Biography
Hailing from the stage and screen of his native England, actor Dominic West made a name in the United States playing hard-drinking, anti-authoritarian homicide detective, Jimmy McNulty, on the gritty television crime drama, "The Wire" (HBO, 2002-08). Prior to that critically acclaimed role, West appeared in films like "Richard III" (1995), "Surviving Picasso" (1996) and "The Gambler" (1998). But it was his five years on "The Wire" that perhaps …
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Career Milestones
2012 | Co-starred with Taylor Kitsch in sci-fi Western "John Carter" | |
2011 | Cast opposite Rowan Atkinson in the comedy feature "Johnny English Reborn" | |
2011 | Landed lead role as a television news reporter on the BBC espionage series "The Hour" | |
2010 | Co-starred with Michael Fassbender in the action feature "Centurion" | |
2008 | Cast in the British Civil War miniseries "The Devil's Whore" (Channel 4) | |
2008 | Starred in "Punisher: War Zone" | |
2007 | Starred in the crime thriller "Hannibal Rising," about the early years of Hannibal Lecter | |
2007 | Cast in Zack Snyder's "300," an adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel | |
2004 | Starred opposite Julianne Moore in the thriller "The Forgotten" | |
2003 | Played the love interest to Julia Roberts character in "Mona Lisa Smile" | |
2002 | Co-starred with an ensemble cast on HBO's critically acclaimed urban drama "The Wire" | |
2001 | Co-starred with Alan Cumming and Jennifer Ehle in the Broadway revival of Noel Coward's "Design for Living" | |
2001 | Co-starred alongside Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston in the comedy "Rock Star", playing a guitarist for a popular hard rock band | |
2000 | Was featured as the hard partying British boyfriend of out-of-control writer Gwen (Sandra Bullock) in the rehab-set comedy/drama "28 Days" | |
1999 | Played Scrooge's nephew Fred in the TNT adaptation of "A Christmas Carol", starring Patrick Stewart | |
1999 | Spent five months (August to December) in the London production of "De La Guarda" | |
1999 | Had a small, one-line role as a palace guard in the blockbuster prequel "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" | |
1999 | Played Lysander, lover of Hermia (Anna Friel) and rival of Demetrius (Christian Bale), in "William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream" | |
1998 | Had a cameo role as a photographer in the mockumentary "Spice World" | |
1997 | Co-starred with Toni Collette as an ambitious British paparazzo in the Australian romantic comedy "Diana & Me" | |
1997 | Starred alongside Polly Walker in the inside-the-novel portions of the British film "The Gambler", chronicling Dostoyevsky's writing of the titular classic | |
1997 | Starred in the Peter Hall-directed productions of "Cloud Nine" and "The Seagull" at London's Old Vic | |
1996 | Played Paulo Picasso in Merchant-Ivory's "Surviving Picasso" | |
1996 | Starred as team president Donald MacDonald, in the Oxford University 1987 boat race-themed drama "True Blue" | |
1996 | Featured in the film adaptation of "Richard III", starring Ian McKellen | |
1995 | Acted on stage in England at the Almeida Theatre in Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars" | |
1995 | Made big screen debut in the Oxford University-set British drama "Wavelength" | |
| Began acting in amateur stage productions as a child because his mother and oldest sister were involved in local amateur theatricals | ||
Awards
2011 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television in The Hour |
2003 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in Chicago |