Trivia


  • He never thought The History Boys would be the huge success it was, but felt he ought to accept the role "because it's Alan Bennett".

  • Discovered in 2007 that he had a half-sister he did not know about after she got in touch with Dominic's father after seeing Dominic appear in Down To Earth when her mum said: 'Oh my God, he looks just like your father.'

  • He maintains that, despite the sadness of his sister's death when she was five and parents' subsequent divorce, his childhood was largely a happy one.


  • He only stayed on at school for A-levels only because the drama department wanted him to appear in a school play.

  • Whilst appearing in Part One the theatre adaptation of His Dark Materials as Will, when he wasn't needed on stage, he volunteered to play an armoured bear and a tartar guard both of which were "very hot and very uncomfortable" costumes.

  • If he had a daemon, it would be a cat.


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