FrameThrower · Actors · Dominic West
Dominic West
3 films · 431 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2007–2018
Born 15 October 1969 · Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West is an English actor, director, producer, and musician. He is best known for playing Jimmy McNulty in HBO's The Wire (2002–2008) and 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), 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 the 1998 BBC medical drama Out of Hours before appearing in the television films A Christmas Carol, 28…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 431 frames · top-billed in 2 · 2007–2018
- British Academy Television Award for Best Actor2012
- Ian Charleson Awards
How their films are shot
Measured across 431 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dominic takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 64% of their frames are day — the look of the work Dominic takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 431 frames from Dominic West's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.