Dominic Albert Edward Minghella (born 1966)[1] is a British television producer and screenwriter.

The main character's surname, Ellingham, is an anagram of the Minghella family name.

[2] As a child, Minghella starred in the first film his brother Anthony directed, A Little Like Drowning.

Minghella was producer of the 2012 adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel, The Scapegoat, directed by Charles Sturridge and starring Matthew Rhys.

[3] In December 2018, as British Prime Minister Theresa May struggled to convince Parliament to support her Brexit agreement with the European Union, Minghella wrote and directed a three-minute political short 'The People's Vote', starring Andy Serkis in a parody of May as the two faces of his Gollum-Sméagol character, alternately coveting her 'precious' exit document and (less strongly) considering her duty to the British people, as support for a further referendum on the divisive issue.