Actor says boarding school ‘grief ’ traumatic

Dominic West has said being sent to boarding school when he was young was almost as traumatic as losing his parents.

The actor said being educated away from home at Eton had a “major effect” on him.

He said: “It was the worst feeling I have ever had, very similar to the grief when my parents died.

“It’s the same thing really; you think you’ve lost your parents. I learned to bury the emotional effects of that and then I went to drama school and had to dig it all up again.” 0 The actor is best known for his role in US drama The Wire

West, 46, admitted it irritated him that he was pigeon-holed as an “Old Etonian”.

He said he doubted he would have landed his role in gritty American crime drama The Wire if it had been a BBC series.