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* On ''[[Extras]]'', Andy tells his agent he want to get on "cool shows- American shows". In the Christmas special, Andy's agent tells him he's had an offer for a movie (Andy perks up)... a British movie (Andy wilts).
* In ''[[The TV Set]]'' Ioan Gruffudd plays Richard McCallister, a TV executive who moves from England to [[Los Angeles]] to take a job as second-in-command at a fictional TV network, which is headed by Lenny ([[Sigourney Weaver]]). Richard tries to counter-balance Lenny's fervent desire for high ratings by emphasizing the need for quality programming and preserving the writer's wishes. Richard's wife Chloe, played by Lucy Davis, hates [[Los Angeles]] and eventually leaves Richard to return to England.
* The dream of the titular (Irish) character from ''[[
* The premise of ''[[Episodes (TV series)|Episodes]]'' is that of a husband-and-wife team of British television writers finding themselves living this trope, with all its attendant pitfalls.
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* Jaime Murray (formerly of ''[[Hustle]]'', she played Lila in ''[[Dexter]]'')
* Hugh Laurie
* Writer Terry Nation, though he was more successful in
** A number of British writers have also done this, some more successfully than others.
* [[Tim Roth]] did it so well there's people who forget he's English. Not in the new ''Hulk'' movie, though!
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* [[Christopher Eccleston]] did it after leaving [[
** [[David Tennant]] might do the same.
* Matthew Macfadyen did it after he left ''[[Spooks]]'' before giving up and came back to the UK.
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** He has since moved back to the U.S. and become an American citizen.
* The high income tax rates in the Britain forced [[Michael Caine]] to leave and move to Hollywood in the late Seventies. He moved back to the UK a decade later.
* Appropriately enough considering the aforementioned ''Extras'' example, Ricky Gervais himself has been getting in some American movies, like ''Night at the Museum'' and a starring role in ''Ghost Town''. He has made repeated references to this trope in real life, like appearing by satellite when Steve Merchant won a Bafta to congratulate
* A directing example is [[Christopher Nolan]]. He was born in London but spends a lot of his time in Chicago.
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]
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