Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West was born on 15 October 1969 and is an English actor, director and musician.
35 Facts About Dominic West
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Dominic West's breakthrough came with the role of Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO series The Wire.
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Dominic West then starred in BBC series The Hour earning a Golden Globe Award nomination.
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Dominic West played Jean Valjean in the 2018 BBC miniseries Les Miserables.
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Dominic West has since starred in the Netflix series Stateless, and the Amazon Studios The Pursuit of Love.
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Dominic West is currently playing the role of Dr Chris Cox in the Sky One series Brassic.
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Dominic West has since appeared in Chicago, Mona Lisa Smile, 300, Punisher: War Zone, John Carter, Pride, Testament of Youth, Money Monster, Genius, The Square, Tomb Raider, Colette, and Downton Abbey: A New Era.
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Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West was born on 15 October 1969 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire.
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Dominic West is the sixth of seven siblings born into a family of Irish descent; his maternal grandparents were born in Ireland, while his paternal grandmother was Irish-American.
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Dominic West's mother, Pauline Mary, was an actress, and his father, Thomas George Eagleton West, owned a plastics factory.
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Dominic West is the first cousin once removed of American politician Thomas Eagleton.
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Dominic West attended Eton College, and then following a gap year during which he spent four months working as a cattle herder in Argentina, he studied English literature at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1993.
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Dominic West graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1995.
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Dominic West was praised for the accuracy of his character's American accent.
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Dominic West starred as Lysander in the 1999 film version of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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In 2006 Dominic West played the Spartan politician Theron in 300 and made a guest appearance as an actor in a sketch in The Catherine Tate Show, alongside "Frankie Howerd impressionist".
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Dominic West played the disfigured supervillain Jigsaw in the 2008 film Marvel's Punisher: War Zone.
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Dominic West performed as "Dr West", the opening track on Eminem's 2009 album Relapse, as a doctor discharging Eminem from a rehab facility.
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Dominic West played the part over the phone in January 2009 while Eminem was recording it in a Miami studio.
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In December 2009, Dominic West starred as Hank in a radio adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's play The Hairy Ape for BBC Radio 3, was a guest presenter on the BBC show Have I Got News for You, and ended the year alongside Joan Rivers and Sarah Jessica Parker with an appearance on Graham Norton's New Year's Eve Show.
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In 2011, Dominic West appeared as a news presenter on the BBC period drama series The Hour.
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In 2012, Dominic West was offered the role of Mance Rayder in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones, but turned it down due to the amount of time he would have to spend away from his family.
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Dominic West starred as Noah Solloway on Showtime's series The Affair, which premiered October 2014.
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In 2018 it was reported that Dominic West was represented by Tavistock Wood Management.
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In 2019, Dominic West played the role of Jean Valjean in the BBC's adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables.
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Also in 2019, Dominic West appeared in Sky One's series Brassic, in the recurring role of Dr Chris Cox.
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In October 2020, Dominic West entered negotiations to play Charles, Prince of Wales in the final two seasons of The Crown.
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That same month, Dominic West joined the cast of the 2022 film Downton Abbey: A New Era.
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Dominic West took the title role in Simon Gray's classic comedy, Butley, playing at the Duchess Theatre in London from 1 June 2011.
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From mid December 2012 to January 2013, Dominic West starred as Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
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In 2009, Dominic West starred in a series of online films known as "The Carte Noire Readers".
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Dominic West is a supporter of care charity Helen's Trust in response to their assistance to his mother prior to her death.
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Dominic West trekked to the South Pole against Team UK and Team America.
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Alongside Harry, Skarsgard and several wounded soldiers, Dominic West successfully made it to the South Pole on 13 December 2013.
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Dominic West later rekindled his romance with Catherine FitzGerald, whom he had dated at university.