Personal Life
West was born into an Irish Catholic family in Sheffield, England, the son of George West, who owned a plastics factory, and Moya, a housewife. West attended Eton College and Trinity College, Dublin. Dominic West graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, in 1995.
In 1998 West and Polly Astor (the daughter of Michael Astor) had a daughter named Martha, who appeared in the film Creation in 2009 alongside Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly.
West and Catherine FitzGerald became engaged in 2007, and married in Glin, County Limerick, Ireland, on 26 June 2010. They have three children together: Dora, Senan and Francis. Catherine FitzGerald is an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, being the daughter of Desmond FitzGerald, the 29th Knight of Glin, and was formerly married to Edward Lambton, 7th Earl of Durham.
In November 2010, West was awarded an honorary degree for services to the Arts by Sheffield Hallam University, and in November 2011, West was also awarded the Honorary Patronage of the Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated from with a degree in English in previous years.
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