Dominic West
Dominic West
Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West is an English actor, musician and director. He is best known for portraying Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO drama series The Wire, and won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor at the 2012 British Academy Television Awards for portraying serial killer Fred West in Appropriate Adult. He stars as Noah Solloway on the Showtime drama series, The Affair, for which he has received a Golden Globe nomination...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth15 October 1969
years next auditions
If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.
mother dad thinking
I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.
thinking faces funny-face
I think I've got a funny face.
crude cooks
I'm a rather crude cook.
dad parent mum
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
fun people fans
I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and cameramen.
wife taste married
Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.
kissing hell reactions
The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.
opportunity come-up
You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.
culture television exposed
Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.
men world best-dressed
Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.
thinking people satan
People seem to think I'm Satan.
thinking careers wire
No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all.
play comic wanted
I've always wanted to play more comic parts.