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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


  • 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
  • John Carter
  • John Carter review by Mindyb from
    Rated - 2.5 stars Why oh why..? 23 March 2012
    ...ing, and the leading man, Taylor Kitcsh, oddly plastic. Surrounded as he was by Dominic West, Ciaran Hinds and James Purefoy, actors of some depth, he just did not convey J...   Read customer review

Dominic West - filmography


  • John Carter - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Ciaran Hinds,  Samantha Morton,  Ciarán Hinds
    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 stars out of 5 64% from 6,726 members
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  • Shakespeare's Sonnets (2012)
    Starring: Fiona Shaw,  Dominic West,  David Tennant
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Collection of performances of all of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets. Among the cast are Fiona Shaw, Sir Patrick Stewart, David Tennant, Dominic West, Stephen Fry and Simon Callow.
    5 stars out of 5 100% from 2 members
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  • John Carter on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Ciaran Hinds,  Samantha Morton,  Ciarán Hinds
    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 66% from 10,224 members
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  • What You Will on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Dominic West,  Zoe Tapper,  Oliver Dimsdale
    Director: Simon Reade
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    WHAT YOU WILL is a tragi-comedy drama shot as if it is a fly-on-the-wall documentary. Or as the Bristol Evening Post put it, "A sort of theatrical Spinal Tap that is joyous and anarchic". Co-produced with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Filter Theatre's extraordinary production of Shakespeare's ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 19 members
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  • John Carter - 3D 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 65% from 1,372 member
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  • Johnny English Reborn on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Dominic West,  Rosamund Pike,  Rowan Atkinson
    Director: Oliver Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the accidental secret agent who doesn't know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn. In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,077 members
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  • Appropriate Adult on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Michael J. Tait,  Emily Watson,  Benjamin Knox
    Director: Julian Jarrold
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    TV drama telling the story of Janet Leach, whose relationship with Fred West played a key role in the capture of his wife, Rosemary West. When serial killer Fred West (Dominic West) was arrested in 1994 his fragile mental condition led him to be interviewed by the police in the company of '..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 1,686 member
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  • 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 68% from 23,029 members
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  • The Awakening - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Imelda Staunton,  Dominic West,  Isaac Hempstead Wright
    Director: Nick Murphy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    Psychological/supernatural chiller from first time director Nick Murphy. In the aftermath of WWI, and still haunted by the death of her fiance, sceptic Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) sets out to debunk the many supernatural claims sweeping the country using rational and scientific means. When she'..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,571 members
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  • Johnny English Reborn - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Dominic West,  Rosamund Pike,  Rowan Atkinson
    Director: Oliver Parker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Rowan Atkinson returns to the role of the accidental secret agent who doesn't know fear or danger in the comedy spy-thriller Johnny English Reborn. In his latest adventure, the most unlikely intelligence officer in Her Majesty's Secret Service must stop a group of international assassins before ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,198 member
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  • Centurion on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Michael Fassbender,  Dominic West,  Olga Kurylenko
    Director: Neil Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    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 64% from 18,316 members
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  • Centurion - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Michael Fassbender,  Dominic West,  Olga Kurylenko
    Director: Neil Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    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 5,553 members
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  • The Wire - Season 5 (4 discs) on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Dominic West,  Lance Reddick,  Sonja Sohn
    Director: Ernest R. Dickerson,  Joe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The complete fifth and final season of the acclaimed crime drama series which follows drug and murder investigations in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a universe of subterfuge and surveillance, where easy distinctions between good ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 93% from 6,986 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 6,166 members
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  • 300 - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Tom Wisdom,  Rodrigo Santoro,  Vincent Regan
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Adapted from the book by Frank Miller, this is a modern retelling of the Battle Of Thermopylae of 480 BC, when the 100,000 strong invading Persian Army of King Xerxes was held back in a narrow mountain pass by 300 Spartans. King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) is given four days by Persia's King Xerxes (..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 10,151 members
