The Wire on HBO: Play Or Get Played In David Simon's Baltimore

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Jim King: I'm with Dominic West.

Dominic West: Hello, Jim.

JK: Dominic is a British actor born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, and stars as Jimmy McNulty on "The Wire."  Would you say you're the star?

DW: Absolutely, I'm the star, the central character about around which everyone else frankly pales into insignificance.

JK: Dominic also has major movie credits, "Hannibal Rising," "Chicago," "Mona Lisa Smiles," "The Forgotten," "Rock Star"...

DW: "300."

JK: I was just getting to that.  And the surprise hit, the Spartan costume bloodfest, "300."  I loved it.  Dominic is also an accomplished stage actor?

DW: Yes, you could say that.

JK: How did you become an actor?

DW: I went to a drama school called the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which is mainly a music school, but it also has an acting school.  I wanted to be an actor by the age of 9, as my mother was an actor in Sheffield.  It was a while after that when I went professional, about eleven or twelve years ago.

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