Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West is an English actor, director, and musician. He is best known for playing Jimmy McNulty in
The Wire (2002–2008) and Noah Solloway in
The Affair (2014–2019), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. He won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor at the 2012 British Academy Television Awards for portraying serial killer Fred West in
Appropriate Adult (2011), and he played Jean Valjean in the 2018 BBC miniseries
Les Misérables. His film credits include
Chicago (2002),
300 (2007),
Punisher: War Zone (2008),
John Carter (2012),
The Square (2017), and
Colette (2018). West now plays the role of Dr Chris Cox in the Sky One series
Brassic.