1. Dominic Keating is a British television, film and theatre actor best known for his portrayals of Tony in the Channel 4 sitcom Desmond's and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed on Star Trek: Enterprise.
20 Facts About Dominic Keating
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Dominic Keating's father was Irish; his maternal grandfather, a brigadier, was awarded an OBE.
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Dominic Keating's mother worked as an actress for a number of years.
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Dominic Keating played the character Cripple in The Ragged School.
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Dominic Keating then attended Uppingham School where he continued pursuing drama under Chris Richardson.
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At Uppingham School Theatre, Dominic Keating played Laertes in a production of Hamlet; Rowan Atkinson reviewed the performance.
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Dominic Keating was part of the Cadet Force before realising he did not wish to proceed with a military career.
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Dominic Keating had success on the UK stage before working as a television and film actor.
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Dominic Keating originated the roles of Cosmo in Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney and Bryan in Michael Wall's Amongst the Barbarians, for which Wall won first prize in the Mobil Playwrighting Competition.
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Dominic Keating first received major attention in the UK with a semi-regular role as Tony in the Channel 4 sitcom Desmond's which he was cast for after his role in the play Screamers.
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Dominic Keating has made guest appearances in Inspector Morse and other television programmes.
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Dominic Keating guest starred on series including Buffy The Vampire Slayer, G vs E and Special Unit 2, before landing a role in the main cast of Star Trek: Enterprise as Lieutenant Malcolm Reed; the show ran for four seasons.
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Dominic Keating joined the cast of the hit show Heroes for its second season, playing an Irish mobster in a four-episode arc.
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Dominic Keating guest-starred for three episodes on the Fox TV series Prison Break, and in 2010 guest-starred on the FX original series Sons of Anarchy.
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Dominic Keating appears in several films including Jungle 2 Jungle, The Hollywood Sign, The Auteur Theory, Certifiably Jonathan, and Hollywood Kills.
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Dominic Keating lent his voice to Robert Zemeckis's animated version of Beowulf.
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Dominic Keating had a role in two early 1990s Vidal Sassoon commercials, where his British pronunciation of "salon" resulted in a spoof on Saturday Night Live.
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Also for Sprint, Dominic Keating appeared in a 2009 cinema courtesy spot that encouraged cinema goers to avoid using their phones during the screening of movies.
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In 1997, Dominic Keating was one of the directors for the series The Heartbreak Cafe.
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Until 2022, Dominic Keating had been engaged three times; as of July 2024, he is engaged to Dr Sarah Falk.