Random Cast Of Lord Of Rings: Where Are They Now? (15 items)

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  (#10) Hugo Weaving

  Hugo Weaving took a break from villainous roles with his tenure as Elrond in The Lord of the Rings, but has returned to evil form in pretty much everything he's been in since. His run as Agent Smith took place during the LOTR years. He then went on to play Red Skull in the first Captain America during which time he was also voicing Megatron in the Transformers movies. In fact, even if you haven't seen Weaving in every sci-fi action movie since LOTR, you've probably heard his voice. He played V in V for Vendetta, which was largely voice work, as he wore a mask the whole time, and he took his vocal talents to the world of animated films as well as video games.

  Weaving is also a solid person off camera, raising a family with his girlfriend of over 30 years with whom he lives in Sydney and has two children. He's an animal rights activist for the organization Voiceless, becoming their Ambassador to Australia in 2004.
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  (#2) Cate Blanchett

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  Going into The Lord of the Rings, Blanchett was one of the biggest stars, having already won a Golden Globe as Queen Elizabeth in the eponymous film, for which she also received an Oscar nomination. She continued to amass awards and nominations after the trilogy, winning two Academy Awards, one for Supporting Actress in The Aviator, and one as a Leading Actress in Blue Jasmine. She's had no issues finding work: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Monuments Men, reprising her role in The Hobbit trilogy, Family Guy, How to Train Your Dragon 2, and of course, Thor: Ragnarok, to name a few. 

  Unlike most actors, Blanchett is in a long-term, successful marriage, having been married to playwright Andrew Upton since 1997. She's also an activist for a number of causes, and was named global Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2016. 
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  (#7) Sean Astin

  Much like his fellow hobbit Frodo, Sean Astin has been all over the map since The Lord of the Rings. He's been in live-action TV shows and movies, voiced characters in animated TV shows and movies, and also offered his voice to many video games. Shortly after LOTR, he had a large supporting role in 50 First Dates, then a recurring role on 24 not long after that. He's been in a slew of video games, voicing Raphael in a few of them while also voicing the Ninja Turtle in the animated series since 2012. All this of course has come after LOTR, before which he was already a star from The Goonies and Rudy.

  And now he's a meme. Astin played the universally loved Bob Newby in Netflix's Stranger Things. After a tragically heroic death, fans were heartbroken thus immediately came to be the #BobNewbySuperhero meme, eulogizing the sweet, genuine character all over social media, placing him upon a pedestal of heroism.  
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  (#6) Andy Serkis

  With his role as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, Andy Serkis became the "Godfather of Motion Capture," in CNET's words. Since then he's donned the quintessential ball-covered tech suit to embody King Kong, Supreme Leader Snoke, and Caesar, the protagonist of the wildly successful Planet of the Apes franchise reboot. But he's also gotten to show his real, human face on screen, starting that transition, oddly enough, by playing Richard Kneeland in 13 Going on 30. A whole slew of traditional acting roles have fallen in his lap since, with Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll and, most notably, breaking into the empire that is the Marvel Comics Universe as Ulysses Klaue aka Klaw in Avengers: Age of Ultron and now Black Panther.

  Serkis is another one of those weird celebrities with a successful marriage. He's been married since 2002, and lives with his wife and three children in North London. Using his motion capture expertise, Serkis founded The Imaginarium Studios in 2011, now adding producer and director to his resume, with a huge gig behind the camera as director of Disney's 2018 film Mowgli.
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  (#3) Viggo Mortensen

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  Although Viggo Mortensen had appeared in a couple big movies before Lord of the Rings (Psycho and G.I. Jane), his role as Aragorn was definitely his big break. Immediately after LOTR, Mortensen started getting lead roles in action movies thrown at him, with the family friendly Hidalgo first, followed by a couple decidedly not family friendly flicks, A History of Violence and Eastern Promises. Since then he's started to slowly transition to more traditional drama with the film adaptation of The Road being somewhere in the middle of the two genres, and more recently Captain Fantastic, a 2016 family drama for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor as Ben, a struggling father of six.

  In his personal life, Mortensen is known for his linguistic capabilities, speaking Danish, English, French, and Spanish fluently, as well as being conversational in Italian, and can understand Norwegian and Swedish. He's also a huge hockey fan, specifically of the Montreal Canadiens, proving his love by wearing a Canadiens tee under his armor throughout the filming of LOTR. "It gave me just a little more power with the sword," he said, according to The Globe and Mail.
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  (#13) Dominic Monaghan

  Shortly after his stint as Meriadoc Brandybuck, Dominic Monaghan earned the honor of being killed by Sabretooth in the terrible X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He then went on to have a long run as Charlie Pace on J. J. Abrams's hit show Lost. Other than that, since LOTR Monaghan's been in video games, a bunch of random TV shows, a couple small movies, and an Eminem music video. 

  His work doesn't end there, however; he's done work for PETA, owns a small forest in India, and has a variety of strange but awesomely named pets, including a black widow spider named Witchitar, a leaf-mantis named Gizmo, and an albino snake named Blink. He also has a spider named after him after helping discover the species. On top of all that, he dated fellow Middle Earther Evangeline Lilly for five years.

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