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Dominic Monaghan Net Worth 2020, Bio, Age, Height

Dominic Monaghan began his acting career on British television.

More precisely in 1996, in Les Enquêtes d’Hetty, a BBC One series featuring a retiree carrying out police investigations.

He plays there a teenager who, during the four seasons that the show lasts, helps the sexagenarian heroine in her investigations.

He then went on to play more or less important roles, with Péril en Mer, a television film where he rubbed shoulders with Martin Sheen, and also the mini-series This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.

After these first appearances, it won’t be long before the young actor from Manchester gets noticed.

Early Life

Dominic Monaghan in a British actor who was born on December 8, 1976 in Berlin, Germany and became particularly famous for his character as Merry in the trilogy of The Lord of the Rings.

Monaghan has an older brother named Matthew and his parents, both are English. His family moved to Heaton Moor, Stockport, England when Dominic was twelve, and then moved to Manchester; So Dominic speaks English and German fluently.

He is known for his ability to imitate accents and other people. He studied English Literature, Theater and Geography at the St. Anne’s RC Institute.

From a young age I work in several jobs including sorting correspondence in the local post office, packer in a store and chef in a restaurant, although he was clear that he wanted to be an actor.

After his second year of school, he became a regular actor in school children’s plays, performing works such as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol and Bugsy Malone until the time came.

When he was only 18 years old, and without ever stepping into a film studio, Monaghan won the leading role of Geoffrey in the Hetty Wainthropp youth series “Hetty Wainthropp Investigates,” starring the famous British actress Patricia Routledge.

He debuted for the film industry playing a Russian sailor named Sasha, in the television movie Aguas Hostiles, starring Martin Sheen recorded in England and Germany.

Other works of his on television include: This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (2000) and the lead role in Monsignor Renard (1999), where he played a young man whose life changes dramatically during the German occupation.

In the theater, Monaghan has worked on the British production The Resurrectionists and Whale and Annie and Fanny from Bolton to Rome.

He also lent his voice to the male lead character Jason, from the BBC’s Stockport radio series.

Career Path

Monaghan was recording Monsignor Renard when he learned that he had obtained the role of Merry in the Lord of the Rings trilogy directed by Peter Jackson.

Slim by nature, Monaghan wore a suit specially designed to make him look plump during the recording.

After the filming of The Lord of the Rings, he moved to live in Los Angeles, California, with his cast partner Elijah Wood, and began writing a movie script along with his best friend Billy Boyd. Not long ago he acknowledged having suffered a deep depression during the first year after leaving New Zealand.

For a while, Dominic dedicated himself to small roles, participating in short films such as Insomiac Nightmare and independent English cinema, until his opportunity for television came thanks to the lost series in which he plays Charlie Pace, a musician in low hours and with drug addiction.

With the death of his character at the end of the third season of the series, the actor left the island of Hawaii to devote himself to other projects on the continent. Still he collaborated again in Lost as a guest star.

Among his upcoming works is the latest installment of the X-men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman and whose premiere is scheduled for spring 2009. His character will be Barnell, a mysterious character from Wolverine’s past who has the ability to manipulate energy in general and especially electricity.

In 2010 he started shooting the Soldiers of Fortune movie with which he shared again with his friend Sean Bean.

The film is about some millionaires who spend their money on things that increase their adrenaline, but finally things get a little twisted. He has also starred with Megan Fox the music video “Love the Way You Lie” of rapper Eminem and singer Rihanna.

Monaghan was born in Berlin, Germany. He has an older brother named Matthew and his parents, both are English. His family moved to Heaton Moor, Stockport, England when Dominic was twelve, and then moved to Manchester; So Dominic speaks English and German fluently.

He is known for his ability to imitate accents and other people. He studied English Literature, Theater and Geography at the St. Anne’s RC Institute.

Although he had many jobs when he was young, he always wanted to be an actor. After his second year of school, he became a regular actor in school children’s plays, performing works such as Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol and Bugsy Malone.

Dominic had several jobs (including sorting correspondence at the local post office, packer in a store and chef in a restaurant) while studying English Literature, Dramatic Arts and Geography at Sixth Form College when he was offered the co-starring role in the series ‘Hetty Wainthropp investigates’.

He debuted for the film industry playing a Russian sailor named Sasha, in the television movie “Hostile Waters”, starring Martin Sheen.

Other works of his on television include: ‘This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper’ (2000) and the lead role in ‘Monsignor Renard’ (1999), where he played a young man whose life changes dramatically during the German occupation.

In the theater, Monaghan has worked on the British production ‘The Resurrectionists’ and ‘Whale and Annie and Fanny from Bolton to Rome’.

Dominic Monaghan became known to a wide audience through his role as Hobbit Merry in the blockbuster “Lord of the Rings”, in which he is a close friend of the main character Frodo. In the television series “Lost” Dominic Monaghan was part of the regular cast in the first three seasons. The actor originally auditioned for the role of Sawyer.

Dominic always knew he wanted to be an actor. First he appeared in the school theater, later he joined the “Manchester Youth Theater”, where he was discovered for the British television series “Hetty Wainthropp Investigates”.

However, director J. J. Abrams decided to cast the part of the series character Charlie Pace with Monaghan. The role was rewritten to do justice to Dominic Monaghan’s age. An old rocker from the eighties became a young one-hit wonder.

The actor is a self-confessed nature and animal lover. He has worked with the animal welfare organization “PETA” and owns some unusual pets. These include a praying mantis, a black widow and an albino snake.

Dominic Monaghan was with Evangeline Lilly from 2004 to 2009, who played the role of Kate Austen in “Lost”. His profile also reveals that he has numerous tattoos and has long been a big fan of the “Manchester United” football team.

Personal life

He learned to surf in New Zealand along with his friends Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, Sean Astin (the “hobbits”), and confessed to being delighted to have lived in Hawaii because its beaches are perfect for surfing.

Dominic is an active environmentalist (he owns his own forest in India) and enjoys the outdoors, monkeys, insects and football, especially the Manchester United team. He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he lives with a Black Widow spider as a pet.

He is currently rumored to be engaged to his Lost Evangeline co-star Lilly.

However, Monaghan is extremely jealous of her intimacy, and has never confirmed or denied the romance (nor any other that has been rumored before).

His parents are British but Dominic Monaghan was born in Berlin, and grew up in Germany until at age 12 he finally moved to the island. The family took root in Manchester and Dominic began to be seduced by the theater.

He joined the Manchester Youth Theater company to subsequently study English literature and drama. He held jobs of the most diverse nature until in 1997 he got his first role in a TV movie titled Turbulent Waters.

His stroke of luck came in 2001. Peter Jackson was looking for hobbits for his ambitious adaptation of The Lord of the Rings and Dominic took over one of the main roles, that of Meriadoc Brandigamo.

From 2004 to 2010 he played Charlie Pace, a young heroin addict who fights his drug addiction.

In 2006, he was much talked about when his relationship with his colleague Evangeline Lilly was revealed. Their love story will end sometime later.

After the series ended, the actor became rarer, we can still see him in X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 and Soldiers of fortune in 2012.

The success of the trilogy projected its image to a new level, and Dominic propped up its growing popularity thanks to the lost series, in which he spent four years temporarily parking his film career.

This took off again in 2009 thanks to X-Men Origins: Wolverine and then return to the silly box, except for specific exceptions as a companion animal.

Quick summary

Full name: Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan

Date of birth: 8 December 1976

Birthplace: West Berlin, West Germany

Age: 43

Profession: Actor

Height: 1.70 m

Weight: 72kg

Net Worth: 12$ million

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