ACTOR

Dominic West

1969 - Today

Photo of Dominic West

Icon of person Dominic West

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 HBO's The Wire (2002–2008), Noah Solloway in Showtime's The Affair (2014–2019), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama nomination, Ebenezer Scrooge’s nephew Fred in A Christmas Carol (1999, with Patrick Stewart as Scrooge), and Charles, Prince of Wales, in the Netflix drama The Crown (2022–2023), the latter of which earned him nominations for another Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. West made his television debut in 1998 BBC medical drama Out of Hours before appearing in the television films A Christmas Carol (1999), 28 Days with Sandra Bullock in 2000 and Nicholas Nickleby (2001). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dominic West has received more than 13,397,562 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Dominic West is the 3,104th most popular actor (up from 3,357th in 2019), the 2,614th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,849th in 2019) and the 371st most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 13M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.59

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dominic West ranks 3,104 out of 13,578. Before him are Peter Jacobson, Esai Morales, Frankie Faison, Irm Hermann, Angelo Beolco, and Taika Waititi. After him are Vija Artmane, Sanford Meisner, Kit Harington, Peggy Ashcroft, Adam Driver, and Maite Perroni.

Most Popular Actors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Dominic West ranks 129. Before him are Sissel Kyrkjebø, Paul Adelstein, Beau Biden, Alexander Schallenberg, Manu Bennett, and Marc Forster. After him are Candy Dulfer, Thomas Jane, Vladimir Jugović, Richard Hammond, Uhm Jung-hwa, and Cesar Millan.

Others Born in 1969

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dominic West ranks 2,614 out of 8,785. Before him are Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1903), Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847), Henry Pottinger (1789), Ashley Cole (1980), George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946), and Austin Osman Spare (1886). After him are Thomas Arnold (1795), C. P. Snow (1905), Bill Ivy (1942), Quentin Blake (1932), Kit Harington (1986), and Peggy Ashcroft (1907).

Others born in United Kingdom

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Dominic West ranks 371. Before him are Edmund Gwenn (1877), Jon Finch (1942), Bob Anderson (1922), Flora Robson (1902), Vanessa Kirby (1988), and Ronald Pickup (1940). After him are Kit Harington (1986), Peggy Ashcroft (1907), Cedric Hardwicke (1893), Richard Armitage (1971), Kelly Reilly (1977), and Lesley-Anne Down (1954).

British born Actors

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous