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  • West's serial killer drama wins TV award - 3 February 2012
    -Dominic West's controversial TV drama about serial killer Fred West has picked up a top prize at The Broadcast Awards.-The actor sparked outrage from victims' relatives after signing up to portray the monster in TV movie Appropriate Adult, which dramatises West's arr


  • West eyeing Golden Globes glory - 22 December 2011
    -Dominic West is gunning for Golden Globes glory next month (Jan12) because he is "yet to win an award" during his lengthy career.-The actor has been nominated for Best Performance in a Miniseries or Television Film for his role in drama The Hour.- He is going head-t


  • West will never play a serial killer again - 23 October 2011
    -Dominic West has vowed never to play a serial killer again because he found his role as Fred West to be "all-consuming" and "soul destroying".-The Wire star portrayed the notorious murderer in TV movie Appropriate Adult, which centred around the interviews Fred West

Dominic West - what members say


  • 28 Days
  • 28 Days review by from West Midlands
    Rated - 5.0 stars 28 days to get a life 23 January 2007
    ...a Bullock) is an out-going, drinking party lass, and with her boyfriend Jasper (Dominic West), they think that to have fun they must be the life and soul of the party. So t...   Read customer review
  • The Wire - Season 1
  • The Wire - Season 1 review by from durham
    Rated - 5.0 stars quite possibly the best cop show you probably never seen 14 April 2005
    ...that covers one story over thirteen episodes. Detective Jimmy McNulty - our own Dominic West sprouting a US accent - is forced into tracking down drug dealers in baltimore...   Read customer review
  • The Wire - Season 4
  • The Wire - Season 4 review by A customer from London
    Rated - 1.0 stars The most tedious show ever 19 August 2008
    ...t wiith his departure and that of a few other's we've been left with the wooden Dominic West and the other equally lifeless cast members. Why anyone would watch this in a w...   Read customer review

