I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

There he was scouted for Hetty Wainthropp Investigates on which he played Hetty's under-aged sidekick Geoffrey Shawcross for four series. Monaghan originally auditioned for the role of Sawyer. It was part of a programme called REESES Puff's Extraordinary Cinema (Where the teens replace the pros).

R. Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (pron. R.