Dominic West earned his acting chops. The Eton College graduate landed his first bit in 1991 in a short called “3 Joes,” playing the character Joe Smoker, per IMDb. It didn’t get much better than that for a long time — not until he landed “The Wire” in 2002 as Detective James ‘Jimmy’ McNulty. Things picked up the pace with the TV series “The Affair,” where he played Noah Solloway and in the “Downton Abbey” film “A New Era.” Dominic might be a familiar face now, if not quite a household name, but he wasn’t well-known for a long time.
Meanwhile, his son, Senan West had no prior acting experience whatsoever and waltzed onto the set of Netflix’s “The Crown” and landed the role of young Prince William. It certainly didn’t hurt that his dad was cast as Prince Charles! Dominic told Town & Country that casting agents were struggling to find a boy age 13 who resembled William and that’s when he brought Senan into the mix.
“Do you know how lucky you are? Bloody lucky!” Dominic asked Senan. As if this wasn’t intense enough for the new actor, Senan’s first scene on set was opposite Imedla Staunton, who plays Queen Elizabeth II. “This woman’s amazing. Listen and enjoy and learn,” Dominic said to his son. What a way to enter the acting world!
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