Having never seen either actor in anything else before The Wire, I too was convinced that they were American. While watching the scene where McNulty went underc

Having never seen either actor in anything else before The Wire, I too was convinced that they were American. While watching the scene where McNulty went undercover to play an English visitor to Baltimore, I thought his accent was laughably bad – and that it was intentionally bad to add even more humour to that scene. I was doubly impressed when I later found out Dominic West actually is English and had even studied in Trinity College, Dublin (my adopted home).