Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West (born 15 October 1969) is an English actor, director and musician. He is best known for playing Jimmy McNulty in The Wire (2002–2008) and for playing Noah Solloway in The Affair (2014–), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. He has won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor at the 2012 British Academy Television Awards for portraying serial killer Fred West (no relation) in Appropriate Adult (2011).\n', '

His film credits include Chicago (2002), 300 (2007), Punisher: War Zone (2008), John Carter (2012), and The Square (2017).\n', '

Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West was born on 15 October 1969 in Sheffield, where he was raised. He is the sixth of seven siblings (five girls and two boys) born into a Roman Catholic family, largely of Irish descent. His mother, Pauline Mary "Moya" (née Cleary), was an actress, and his father, Thomas George Eagleton West, owned a plastics factory. West attended Eton College and Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1995.\n', '

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