Dominic Monaghan

Dominic Monaghan was born in Berlin, Germany on December 8, 1976 although his nationality is British. A good connoisseur of both languages, Dom, as he likes to be called, has a certain ability to imitate different accents, which gives him a plus when it comes to finding different roles in feature films. Unlike his parents, who dedicated themselves to the world of teaching and medicine, Dominic already knew what he wanted to do since he was a child, his interest in acting was immediate and even before finishing high school he was already giving his first steps. steps in interpretation. In Machester, where he lived for a long time on moving from Berlin, he began his adventure in the Youth Theater Association. In addition, part of his studies at the St. Anne’s RC Institute were dedicated to dramatic art,

So many years of training paid off when in 1998 he made the leap with the TV movie Troubled Waters , a thriller about the Cold War in which he landed a small role as a Russian sailor. A year later he landed a regular role in the English series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, in which he played the protagonist’s nephew. His big moment was approaching and in 2001 after auditioning for the adaptation of Tolkien’s novels, he received a call that would change his life. His name would appear in the credits of the saga that his father gave him when he was only fifteen years old: The Lord of the Rings .His character, Merry, is one of four endearing hobbits who set out on the path to the destruction of the ring. Instantly the adventure trilogy became one of the best rated in the history of cinema and Monaghan became known worldwide. The end of this unforgettable journey came in 2003 after seventeen Oscars and overwhelming box office success. It was then that Dominic decided to move to Los Angeles, where he continued with another of his passions: surfing.

Although closing this great stage of his life was hard, he managed to recover from the depression that accompanied him after leaving New Zealand, the location of the filming of the three films. He was on the crest of the wave and it was not the time to get off, so he quickly got down to business and boy did he do it. In 2004 he premiered one of the series that changed the way of doing television: Lost . A fantastic drama about a flight that crashes on a lost island and its occupants have to learn to live together and combat the dangers that await them. His character was one of the most beloved in the series, he played old musical glory and a drug addict. His pathos, his desire to improve himself and leave that world behind moved the viewers, because he managed to arouse different feelings. During filming he met his future partner both off and on camera, Evangeline Lilly .

What seemed like a promising career ended in that, because incomprehensibly he began to receive short-lived roles, such as in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), the first feature film about the life of the mythical character played by Hugh Jackman . That same year he became a series regular on the sci-fi production FlashForward , though it only lasted one season. His next characters failed to raise him up again and he opted for productions like The Day , a post-apocalyptic action film in which he plays one of the young people trying to survive. In 2012 he worked with Sean Bean , Christian Slater and Ving Rhames , in the unconvincingSoldiers of Fortune .

Without any succulent project in hand, it could be said that Dominic Monaghan had his moment and it seems that he will not return… or yes, only time and his choices will tell. Meanwhile, he knows how to solve it with other hobbies such as music – several songs from The Lord of the Rings and Lost have been sung by him – surfing and writing.