Dominic West

Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West (born 15 October 1969) is an English actor, musician, and director. He is known for playing Jimmy McNulty in 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. 2Early lifeEdit West was born and brought up in Sheffield, the sixth of seven siblings (five girls and two boys) in a Roman Catholic family, largely of Irish descent. His mother, Pauline Mary "Moya" (née Cleary), was an actress, and his father, Thomas George Eagleton West, owned a plastics factory. West attended Eton College and Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1995. 2CareerEdit 3Film/TVEdit West's screen appearances include True Blue, Chicago, Richard III, and Mona Lisa Smile. His most notable television role has been as the American police detective Jimmy McNulty on the HBO television police drama The Wire. West was praised for the accuracy of his character's American accen