The Talent

Dom exploded onto the international scene by starring as Merry in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy and Charlie in Lost. After garnering almost universal acclaim for his portrayals, he found himself one of the busiest and hardest-working men in the industry. Dom has continued to star in major studio tentpoles like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, while also finding major success in the independent space with films like I Sell the Dead (which he also helped executive produce alongside Guillermo Del Toro).

Dom starred in his own Emmy and Critics’ Choice nominated wildlife documentary series Wild Things with Dominic Monoghan. His newest unscripted series, Billy and Dom Eat the World, follows Dom exploring foods around the world with his Lord of the Rings costar.

Billy Boyd was born in Glasgow Scotland where he began his acting and music career. Billy graduated from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Throughout his artistic life Billy has focused on both acting and music (composing and singing) with significant success. His initial acting began on the Scottish stage when St. Andrews Repertory hired Billy for their production of The Slab Boys and followed to play the title role in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. He has performed in several Shakespearean plays including playing Banquo in Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London followed by the film. In the fall of 1998 Billy was cast in the role of Pippin in Peter Jackson’s trilogy of Lord Of The Rings. The New Line Cinema’s trilogy shot over 18 months in New Zealand The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and finally The Return of the King. Billy’s character sublimely combined drama and comedy that clearly enriched the film and his career. He also wrote and performed the stirring song “Edge of Night” in Return of the King in a Wonderful sequence with John Noble. When Peter Jackson shot The Hobbit Trilogy he brought Billy back to write and perform the closing song for the Trilogy. “The Last Goodbye” was played over the final credits of The Hobbit: The Battle Of Five Armies. To follow with his music, Billy created the Bee Cake Band that has had worldwide success. Billy has gone on to work with serious actors in interesting films and significant television. Some of his television appearances have been Moby Dick, The Simpsons, Grey’s Anatomy, Outlander, which he recurred, in Hollywood (Playing Noel Coward,) and just completed Doom Patrol. Billy did a guest role in Motive where here was nominated for a Canadian Academy award. To name a few of the Motion Pictures he starred in are Peter Weir’s Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World with Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany, and Stone of Destiny with Robert Carlyle and Kate Mara. Forger with Alfred Molina, Hayden Panettiere and Lauren Bacall. Most recently Billy starred with Edward James Olmos, George Lopez, and Kathleen Quinlan in Walking With Herb.

Jason Isaacs starred as the unctuous Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, the brutal Colonel Tavington in The Patriot, Captain Hook and Mr Darling in Peter Pan, Ranger Commander Captain Steele in Black Hawk Down, D.J. – the ship’s doctor – in the cult classic Event Horizon, Major Briggs in Green Zone and the smartest man on the planet, Professor Quincy, in Armageddon amongst many others. On American TV he starred as lifelong criminal Michael Caffee in Showtime’s Brotherhood, FBI agent Peter Connelly in USA’s Dig, Jackson Brodie in the award-winning PBS show Case Studies, and Detective Michael Britten in NBC’s, dual reality drama Awake. As a voice actor he played The Grand Inquisitor in Star Wars Rebels, Admiral Zhao in Avatar – The Last Airbender, and hundreds of characters in dozens of well-known video games, none of which he can remember, (twice as Satan!). Most recently, you can see him as Gabriel Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery, and as “Hap” in Netflix’s The O.A.