Excerpted from "All That Glitters: With Success at the Golden Globes and Anticipation Building for the Oscars, the British Film Industry Has Never Looked Healthier. So Why Is So Much Young Talent Still Leaving the Country? Tom Teodorczuk Investigates" by Tom Teodorczuk; New Statesman, Vol. 136, February 12, 2007 

Following a string of successes on television, the 30-year-old Mancunian actor Dominic Monaghan made it big as Merry in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He is now living in LA, where he has found work on the TV series Lost. "I always wanted to support the British film industry but I just wasn't given the opportunity," he said recently. "A year after doing Lord of the Rings and shopping myself around London, I just thought: I have to go where the work is."

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