Dominic Minghella

Dominic Minghella (born 1966) is a British television producer and screenwriter. His most successful project has been the creation of the ITV network comedy-drama series Doc Martin, starring Martin Clunes, which began in 2004. The main character's surname, Ellingham, is an anagram of the Minghella family name. Minghella was also the chief writer and show runner of BBC One's 2006 production Robin Hood, produced independently for the BBC by Tiger Aspect Productions. Family Dominic Minghella is the brother of Loretta Minghella and the late Anthony Minghella, Max Minghella being his nephew and Hannah Minghella his niece; both of whom work in film. Dominic's son, Dante, appeared on the 2006 Channel 4 programme Child Genius. He read PPE at Merton College, Oxford. His sister Edana Minghella co-wrote four episodes of Doc Martin. Career As a child, Minghella starred in the first film his brother Anthony directed, A Little Like Drowning. He co-wrote the film The Prince and the Pauper in 2000. Minghella was lead writer and executive producer of the BBC One series Robin Hood for the first two seasons, overseeing 26 episodes and several of the place names used in the series were directly taken from place names on his native Isle of Wight. He has also written for Hamish Macbeth, starring Robert Carlyle, and for Boon.