1. William Nathan Boyd was born on 28 August 1968 and is a Scottish actor and musician.
22 Facts About Billy Boyd
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Billy Boyd worked as a bookbinder for six years before pursuing an acting career.
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Billy Boyd started his career appearing in Taggart, The Soldier's Leap, and Urban Ghost Story.
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Billy Boyd appeared in the 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland production of Caledonia Dreaming by David Greig in 1997.
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Billy Boyd wrote the melody for and sang the song "The Edge of Night", which was featured in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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Billy Boyd wrote and performed the song "The Last Goodbye", which is played during the ending credits of the film.
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Billy Boyd has made a cameo appearance in the popular Scottish comedy Still Game in the second episode of the first series.
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Billy Boyd has been in several plays; including San Diego and The Ballad of Crazy Paola.
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Billy Boyd performed at the Dundee Repertory Theatre in the role of Davie in Sunshine on Leith, as well as in Long Hong Jimmy, in which he was the lead actor.
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In 2013, Billy Boyd played Banquo in Shakespeare's Macbeth, at the Shakespeare's Globe alongside Joseph Millson and Samantha Spiro.
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Billy Boyd made his stage debut in 2024 with The Lord of the Rings castmate Dominic Monaghan in the Canadian production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
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Billy Boyd made a guest appearance on Viggo Mortensen's 2003 album Pandemoniumfromamerica, where he played the bass on two songs, as well as drums on another.
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In 2014, Billy Boyd wrote and performed the song "The Last Goodbye", which was played over the ending credits of the movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
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Billy Boyd is an avid surfer and spent his free time surfing in New Zealand during the production for The Lord of the Rings.
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Billy Boyd trained in martial arts at the Krauseworld Academy in Glasgow under brothers Steve Krause and Mike Krause where he achieved Phase 4 rank in both Jeet Kune Do and Filipino Kali.
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Billy Boyd topped a list of the 100 Most Eligible Men in Scotland in 2002.
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Billy Boyd owns a house in Glasgow with his wife, Alison McKinnon.
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Billy Boyd has a tattoo of the Elvish word for "nine" written with the Tengwar script, a reference to his involvement in The Lord of the Rings, and the fact that his character was one of the nine members of the Fellowship of the Ring.
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Billy Boyd remains close with The Lord of the Rings co-star Dominic Monaghan.
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Billy Boyd is one of the patrons of Scottish Youth Theatre, Scotland's National Theatre "for and by" young people.
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Billy Boyd is the patron of the National Boys' Choir of Scotland.
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In 2008, Billy Boyd fronted VisitScotland's Perfect Day Campaign, and talked of his love of surfing in Scotland, particularly in Machrihanish near the town of Campbeltown in Kintyre in the west coast of Scotland, and Pease Bay and Coldingham Bay on Scotland's east coast.