Dominic West News

A SOUTH Devon actor has landed a role alongside one of the stars of an award-winning American TV crime show.

The Wire made a killing at the Crime Thriller awards, picking up two prizes including a best actor gong for star Dominic West.

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DOMINIC West has taken a mighty stride from TV's The Wire, in which he played gritty Baltimore cop McNulty, to the complex passions of 17th-century Spanish drama.

Kate Fleetwood stars in the Donmar Warehouse's 'Life Is a Dream,' from a new adaptation by Helen Edmundson of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's play.

London, Life Is A Dream Your rating Click on a star to rate Henry Hitchings's rating Reader rating Add your review Description: Helen Edmundson's version of Pedro Calderon De La Barca's drama, starring Dominic West, Rupert Evans and Sharon Small.

Dominic West has impressed critics with his performance in a West End play. The Wire actor treads the boards at London's Donmar Warehouse as lead character Seguismundo in the British version of Spanish play Life Is A Dream.

Wire creator David Simon introduces his new book about the television phemonenon that redefined the way we think about cop shows Click image to download an audio extract from The Wire: Truth Be Told, read by David Simon "We're building something here .

SOME of the best-known faces from The Wire, the American television drama series that has taken the world by storm, are expected in Glin next year when one of the series' stars, Dominic West, marries Catherine FitzGerald, daughter of the Knight of Glin and his wife, Olda.

So it may prove consoling to learn that at least somebody agrees with Grayling, namely Old Etonian Dominic West, who plays the tough-guy detective Jimmy McNulty in the series.

The daughter of The Wire star Dominic West will have her own taste of stardom on Sunday.

Michael K. Williams is outstanding as Omar, the gay stick-up specialist, in The Wire , a show that ain't done Baltimore proud.

Husband and wife stars Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly led guests on the red carpet for the premiere of Creation, which follows a key period in scientist Charles Darwin's life.

London, It's in the genes: daughter of Wire star lands Darwin film role By Louise Jury, Cheif Arts Correspondent Last updated at 10:40am on 11.09.09 Add your view The daughter of The Wire star Dominic West will get her own taste of stardom when she walks the red carpet for her film debut on Sunday.

For hardcore fans of The Wire , watching the show on telly is for kids smoking rather than injecting, as it were.

Photograph: Martin Argles After decades of heavy-handed messages warning that watching pirated films and TV shows is a criminal offence, a new anti- piracy campaign aims to win over the "Generation Y-pay?" of internet users by reminding them that legal downloading supports their favourite actors and programmes.

Down in the hole... Clarke Peters with Wendell Pierce and Dominic West in The Wire.

Detective James McNulty is at the heart of all that is good and bad in Baltimore.

A letter by the Mayor of Baltimore rebuking a senior Conservative for comparing the UK to the hit TV series The Wire was a fake by a Labour parliamentary hopeful and blogger, it has emerged.

Acting hunk Dominic West is swapping The Wire for the wireless, it was announced today.