---
name: "Dominic West"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dominic-west"
fi1m_id: "dominic-west"
imdb_id: "nm0922035"
tmdb_id: 17287
wikidata_id: "Q313020"
roles: ["Actor","Director"]
born: "15 October 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 17
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 16
updated: "2026-10-07T20:07:46.635097+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dominic West

## Identity

Dominic West

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dominic-west
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dominic-west
- **IMDb ID:** nm0922035
- **TMDB ID:** 17287
- **Wikidata ID:** Q313020
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_West, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313020, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922035/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17287

Actor and director. Born 15 October 1969 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Director
- **Born:** 15 October 1969, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 1997–present
- **Also known as:** Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 17: 16 acting, 1 directing
- **Frequently works with:** [Imelda Staunton](https://film.one/person/imelda-staunton.md), [Bill Nighy](https://film.one/person/bill-nighy.md), [George MacKay](https://film.one/person/george-mackay.md), [Julian Jarrold](https://film.one/person/julian-jarrold.md)
- **BAFTA Television Awards:** 1 BAFTA (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as actor, over 16 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 57 (2), 2000s 74 (4), 2010s 74 (8), 2020s 64 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 67 to 65 across 12 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 8 at 60–79, 4 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 3 of 12 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 12, Comedy 6, Crime 5, Adventure 4, Action 3, Animation 2
- **Screen time:** 19 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3,375m across 9 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_West, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q313020, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922035/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17287

## Streaming the US now

- **Peacock:** [*Appropriate Adult*](https://film.one/tv/appropriate-adult.md) (84), [*Brassic*](https://film.one/tv/brassic.md) (76)
- **Paramount+:** [*Chicago*](https://film.one/film/chicago.md) (73), [*300*](https://film.one/film/300.md) (52)
- **HBO Max:** [*The Wire*](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md) (90)
- **Netflix:** [*The Crown*](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md) (78)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Hour*](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md) (70)
- **Disney+:** [*Finding Dory*](https://film.one/film/finding-dory.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Dominic West

> West's men are the handsomest at the table and know it, and the performance is in what they do with the knowledge. He is at his best, in *The Wire* and *The Devil's Whore*, when someone opposite him refuses to be impressed.

Jimmy McNulty is right about the case and wrong about almost everything else, and Dominic West plays him so that both facts sit in the same face. He is the loudest man in the Baltimore homicide unit of *The Wire* (2002), a Sheffield-born actor holding a local accent across five seasons, and the programme's great trick is to give him all that force and then decline to arrange itself around him. Lance Reddick's Daniels and Sonja Sohn's Greggs have their own pressures, and McNulty has to argue with them like anyone else. West is better for it. A lesser series would have let him win every scene, and he would have been duller.

The career since has been mostly British and mostly in period. He also directed an episode of *The Wire*, and has kept a theatre career going alongside the screen work. There is a long run of men in good suits or good armour: Oliver Cromwell in *The Devil's Whore* (2008), Hector Madden in *The Hour* (2011), Fred West in *Appropriate Adult* (2011), Jonathan in *Pride* (2014), Jean Valjean in *Les Misérables* (2018), Prince Charles in *The Crown* (2022). What the parts have in common is the type more than the era: charismatic men with a flaw the script means to find, placed in casts large enough to find it.

Hector Madden is the type at its purest. West plays the presenter of *The Hour* as a man who knows exactly how he looks in a suit and is beginning to suspect it is all he has, and Abi Morgan's newsroom gives him Ben Whishaw and Romola Garai to be unimpressed by him. What surprised us in *The Devil's Whore* was how completely he could put the charm away. His Cromwell is plain and heavy and without a flourish, a performance that does nothing to be liked, and when he stands face to face with Peter Capaldi's small, courteous, completely certain Charles I it is the best thing in the series. We had not thought he could be that still.

*The Crown* asks for the opposite: a particular man rather than a type. The voice and the hands are precise, and the question that hung over the casting, that he is a good deal handsomer than his subject, is one he raised first. "I said, 'You've got the wrong guy, I don't look anything like him,'" he has said of being offered the part. The programme around him is solemn and its scenes often drag, and in *Pride* he is one of a large cast doing the film's uplifting work between them. Neither is his vehicle; in both he is good company.

Start with *The Wire*, which we would recommend to people who avoid police dramas, then go to *The Devil's Whore* for the Cromwell. When the next part is announced, look at who is cast opposite him. West is at his best with a director who casts someone opposite him who does not care how he looks in a suit.

## Biography

Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West is an English actor, director, producer and musician. He was born on 15 October 1969 in Sheffield, Yorkshire. He studied English literature at Trinity College Dublin and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 1995.

West is best known for his role as Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO series *The Wire* (2002–2008), in which he also directed the episode 'Took' (2008). His other television work includes Noah Solloway in *The Affair* (2014–2019), Charles, Prince of Wales in *The Crown* (2022–2023), and the title role in the BBC miniseries *Les Misérables* (2018). He received a BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor for playing Fred West in *Appropriate Adult* (2011).

