His role as Sandra Bullock's egotistical, self-absorbed fiancé offering audiences a hilarious glimpse of the handsome actor's notable comic talents, actorDominicWest has since gone on to display his versatility in such notably diverse projects as the acclaimed HBO series The Wire and director Rob Marshall's hit musical Chicago.
Born into a family of seven children in Sheffield, England, West's father was the owner of a plastics manufacturing plant and his mother a homemaker with a taste for the theater.
Though he had previous acting experience in a few minor film roles, it was the late '90s that found West's career truly beginning to bloom.
DominicWest: I think there was an earlier draft, where I have a phone conversation with my ex-wife and it wasn’t a very interesting conversation.
DominicWest: Well, I was there for just the one of them, when we’re interrogating the special agent, and you do the scene and then you cut and that’s it.
DominicWest: It doesn’t bear thinking about… the Mayor of London said recently, “It’s not a question of if there’s a terrorist outrage, it’s a question of when.” So you do what you do to protect your children but, eventually, you have to trust that they’ll be okay.
DominicWest has appeared in movies with actors such as Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore, Sandra Bullock, and Patrick Stewart.
In July 2005, Dominic auditioned to be the new James Bond.
DominicWest: I think being British, you’re either a villain, a drunk or a homosexual, and usually, all three.
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West's portrayal of the photographer ensured that though few would approve of the victimizing nature of his livelihood, his humanity and likablity shone through.
While the role was really very small, West considered the opportunity to be in such a monumental film (an opportunity afforded him as he and star Ewan McGregor shared the same agent) as one not to be passed up.
Next, West essayed a man who is told his child never existed, and embraks on a harrowing investigation alongside similarly bereft parent Julianne Moore in the paranormal thriller "The Forgetten" (2004).
English born, DominicWest has a wide-range of talents which have helped to propel him into both the American film and television industries.
More recently, Dominic could be seen starring with Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston in Warner Brothers' Rockstar and opposite Sandra Bullock in Betty Thomas's 28 Days.
West's passion for the classic's inspired him to return to the stage in 2001 starring in Noel Coward's Broadway play, A Design for Living with Alan Cummings.
DominicWest is English born and most recently starred in the Oscar®-winning film adaptation of Chicago co-starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere.
Since his motion picture debut in 1992's Richard III with Ian McKellen, West has starred opposite some of the industry's finest actors, including Sir Anthony Hopkins in Surviving Picasso, Michelle Pfeiffer and Kevin Kline in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Toni Collette in Diana and Me.
West's passion for the classics inspired him to return to the stage in 2001 to star in Noel Coward's "Design for Living" with Alan Cumming.
Has brown hair and brown eyes Was one of seven children - five girls, two boys - born to George & Moya West - his parents divorced in 1996 His father owned a plastics-manufacturing plant and his mother was a homemaker who loved the theater.
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In chronicling a multi-generational family business dealing illegal drugs and the efforts of the Baltimore police to curb their trade, this series draws parallels between these organizations and...
Emma Fielding and DominicWest are set to headline Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll.
As previously reported, a six-week extension to the original engagement was announced to take the run to 5 November, for which David Calder joined the cast to replace Brian Cox.
The play spans the years from 1968 to 1990 from the double perspective of Prague, where a rock ‘n’ roll band comes to symbolise resistance to the Communist regime, and Cambridge where love and death are shaping the lives of three generations in the family of a Marxist philosopher.
A dark-haired, well-built and handsome performer with a charming comedic flair that marked him as a uniquely appealing actor with certain leading man potential, British actorDominicWest spent the 1990s honing his trade with London stage work, starring turns in small British features and supporting parts in larger-scale productions.
He made his big screen debut in 1995's "Wavelength", a drama set at prestigious Oxford University, a setting revisited by the actor in the following year's "True Blue", based on the school's famed 1987 boat race.
West starred as rowing club captain Donald MacDonald in the drama, and made the most of a somewhat blandly written role.
DominicWest, Sonja Sohn, Wood Harris, Larry Gilliard Jr.
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DominicWest was born in 1969 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK to George and Moya West, he is one of seven children.
West began acting at the age of nine.
But in 1988 at the age of nineteen he went to Argentina and spent four months cattle herding, he followed that act by returning to the UK and attending Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, where he obtained a BA in English literature, graduating in 1993.
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Emma Fielding and DominicWest are set to replace Sinead Cusack and Rufus Sewell in the London production of Tom Stoppard's Rock - n' Roll beginning November 14.
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West made his debut in 1991 in a short called 3 Joes.
His other film appearances include True Blue, Chicago and Mona Lisa Smile, and most notably playing Jimmy McNulty on the American television police drama The Wire.
Filmed in Baltimore, the series was set in motion when a local judge, disgusted with the lack of progress in the war on drugs, ordered the city's Narcotics and Homicide divisions to join forces in their efforts to solve a string of murders which might have been drug-related.
The "good guys" included homicide detectives Jimmy McNulty (DominicWest) and Bunk Moreland (Wendell Pierce) and narcotics detectives Shakima Greggs (Sonja Sohn), Cedric Daniels (Lance Reddick), Ellis Carver (Seth Gilliam), and Herc Hauk (Domenick Lombardazzi).
To say that these law officers did not always see eye to eye would be an understatement, but their jealous squabbles were minor compared to the ego-driven flare-ups within the bad guys' camp -- specifically the members of the Franklin Towers drug dealing operation, led by Avon Barksdale (Wood Harris) and his contentious relatives.
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