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Scottish actor and musician

William Nathan Boyd (born 28 August 1968),

Boyd was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to William and Mary Boyd, who both died a year apart when Boyd was in his early teens. He worked as a bookbinder for six years before pursuing an acting career. After graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he went on to perform with St Andrews Repertory and the Traverse Theatre. The song was later used over the trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), the final film in the Hobbit trilogy. Boyd also wrote and performed the song "The Last Goodbye", which is played during the ending credits of the film. In 2022, he reprised his Child's Play role in the second season finale of the television series Chucky, titled "Chucky Actually", as a merged incarnation of Glen and Glenda Tilly, known as G. G. Valentine. He made his stage debut in 2024 with Lord of the Rings castmate Dominic Monaghan in the Canadian production of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Boyd fronts a band called Beecake. The band was named after a time when Boyd's Lord of the Rings co star Dominic Monaghan sent a picture of a cake covered in bees. Other members of the band included Paul Burke, Billy Johnston, and Rick Martin. 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. In June 2010, Beecake released an album Soul Swimming. As well as topping some of the international MySpace charts, the band was awarded VisitScotland's award for Best Live Act at the Tartan Clef Music Awards. The award was created by VisitScotland to celebrate Scotland's live music scene and Glasgow's new title of UNESCO City of Music. Beecake released the EP Please Stay on 4 June 2012. The music video for the song "Please Stay" from the EP was released to coincide with the release of the EP. The song's music video was directed by Michael Ferns, a graduate from the RSAMD where Boyd himself graduated. The group released their second album Blue Sky Paradise in December 2012. The band released a second EP titled Just B in July 2013. In 2014, 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. He topped a list of the 100 Most Eligible Men in Scotland in 2002. He owns a house in Glasgow with his wife, Alison McKinnon. The couple had their first child, a boy named Jack William Boyd, on 26 April 2006. He and McKinnon were married in a ceremony with 30 guests at Oran Mor in Glasgow's West End on 29 December 2010. The wedding was attended by castmates Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan. A reception was held afterwards for about 130 guests. 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. The other actors of "The Fellowship" (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, and Orlando Bloom) got the same tattoo with the exception of John Rhys Davies whose stunt double got the tattoo instead. He remains close with The Lord of the Rings co star Dominic Monaghan. Monaghan revealed in an interview for the national breakfast television show GMTV that he continues to see Boyd on a regular basis, as he is "essentially, kind of, godfather to his kid." Boyd and Monaghan co host the podcast ‘The Friendship Onionʼ together. Boyd is one of the patrons of Scottish Youth Theatre, Scotland's National Theatre 'for and by' young people. He is also the patron of the National Boys' Choir of Scotland.

In 2008, 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. In an interview about the campaign with The Scotsman on 28 July 2008, he said: "I don't really do much promotional stuff but felt that with this one I could be honest I'm very proud of where I come from and I get very excited if a friend comes over and I can show them around."

Year Title Role Notes 1996 Taggart Jamie Holmes Episode: "Dead Man's Chest" 1999 Coming Soon Ross Miniseries 2002 Still Game Bearded Man Episode: "Faimly" 2004 Instant Credit Frankie Short television film 2008 Empty Tony 6 episodes 2011 Moby Dick Elijah Miniseries, 2 episodes 2012 Casualty Duncan Jessup Episode: "Hero Syndrome" 2014 Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan Himself Episode: "The Giant Wetapunga" 2015 Motive Lawrence Frampton Episode: "Frampton Comes Alive" 2017 Sofia the First Malachite (voice) Episode: "The Crown of Blossoms" 2017 Snowfall Jim Stewart Episode: "Baby Teeth" 2017 The Simpsons Himself (voice) Episode: "The Serfsons" 2019 Grey's Anatomy Seamus Episode: "I Walk the Line" 2018, 2020 Outlander Gerald Forbes 4 episodes 2020 Hollywood Noël Coward Episode: "Outlaws" 2021 Doom Patrol Samuelson Episode: “Vacay Patrol” 2022 NCIS: Hawai'i Colin McIntyre Episode: “Ohana” 2022Chucky G. G. Valentine (voice) Episode: "Chucky Actually" 2023The Legend of Vox Machina Garmelie (voice) 2023That's My Jam Himself