His film credits include *Richard III* (1995), *Chicago* (2002), *300* (2007), *Johnny English Reborn* (2011), *John Carter* (2012), *Money Monster* (2016) and *Tomb Raider* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (17)

### Performed in (16) — the average rests on these

- *& Sons* (2026), Fi1m 58, as Rainer — [page](https://film.one/film/and-sons.md)
- *War* (2026), Fi1m 74, as Morgan Henderson — [page](https://film.one/tv/war.md)
- *Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale* (2025), Fi1m 61, as Guy Dexter — [page](https://film.one/film/downton-abbey-the-grand-finale.md)
- *Brassic* (2019), Fi1m 76, as Dr. Chris Coxley — [page](https://film.one/tv/brassic.md)
- *Finding Dory* (2016), Fi1m 68, as Rudder (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/finding-dory.md)
- *The Crown* (2016), Fi1m 78, as Prince Charles — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)
- *Pride* (2014), Fi1m 82, as Jonathan — [page](https://film.one/film/pride.md)
- *Appropriate Adult* (2011), Fi1m 84, as Fred West — [page](https://film.one/tv/appropriate-adult.md)
- *Arthur Christmas* (2011), Fi1m 82, as Lead Elf (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/arthur-christmas.md)
- *Johnny English Reborn* (2011), Fi1m 53, as Ambrose — [page](https://film.one/film/johnny-english-reborn.md)
- *The Hour* (2011), Fi1m 70, as Hector Madden — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md)
- *The Devil's Whore* (2008), Fi1m 80, as Oliver Cromwell — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-devils-whore.md)
- *300* (2007), Fi1m 52, as Theron — [page](https://film.one/film/300.md)
- *Chicago* (2002), Fi1m 73, as Fred Casely — [page](https://film.one/film/chicago.md)
- *Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace* (1999), Fi1m 52, as Palace Guard — [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace.md)
- *Spice World* (1997), Fi1m 62, as Photographer — [page](https://film.one/film/spice-world.md)

### Directed (1)

- *The Wire* (2002), Fi1m 90, as Jimmy McNulty — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md)

