Dominic Monaghan

Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (born 8 December 1976) is an English actor. He is well known for playing Merry Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. He is also well known for playing Charlie Pace on the television series Lost.

Dominic Monaghan
Monaghan in 2003
Born	Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (1976-12-08) 8 December 1976 Berlin, Germany
Known for	Acting roles: "Meriadoc Brandybuck" in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy (2001–03) "Charlie Pace" in Lost (2004–2010)

Personal life

Monaghan was born in Berlin to British parents. He has a tattoo on his right arm of the English word "nine" written with the Tengwar script. It means that his character was one of the nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring in The Lord of the Rings. Many other cast members also got similar tattoos during the making of the movie. On his left arm is a tattoo that says "Living is easy with eyes closed", a line from The Beatles' song "Strawberry Fields Forever". On Lost, Charlie's tape/bandage finger-rings with letters spelling out words were Monaghan's idea. He thought that because Charlie is an artist, he would still want to be creative even when trapped on an island. Monaghan also actually plays the guitar on Lost.

Dominic dated Evangeline Lilly while the two of them were on Lost. The two broke up in 2007.

Other websites

• Dominic Monaghan on IMDb
• The Dominic Monaghan Resource Archived 2011-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Dominic Monaghan interview Archived 2007-03-03 at the Wayback Machine