25, 2002) is an American actor. He made his film debut with a breakthrough role in Alexander Payne's Christmas comedy drama film The Holdovers (2023), for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer and earned a British Academy Film Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Dominic Sessa
- Name (Japanese)
- ドミニク・セッサ
- Reading
- どみにく・せっさ
- Born
- October 25, 2002 (age 23)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Horse
- Origin
- Cherry Hill, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2023 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
- 2024 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.