Billy Boyd
Biography
Billy Boyd is a Scottish actor and musician born in Glasgow. After training at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and performing with the Traverse Theatre and St Andrews Repertory, he appeared in early screen roles such as Taggart (1996) and Urban Ghost Story (1998). His breakthrough was playing Peregrin Took in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, including The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Return of the King (2003). Boyd also played Barret Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Glen and Glenda in Seed of Chucky (2004), later returning to that role in the series Chucky. He contributed music, singing The Edge of Night for The Return of the King and writing The Last Goodbye for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. He fronts the band Beecake, and his ensemble work in The Return of the King won a Screen Actors Guild Award.
58years old
Turns 59 on August 28in 291 days
- Born Glasgow
- Star sign: VirgoThe sign runs August 23 to September 22
- Also credited as William Nathan Boyd
Movie Career
- Films
- 19
- Career span
- 24 years2001 to 2025
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A change of course
Before he became an actor, Boyd spent six years as a bookbinder. He later graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Beyond film
Billy Boyd sang and composed the melody for "The Edge of Night," a song included in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. It was later played over the trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.
Beyond film
Boyd is the frontman of a band named Beecake. The name came from a moment when Dominic Monaghan, his co-star in Lord of the Rings, sent him a photo of a cake swarming with bees.
Beyond film
Boyd wrote and performed "The Last Goodbye", a song heard over the ending credits of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the last film in the Hobbit trilogy.
Beyond film
In 2003, Boyd appeared as a guest on Viggo Mortensen's album Pandemoniumfromamerica. He played bass on two of its songs and drums on another.
Behind the award
In June 2010, Boyd's band Beecake released an album, Soul Swimming, and won VisitScotland's Best Live Act award at the Tartan Clef Music Awards. VisitScotland created the award to honor Scotland's live music scene and Glasgow's UNESCO City of Music title.
Billy Boyd movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003 Adventure, Drama, Fantasyas Pippin
IMDb rating 9.02.2M votes
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring2001 Adventure, Drama, Fantasyas Pippin
IMDb rating 8.92.2M votes
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World2003as Barrent Bonden, Coxswain
IMDb rating 7.5260K votes
Most often with
Peter Jackson directed three of these films. Six actors appear in four of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Sean Astin's page
Elijah Wood's page
Ian McKellen's page
Viggo Mortensen's page
Orlando Bloom's page
Dominic Monaghan's page
All films by Peter Jackson
Box office
What Billy Boyd's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$3.3 billion
8 of the 19 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 19 films: 8 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 1 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 8 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 1Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 8Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$1.1B33.7% of the total
- 2$926M27.9% of the total
- 3$871M26.2% of the total
- 4$212M6.4% of the total
- 5$146M4.4% of the total
- 6$25M0.7% of the total
- 7$21M0.6% of the total
- 8$878K0.0% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.