Dominic West

Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West is an English actor director and musician He is best known for playing Jimmy McNulty in HBOs The Wire 20022008 Noah Solloway in Showtimes The Affair 20142019 the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Television Series Drama nomination Ebenezer Scrooges nephew Fred in A Christmas Carol 1999 with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge and Charles Prince of Wales in the Netflix drama The Crown 2022present West was born in Sheffield England in 1969 He is the sixth of seven children born to Irish parents He studied English literature at Trinity College Dublin and drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama West began his acting career in theater appearing in productions of Hamlet and Oedipus Rex He made his film debut in 1995 with a small role in the film The Boxer Wests breakthrough role came in 2002 when he was cast as Jimmy McNulty in the HBO series The Wire The Wire is considered one of the greatest television shows of all time and Wests performance as McNulty was critically acclaimed West has since starred in a number of other successful films and television shows including 300 The Hour The Affair and The Crown He is a versatile actor who is equally comfortable in both dramatic and comedic roles West is also a talented musician He plays the guitar and piano and he has released two albums of his own music