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Dominic Monaghan is currently playing in one of ABC's popular series "LOST", as the former rockstar (Driveshaft) Charlie Pace. You can purchase both seasons here and here
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| Owner: Britney (email & LJ) Established: December 8, 2005 Type: Fansite Version: 0.4 Online: online |
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| This site is in no way affiliated with Dominic Monaghan. I am not Dom, nor do I know or have met him. I am just a fan with a site dedicated to Dom out of admiration for him. |
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•BIOGRAPHY•
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 Dominic Monaghan was born in Berlin, Germany, on December 8, 1976. He is the youngest of two boys (brother Matthew). His father, a schoolteacher and mother, a nurse. When Dominic was 12 years old, his family moved back to Manchester. Dom has worked several jobs when he was growing up. (Mail sorter, a stock boy, a sauté chef) but he always wanted to be an actor. He enrolled at Aquinas College, a Catholic sixth form school in England, where he studied English literature, drama, and geography. In his second year, Dominic performed in "Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol", he played the Artful Dodger in Dickens, in Oliver Twist, and even portrayed American gangster Bugsy Malone. Dominic soon started acting outside of school and joined the Manchester Youth Theatre. His work with the troupe caught the attention of a talent agent, who sent him to an open casting call for the television show Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, starring veteran actress Patricia Routledge. At the age of 18, Dominic made his television first appearance as amateur detective Patricia Routledge's underage sidekick, Geoffrey Shawcross.
Dominic Monaghan appeared on Hetty Wainthrop Investigates for four seasons. In the next few years, Dominic made his feature-film first appearance as a Russian sailor in Hostile Waters with Rutger Hauer, they taped the docudrama This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper, in which Dominic portrays the boyfriend of a girl attacked by the Ripper. He also recorded his first BBC radio show, "Stockport...So Good They Named It Once," a family sitcom that features Dominic as a witty, lovelorn 15 year old.
Dominic was performing in a play in London when casting directors scouted him for The Lord of the Rings. As a child, he had read all three volumes of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy; the books were his father's favourite. After a formal audition for The Lord of the Rings, Dominic left England to film the WWII miniseries Monsignor Renard (1999) in France, in which he plays a droll layabout, whose life dramatically changes during the German occupation. Six months into shooting, Dominic's agent warned him to be prepared to immediately leave for Los Angeles or New Zealand to meet with Peter Jackson, The Lord of the Rings' director. The meeting never occurred, within days, he was called with an offer to play hobbit Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck, a major character in all three films.
The Lord of the Rings' three installments -- The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003) -- were taped simultaneously in New Zealand and kept Dominic occupied for almost two years. After his return to England, Dominic also completed his own comedy screenplay with fellow hobbit, Billy Boyd.
Dominic is currently in Hawaii, filming ABC's hit series LOST created by J.J. Abrams, he plays as the former rockstar and junkie, Charlie Pace.
Bio taken from MSN
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