News for Dec. 19, 2004

Boyd leads £1m drive to give youth theatre a new home

12/19/04, 11:51 am EST - Xoanon

Billy Boyd, the actor who won a starring role in the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy, is leading a £1 million fundraising drive to ensure other young Scots performers have the chance to make it big. Boyd is the patron of Scottish Youth Theatre (SYT), where he started out as an usher - a far cry from his epic role as Pippin in Peter Jackson’s Tolkien trilogy. [More]