Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (born 8 December 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. He is currently portraying the character Dr. Simon Campos on FlashForward.
Day: December 8, 2009
In an interview today with MTV, Peter Jackson revealed that three Lord of the Rings actors will be returning to reprise their roles in The Hobbit:
“Gandalf, being a 2,000-year-old wizard, is still around and plays a major role in ‘The Hobbit,’ and we’re having Ian McKellen reprise,” explained the filmmaker, who is executive-producing the flick and writing the screenplay. “There’s a couple of other characters: Elrond, who was played by Hugo Weaving [in the original films], and there’s a possibility of Galadriel, who was played by Cate Blanchett.”
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Jack over at the Noldor Blog is reporting rumours about a film location in Upper Hutt’s Harcourt Park, possibly near the old Isengard location. This is just outside of Wellington. Read More
Viggo Mortensen talked about some of the pranks he used to play on his co-stars in a recent interview on Live magazine. More