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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 28,712 members
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  • Hannibal Rising - Blu-ray (2007)
    Starring: Rhys Ifans,  Dominic West,  Helena Lia Tachovska
    Director: Peter Webber
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Prequel charting the making of a maniac as the formative years of Hannibal Lecter - surely the most gruesome childhood in history - are recounted. 1941, Lithuania and the Lecter family, residents of Lecter Castle, live an idyllic life. Until the Nazi invasion of the Baltic turns everything upside ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1,431 member
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  • 300 on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Gerard Butler,  Lena Headey,  Andrew Pleavin
    Director: Zack Snyder
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Based on the epic graphic novel by Frank Miller, 300 is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 77,457 members
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  • Mona Lisa Smile on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Julia Stiles,  Juliet Stevenson,  Dominic West
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Drama set in 1953 in Wellesley College, a prestigious women's college in New England with a student population of young women from respectable, privileged families. On the whole the girls, products of a time when women's roles were strictly defined, show more interest in marrying well than in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 31,014 members
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  • Mona Lisa Smile - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Julia Stiles,  Juliet Stevenson,  Dominic West
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Drama set in 1953 in Wellesley College, a prestigious women's college in New England with a student population of young women from respectable, privileged families. On the whole the girls, products of a time when women's roles were strictly defined, show more interest in marrying well than in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 384 members
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  • The Wire - Season 2 (5 discs) on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Wood Harris,  Method Man,  Dominic West
    Director: Elodie Keene,  Ed Bianchi,  Steve Shill
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    4.5 stars out of 5 89% from 11,564 members
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  • Chicago - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones,  Dominic West,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones star in this Oscar-winning big screen adaptation of the popular Broadway show. In 1920s Chicago nightclub singer Velma Kelly (Zeta Jones) and aspiring starlet Roxie Hart (Zellweger) are both arrested on the same night for committing two different murders. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 1,165 member
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  • Chicago on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones,  Dominic West,  Renee Zellweger
    Director: Rob Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Everyone loves a legend--but in Chicago, there's only room for one. Velma Kelly burns in the spotlight as a nightclub sensation. When she shoots her philandering husband, she lands on Chicago's famed murderess row, retains Chicago's slickest lawyer, Billy Flynn, and becomes the center of the town's ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 24,777 members
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  • The Wire - Season 1 (5 discs) on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Wood Harris,  Clarke Peters,  Dominic West
    Director: Daniel Attias,  Brad Anderson
    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 81% from 20,930 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
    Rock music devotee Chris Cole (Mark Wahlberg) is the singer in a tribute band which plays the music of British heavy metal stars Steel Dragon. When the other band members get fed up with his obsessive perfectionism and give him the sack, Chris receives an offer to audition as the replacement for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 3,013 members
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  • 28 Days on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Steve Buscemi,  Sandra Bullock,  Dominic West
    Director: Betty Thomas
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Gwen Cummings is a successful New York writer living life in the fast lane and everyone's favorite 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 just ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,095 members
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  • True Blue on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Nicholas Rowe,  Brian McGovern,  Josh Lucas
    Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on the true story of the 1987 Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. Following the previous year's defeat by Cambridge, American Oxford student Rick Ross and Brit Donald Macdonald vow revenge. Oxford coach Daniel Topolski initiates a harsh training schedule for the team, only to face a rebellion from ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 371 members
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Dominic West facts

5 most recent films

John Carter - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Shakespeare's Sonnets - 5.0 stars
The Hour - Series 2 - Complete - 4.0 stars
John Carter - 3.5 stars
What You Will - 2.0 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

What You Will - 2.0 stars
The Gamblers - 3.5 stars
Shakespeare's Sonnets - 5.0 stars
Jackboots on Whitehall - 2.0 stars
Ten Minutes Older - The Trumpet / The Cello - 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
Michael Fassbender - 17 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Steve Shill - 12 times - show films
Ed Bianchi - 12 times - show films
Joe Chappelle - 11 times - show films
Marc Munden - 9 times - show films
Daniel Attias - 6 times - show films