English actor Dominic West has an estimated net worth of $6 million. He’s famous for his look on The Wire, a drama show on HBO on which he played the part of Detective Jimmy McNulty. He’s an alumnus of Eton College and Trinity College in Dublin. He also attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he graduated in 1995. Since 2010, he’s been wed to Catherine Fitzgerald. He’s four kids named Martha, Dora, Senan and Francis. On television, he was lately seen on The Hour, Appropriate Adult, Children of the Tsunami, and Burton & Taylor.
Guildhall School of Music and Drama,Trinity College, Dublin Eton College
Nationality
British
Spouse
Catherine Fitzgerald (m. 2010)
Children
Martha West, Francis West, Dora West, Senan West
Parents
Moya West, George West
Nicknames
Dominic Gerard Fe West
Awards
Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama, British Academy Television Award for Best Actor, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film, Critics' Choice Television Award for Bes...
I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
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I'm a rather crude cook.
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I've always wanted to play more comic parts.
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I mean, I think women should be more indulgent of affairs. I really do. It's daft to kick someone out over a fling. Isn't it? Everyone should turn a blind eye to men's behavior between the ages of 40 and 50. Let it all blow over.
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My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
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I like to believe there are ghosts all over the place!
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Apparently it'll all settle down and they'll forget about it soon.
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Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.
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No, I don't think The Wire (2002) screwed up my career at all.
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I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch The Wire (2002). Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.
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If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.
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I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.
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Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.
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It would have been an interesting run if we hadn't gotten along! It was good casting, I suppose.
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For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!
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The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.
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People seem to think I'm Satan.
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I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.
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You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.
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If you turn on American TV, there's a huge choice of nothing you want to see and, unfortunately, I think that's the case here now as well. I love costume drama, no-one does it like the BBC - no-one has the money to do it, first of all and, secondly, Americans don't have the history to do it. So we do it brilliantly but if you talk to any BBC producers, they abhor the fact... they're dying to do The Wire (2002) and hate doing Cranford (2007) . I thought Cranford (2007) was incredible but we don't seem to be able to do contemporary stuff.
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[on Mona Lisa Smile (2003)] The movie didn't make much sense. We would be given new scenes to film out of the blue which, it transpired, had been written by Julia's agent, who was doubling as a producer. I don't know what anyone was doing there. No one seemed to enjoy it. Especially not Julia. She had just got married and just wanted to be off having sex with her husband. Trouble was, she had married the cameraman on the movie. You can't really relax in a sex scene when the husband is staring right at you.
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[on The Wire (2002)] The show provokes a kind of obsessive following. Those who love it kind of cherish the fact that it's not quite as world-renowned as The Sopranos (1999). It's like being in a secret club.
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I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people. It's interesting that I've been cast as a working-class cop [The Wire (2002)] because I doubt that would happen at home. The films I most enjoy in England are by Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, but it's very unlikely I would be cast in them; I've tried a few times, but I'm perceived as posh.
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I don't know why British actors are getting big parts in American TV shows. Maybe it's because we're cheap.
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Fact
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Dominic West portrayed late author George MacDonald Fraser's Victorian anti-hero Harry Flashman, the main character of Fraser's "Flashman" novels, at a 2014 auction of Fraser's library. West also stated at the time that he would like to see a new Flashman movie made for the new generation. The only previous movie, Royal Flash (1975) was not a success and was so disliked by Fraser that he would not allow another one to be made in his lifetime.
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He is a first cousin, once removed, of American politician Thomas Eagleton, who was briefly the 1972 Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States. Dominic's paternal great-grandparents, Thomas Francis Eagleton and Mary Theresa Hennelly (who had moved to Missouri from Ireland), were also the paternal grandparents of politician Eagleton.
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Appearing as 'Jan' in the play "Rock & Roll" at the Duke of York Theatre in London. [February 2007]
Dominic West's maternal grandparents were Irish and his paternal grandparents were English.and Irish.
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Attended Eton College, Berkshire. Also schooled there, though two years behind, was Band of Brothers (2001) and Life (2007) star Damian Lewis.
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Graduated from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1995.
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Once spent four months as a cattle herder in Argentina in 1988 trying to be "different." Afterwards he enrolled at Dublin's Trinity College, graduating in 1993 with a B.A. in English literature.
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Began appearing in community theatre at age 9.
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Was one of seven children - five girls, two boys - born to George and Moya West - his parents divorced in 1996.
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