## Complete filmography (79)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Call Me Queen* (2026), as Warren
- *War* (2026), series, as Morgan Henderson — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/war.md)
- *& Sons* (2026), as Rainer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/and-sons.md)
- *Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale* (2025), as Guy Dexter — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/downton-abbey-the-grand-finale.md)
- *The Agency* (2024), series, as CIA Director
- *SAS Rogue Heroes* (2022), series, as Dudley Wrangel Clarke
- *Downton Abbey: A New Era* (2022), as Guy Dexter
- *The Pursuit of Love* (2021), series, as Uncle Matthew
- *Stateless* (2020), series, as Gordon Masters
- *Gauguin: A Dangerous Life* (2019), as Voice of Paul Gauguin
- *Gauguin from the National Gallery, London* (2019), as Narrator
- *Brassic* (2019), series, as Dr. Chris Coxley — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/brassic.md)
- *Les Misérables* (2018), series, as Jean Valjean · Executive Producer
- *After 82* (2018), as Narrator (voice)
- *Colette* (2018), as Willy
- *Tomb Raider* (2018), as Richard Croft
- *The Finish Line* (2017), as Paul
- *Five Star Fouad* (2017), as Gary
- *Revolting Rhymes* (2017), as Wolf (voice)
- *The Square* (2017), as Julian
- *A Funny Thing Happened to Kelly and Ted* (2017), as Ted
- *Revolting Rhymes* (2016), series, as Wolf
- *Marine Life Interviews* (2016), as Rudder (voice)
- *The Crown* (2016), series, as Prince Charles — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)
- *The Tale of Thomas Burberry* (2016), as Ernest Shackleton
- *Finding Dory* (2016), as Rudder (voice) — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/finding-dory.md)
- *Genius* (2016), as Ernest Hemingway
- *Money Monster* (2016), as Walt Camby
- *National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses* (2016), as Le Vicomte de Valmont
- *The Day They Dropped The Bomb* (2015), as Narrator (Voice)
- *Offshore Incorporated* (2015), as Narrator
- *Testament of Youth* (2015), as Mr. Brittain
- *The Affair* (2014), series, as Noah Solloway
- *Pride* (2014), as Jonathan — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/pride.md)
- *The Girl with the Mechanical Maiden* (2013), as Inventor
- *Burton and Taylor* (2013), as Richard Burton
- *What You Will* (2012), Actor
- *Shakespeare's Sonnets* (2012), Actor
- *Children of the Tsunami* (2012), as Narrator (voice)
- *John Carter* (2012), as Sab Than
- *Arthur Christmas* (2011), as Lead Elf (voice) — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/arthur-christmas.md)
- *Johnny English Reborn* (2011), as Ambrose — Fi1m 53, [page](https://film.one/film/johnny-english-reborn.md)
- *Appropriate Adult* (2011), series, as Fred West — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/appropriate-adult.md)
- *The Awakening* (2011), as Robert Mallory
- *The Hour* (2011), series, as Hector Madden — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-hour.md)
- *Jackboots on Whitehall* (2010), as Fiske (voice)
- *Centurion* (2010), as General Titus Flavius Virilus
- *From Time to Time* (2009), as Caxton
- *Breaking the Mould* (2009), as Howard Florey
- *Punisher: War Zone* (2008), as Billy "The Beaut" Russoti / Jigsaw
- *The Devil's Whore* (2008), series, as Oliver Cromwell — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-devils-whore.md)
- *2000: Bunk and McNulty* (2007), as Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty
- *300* (2007), as Theron — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/300.md)
- *Hannibal Rising* (2007), as Inspector Popil
- *Stingray* (2006), as Luther
- *The Forgotten* (2004), as Ash Correll
- *Mona Lisa Smile* (2003), as Bill Dunbar
- *Chicago* (2002), as Fred Casely — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/chicago.md)
- *Ten Minutes Older: The Cello* (2002), as Young Man (segment "About Time 2")
- *The Wire* (2002), series, as Jimmy McNulty · Director — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md)
- *Rock Star* (2001), as Kirk Cuddy
- *28 Days* (2000), as Jasper
- *A Christmas Carol* (1999), as Fred
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1999), as Lysander
- *Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace* (1999), as Palace Guard — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace.md)
- *Out of Hours* (1998), series, as Dr. Paul Featherstone
- *Spice World* (1997), as Photographer — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/spice-world.md)
- *Diana & Me* (1997), as Rob Naylor
- *The Gambler* (1997), as Alexei
- *True Blue* (1996), as Donald MacDonald
- *Surviving Picasso* (1996), as Paulo Picasso
- *E=MC²* (1996), as Spike
- *Richard III* (1995), as The Earl of Richmond
- *3 Joes* (1991), Actor
- *Monstrous Beauty*, as King Charles II
- *The Custom of the Country*, Actor
- *The Man Who Stole Portugal*, Actor
- *Wind of Change*, as Doc McGhee
- *Untitled Roald Dahl Series*, series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Dominic West](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-23a415d593f0.jpg) Dominic West — Ian Smith from London, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Dominic_West_%286577113511%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Keira Knightley, Wash Westmoreland, Dominic West, Gary Michael Walters, Elizabeth Karlsen and Pamela Koffler (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-14721f4af14a.jpg) Keira Knightley, Wash Westmoreland, Dominic West, Gary Michael Walters, Elizabeth Karlsen and Pamela Koffler (2018) — https://www.flickr.com/photos/punktoad/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/%22Collette%2C%22_Sundance_2018%2C_Park_City_UT_%2832562467737%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![President of the festival Pierre Lescure, actors Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, producer Jodie Foster, actors Jack O'Connell, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and  (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-437db18f2360.jpg) President of the festival Pierre Lescure, actors Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, producer Jodie Foster, actors Jack O'Connell, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and  (2016) — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Cannes_127_%2827501348464%29.jpg/1280px-Cannes_127_%2827501348464%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![President of the festival Pierre Lescure, actors Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, producer Jodie Foster, actors Jack O'Connell, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and  (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-eb6f96abc55f.jpg) President of the festival Pierre Lescure, actors Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, producer Jodie Foster, actors Jack O'Connell, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and  (2016) — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Cannes_128_%2828115900615%29.jpg/1280px-Cannes_128_%2828115900615%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dominic West](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-eaa6886982b9.jpg) Dominic West — Image via TMDB
- ![Dominic West](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-e069a66614ce.jpg) Dominic West — Image via TMDB
- ![Dominic West](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-f69abcbf1d5e.jpg) Dominic West — Image via TMDB
- ![Where's George? Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, Jodie Foster, Jack O'Connell, Julia Roberts, and Amal Clooney at the world premiere of Money Monster, 2016 Cannes](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-09ae72c7329a.jpg) Where's George? Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, Jodie Foster, Jack O'Connell, Julia Roberts, and Amal Clooney at the world premiere of Money Monster, 2016 Cannes — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Cannes_129_%2828013389372%29.jpg/1280px-Cannes_129_%2828013389372%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Julia Roberts, Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, Jodie Foster, Jack O'Connell, George Clooney, Amal Clooney at the world premiere of Money Monster, 2016 Cannes Fil](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-d5dc0e8d2475.jpg) Julia Roberts, Dominic West, Caitriona Balfe, Jodie Foster, Jack O'Connell, George Clooney, Amal Clooney at the world premiere of Money Monster, 2016 Cannes Fil — GabboT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Cannes_132_%2828115934725%29.jpg/1280px-Cannes_132_%2828115934725%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dominic West](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-89043afead92.jpg) Dominic West — Image via TMDB
- ![Dominic West](https://film.one/media/person/60916/gallery-ec8945c562ed.jpg) Dominic West — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### BAFTA Television Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 2014: Best Actor (nominated), for *Burton & Taylor*
- 2012: Best Actor (won), for *Appropriate Adult*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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