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Dominic Monaghan
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Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan is a British actor, film actor, stage actor, and screenwriter. Born on December 8, 1976, in Berlin, West Berlin, he has resided in Los Angeles. His acting career began in 1996, and he is noted for his role as Meriadoc Brandybuck. Monaghan has received Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
He speaks English and German. Monaghan’s interests include zoology, and he participates in karate, association football, surfing, and snowboarding. He supports Manchester United F.C. His unmarried partner is Evangeline Lilly.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- LADY GAGA Calendar 2022
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Film & TV
Acting · Berlin, Germany
Dominic Monaghan (born December 8, 1976) is an English actor. He has received international attention from playing Merry in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and for his role as Charlie Pace on the television show Lost.
Known for
- Long Shadows — Ned Duxbury2025
- Billy & Dom Eat the World — Self2025
- The Librarians: The Next Chapter — Merlin2025
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim — Wrot (voice)2024
- Getting LOST — Self (archive footage)2024
- Angry Birds Mystery Island — Hamylton (voice)2024
- LOST: Circle — Charlie Pace2023
- Last Looks — Warren Gomes2022
- Moonhaven — Paul Sarno2022
- The Legend of Vox Machina — Archibald Desnay (voice)2022
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Music · MusicBrainz
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1976
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Dominic (Dom) Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan, born 8 December, 1976, is an English actor. He has received international attention from the success of playing Merry in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and his role as Charlie Pace on the television show Lost. He is the younger brother of English musician, Matt Monaghan. Monaghan was born in Berlin, Germany. At the age of twelve, his family moved from Germany to Heaton Moor in Stockport, Greater Manchester, and
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,786x
- Global and regional diabetes prevalence estimates for 2019 and projections for 2030 and 2045: Results from the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas, 9th edition
· 2019 · cited 8,980x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,930x
- THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE
· 2010 · cited 7,218x
- Smoothed particle hydrodynamics: theory and application to non-spherical stars
· 1977 · cited 5,994x
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Encyclopedic overview
Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (born 8 December 1976) is a British actor. He is best known for playing Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's film trilogy The Lord of the Rings (2001–2003), and Charlie Pace on the ABC television drama Lost (2004–2010).
Monaghan first gained fame as Hetty Wainthropp's sidekick Geoffrey in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998). His first film role was as Sasha in the television film Hostile Waters (1997) based on the true story of a Soviet and a US submarine colliding in the Cold War. His other film roles include playing the young mutant Chris Bradley formerly known as Maverick in the superhero film X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and playing Beaumont Kin in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019), reuniting with J.J. Abrams, the co-creator of Lost. He has also hosted the nature programme Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan (2012–2016).
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