SHOWTIME has cast Golden Globe nominee and Screen Actors Guild Award winner Dominic West (THE WIRE) as the male lead of its drama pilot THE AFFAIR. West will play Noah, a good husband, devoted father of four, and New York City high school teacher whose settled, comfortable world is about to implode when he meets a woman he thinks is his soul mate.From award-winning playwright and writer/producer Sarah Treem (HOUSE OF CARDS) and co-creator Hagai Levi (IN TREATMENT), THE AFFAIR is an intense and intimate exploration of two marriages and an affair that disrupts them - with all of the complex consequences that result.