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LOTR Castmember Timeline

Canon Timeline 1980s 1990s 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
1990-1998
Date
Location
Event
Castmembers
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'90   Ian knighted Ian Ian knighted for his services to the arts (was not the first gay man to be knighted, however)
?/91 Manchester Reads Lord of the Rings Dom Gift from father; took 2 months to read. Age 14.
92-95 Manchester? Sixth Form College Dom  
?/95 Manchester Annie and Fanny from Bolton to Rome & The Resurrectionists Dom Performs in two plays directed by Lawrence Till at the Bolton Octagon and Croydon Warehouse.
?/95 Manchester Discovered by agent Dom Offered role of Geoffrey Shawcross for Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.
Dom: "I've been working professionally since I was 18. I came out of Sixth Form College and went straight into youth theatres in Manchester. An agent who saw me in a play took me on and rang me with an offer from the BBC. I worked for four years on 'Hetty Wainthrop Investigates' as Geoffrey Shawcross."
96-98 Darwen, UK Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Dom As Geoffrey Shawcross.
In order to make ends meet and to stop a local, homeless teenager from becoming a juvenille delinquent, Hetty Wainthropp, a sprightly intelligent pensioner looking for a new challenge, decides to become a private investigator much to the disgust and disbelief of her lazy husband. Once she has made up her mind she becomes an unstoppable force and, led by Hetty, the three set forth to investigate crimes of less interest to the local police force in and around their little village in the beautiful Lancashire countryside.
?/97 London Hostile Waters Dom Dom plays a Russian sailor.
?/97 Austin, TX The Faculty Elijah During filming, Elijah is told about LOTR by Harry Knowles (of Aint-It-Cool-News).
Elijah: "I was working in Austin, Texas, on 'The Faculty,' and that's where Harry lives, and he often visited the set because he was friends with Robert Rodriguez. And one day he came up to me, and he was like, 'Dude, they're making 'Lord of the Rings' as a feature. You gotta play Frodo!' And the news was really exciting, but they weren't casting for it at that point. It was just kind of in the news. I first heard about it from him, [but] I actually wasn't approached to audition for it until nearly a year later.
10/23/98-? New York Black and White Elijah James Toback ("Two Girls and a Guy") has begun production on his latest effort in New York, "Black and White." Toback writes and directs, with producer Edward R. Pressman ("Two Girls and a Guy," "Wall Street") along for the ride again. The story involves a group of teens from wealthy, white New York families who hang out at uptown hip-hop clubs and get mixed up in the murder of a teenage black boy. The diverse cast includes Elijah Wood ("Deep Impact"), Ben Stiller ("Permanent Midnight"), Gaby Hoffman ("200 Cigarettes"), Claudia Schiffer ("The Edge"), Brooke Shields ("The Misadventures of Margaret"), Robert Downey, Jr. ("Two Girls and a Guy") and Joe Pantoliano ("Bound").
12/98 Leeds, Bradford and Sheffield This is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper Dom TV movie of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s.

 

Canon Timeline 1980s 1990s 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003