By Nicole Bernard
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
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), and Nicholas Nickleby (2001). His breakthrough came with the role of Detective Jimmy McNulty in the HBO series The Wire (2002–2008). He then starred in BBC series The Hour (2011–2012) earning a Golden Globe Award nomination. He received a BAFTA Award for his performance as the serial killer Fred West in the ITV drama Appropriate Adult (2011) and a nomination for his portrayal as Richard Burton in BBC Four‘s Burton & Taylor (2013). He played Jean Valjean in the 2018 BBC miniseries Les Misérables. He has since starred in the Netflix series Stateless (2020), and the Amazon Studios The Pursuit of Love (2021). West is currently playing the role of Dr Chris Cox in the Sky One series Brassic (2019–present).
His film debut came with his portrayal of Henry, Earl of Richmond in Ian McKellen‘s adaptation of Richard III (1995). He has since appeared in Chicago (2002), Mona Lisa Smile (2003), 300 (2007), Punisher: War Zone (2008), John Carter (2012), Pride (2014), Testament of Youth (2014), Money Monster (2016), Genius (2016), The Square (2017), Tomb Raider (2018), Colette (2018), and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022).
TODAY’S ALMAANC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Died
- Oliver Cromwell (military leader) –
- John McLoughlin (Father of Oregon”“) –
- e. e. cummings (poet) –
- Frank Capra (director) –
- W. Clement Stone (parlayed $100 into a $2 billion insurance empire) –
- William H. Rehnquist (Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) –
- Michael Clarke Duncan (actor) –
Born
- Sarah Orne Jewett (author) –
- Ferdinand Porsche (auto manufacturer) –
- Alan Ladd (actor) –
- Robert Truax (Rocket Scientist) –
- Mort Walker (cartoonist) –
- Eileen Brennan (actress) –
- Charlie Sheen (actor) –
- Dominic West (actor) –
- Shaun White (snowboarder and skateboarder) –
Events
- Treaty of Paris signed between the U.S. and Great Britain–
- New York Sun became the first daily penny press” newspaper”–
- Abolitionist Frederick Douglass escaped slavery–
- First classes at U.S. Naval War College began–
- First professional football game played–
- World record set by auto averaging 301.13 mph for 1 mile, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah–
- Search for Tomorrow first aired on television–
- Viking 2 lander touched down on Mars at Utopia Planitia–
- 19-inning baseball game began at Fenway Park in Boston–
- 47-lb. flathead catfish caught, Ohio River, Pennsylvania–
Weather
- According to the Royalists, the severe storm that struck the British Isles on this day in 1658 – also the day Oliver Cromwell died – was simple proof that the Devil had come for his soul.–
- A hurricane caused a 13-foot storm surge in New York City–
- Denver, Colorado, got 4.2 inches of snow–
- A hailstone measuring 17.5 inches in circumference and weighing 1.671 pounds was picked up and photographed in Coffeyville, Kansas–
- 89 degrees F, Stampede Pass, Washington–
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