Dominic West - filmography


  • John Carter (2012)
    Starring: Ciaran Hinds,  Taylor Kitsch,  Lynn Collins
    Director: Andrew Stanton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 176 members
    Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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  • John Carter - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Ciaran Hinds,  Taylor Kitsch,  Lynn Collins
    Director: Andrew Stanton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 23 members
    Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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  • Johnny English Reborn (2011)
    Starring: Rowan Atkinson,  Rosamund Pike,  Dominic West
    Director: Oliver Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a team of ruthless assassins plot to kill the Chinese premier, the only person who can stop them from plunging the world into total chaos is bumbling secret agent Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) in this sequel featuring Gillian Anderson, Dominic West, and Rosamund Pike. Somewhere deep in Asia, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 576 members
    Not available for rental
  • The Awakening on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Rebecca Hall,  Dominic West,  Imelda Staunton
    Director: Nick Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Starring Dominic West (The Wire, 300), Rebecca Hall (The Town) and Oscar®-nominee Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), THE AWAKENING is the chilling new supernatural thriller from Nick Murphy. In post-World War I England in 1921, an author and paranormal skeptic (Hall) is invited to a countryside ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 5,609 members
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  • Appropriate Adult on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Dominic West,  Emily Watson,  Samuel Roukin
    Director: Julian Jarrold
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Starring Dominic West and Emily Watson this is the story of Fred & Rosemary West told through Janet Leach (the Appropriate Adult). Janet Leach was an ordinary housewife who volunteered to help an illiterate prisoner. The man was Britain's worst serial sex killer and he confessed his darkest secrets ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,058 member
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  • The Awakening - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Rebecca Hall,  Dominic West,  Imelda Staunton
    Director: Nick Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Nick Murphy's gothic horror feature-debut THE AWAKENING is set in the post-World War I England of 1921 - not long after the devastating Spanish Flu outbreak; a time in which people were increasingly turning to the possibility of supernatural realms for comfort. Rebecca Hall (THE TOWN) stars as ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,561 members
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  • Johnny English Reborn - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Rowan Atkinson,  Rosamund Pike,  Dominic West
    Director: Oliver Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a team of ruthless assassins plot to kill the Chinese premier, the only person who can stop them from plunging the world into total chaos is bumbling secret agent Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) in this sequel featuring Gillian Anderson, Dominic West, and Rosamund Pike. Somewhere deep in Asia, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 68% from 84 members
    Not available for rental
  • The Hour - Blu-ray (2 discs) (2011)
    Starring: Romola Garai,  Dominic West,  Ben Whishaw
    Director: Coky Giedroyc,  Harry Bradbeer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Romola Garai, Dominic West and Ben Whishaw star in The Hour, a thrilling six-part drama which takes viewers behind the scenes of the launch of a topical news programme in London 1956, written and created by Bafta award-winning Abi Morgan. With a highly competitive, sharp-witted and passionate love ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 175 members
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  • Centurion on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Michael Fassbender,  Dominic West,  Olga Kurylenko
    Director: Neil Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 11,995 members
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  • Centurion - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Michael Fassbender,  Dominic West,  Olga Kurylenko
    Director: Neil Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,820 members
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  • Punisher - War Zone on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ray Stevenson,  Dominic West,  Julie Benz
    Director: Lexi Alexander
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias--Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Force" hot on his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,882 members
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  • The Wire - Season 5 (4 discs) on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Sonja Sohn,  Dominic West,  Lance Reddick
    Director: Ernest R. Dickerson,  Joe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 the men and women on either side of the battle. Drawing similarities between those people who society ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 93% from 6,336 members
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  • 300 - HD (2007)
    Starring: Gerard Butler,  Lena Headey,  Andrew Pleavin
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, 300 takes over the screen like an invading horde. With all the gushing blood of a horror movie and the scope of a classic epic, the second film from Zack Snyder (who helmed the 2004 remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD) is an impressive visual ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 1,630 member
    Not currently released
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  • 300 - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Gerard Butler,  Lena Headey,  Andrew Pleavin
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, 300 takes over the screen like an invading horde. With all the gushing blood of a horror movie and the scope of a classic epic, the second film from Zack Snyder (who helmed the 2004 remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD) is an impressive visual ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 9,452 members
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  • Hannibal Rising - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Gaspard Ulliel,  Rhys Ifans,  Helena Lia Tachovska
    Director: Peter Webber
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Long before a certain cannibal sipped his first Chianti or dined on his first human liver, a young boy named Hannibal Lecter received a stark lesson in mortality as war raged around him. But of all the horrors he witnessed growing up in Lithuania, none could have prepared him for the brutal murder ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,310 member
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  • Hannibal Rising on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Gaspard Ulliel,  Rhys Ifans,  Helena Lia Tachovska
    Director: Peter Webber
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Based on Thomas Harris' upcoming new book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lecter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in Russia before his capture by FBI agent Will Graham in Red Dragon.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 28,110 members
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  • 300 on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Gerard Butler,  Lena Headey,  Andrew Pleavin
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, 300 takes over the screen like an invading horde. With all the gushing blood of a horror movie and the scope of a classic epic, the second film from Zack Snyder (who helmed the 2004 remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD) is an impressive visual ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 74,286 members
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  • Mona Lisa Smile on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Kirsten Dunst,  Julia Stiles
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. Julia Roberts leads an impressive cast of top young actresses including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. Roberts ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 30,647 members
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  • Mona Lisa Smile - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Kirsten Dunst,  Julia Stiles
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Mike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. Julia Roberts leads an impressive cast of top young actresses including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. Roberts ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 348 members
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  • Chicago on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones,  Dominic West,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 23,984 members
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  • Chicago - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones,  Dominic West,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This Hollywood adaptation of the classic Broadway musical sparkles with glamour and reverberates with the energy of good, old-fashioned song and dance. As the film leaps into its first riveting act, Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), one half of the famous number she performs with her sister, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,081 member
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  • The Wire - Season 1 (5 discs) on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Dominic West,  Sonja Sohn,  John Doman
    Director: Brad Anderson,  Daniel Attias
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    From David Simon, creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series 'The Corner', this unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 19,038 members
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  • Rock Star on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Mark Wahlberg,  Jennifer Aniston,  Jason Flemyng
    Director: Stephen Herek
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    If you've ever indulged a rock & roll fantasy, Rock Star will give you the vicarious thrill of seeing it come to life. Chris Cole always wanted to be a rock star and his girlfriend thinks he can make it to the top. He still lives with his parents, when he is not fronting a tribute band, but one day ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,487 members
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  • 28 Days on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Sandra Bullock,  Dominic West,  Viggo Mortensen
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gwen Cummings is a successful New York writer living life in the fast lane and everyone's favourite party girl. She shares this roller-coaster lifestyle of hopping from dance club to bar to hangover with boyfriend Jasper-handsome, magnetic and equally attracted to life on the wild side. Life is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,921 members
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  • True Blue on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Johan Leysen,  Edward Atterton,  Jonathan Cake
    Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on a true story, TRUE BLUE is the gripping tale of the infamous 1987 Oxford University boat race mutiny. When Oxford loses to Cambridge in 1986, it means an end to their 11-year championship boat race reign. Unfortunately, Oxford's obsessive desire to regain their title the following year ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 337 members
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Dominic West facts

5 most recent films

John Carter - 3.5 stars
John Carter - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Johnny English Reborn - 3.5 stars
Appropriate Adult - E01 - 4.5 stars
The Awakening - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Wire - Season 4 - 4.5 stars
The Wire - Season 5 - 4.5 stars
The Wire - Season 3 - 4.5 stars
The Wire - Season 2 - 4.5 stars
The Wire - Season 1 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Gamblers - 3.5 stars
John Carter - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Jackboots on Whitehall - 2.0 stars
Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet / The Cello - 3.0 stars
Punisher - War Zone - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Idris Elba - 24 times - show films
Sonja Sohn - 23 times - show films
Wood Harris - 18 times - show films
Lance Reddick - 17 times - show films
Wendell Pierce - 12 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ed Bianchi - 12 times - show films
Steve Shill - 12 times - show films
Joe Chappelle - 11 times - show films
Ernest Dic - 6 times - show films
Elodie Keene - 6 times - show films