Billy Boyd
Billy Boyd (born 28 August 1968) is a Scottish actor and musician most widely known for playing the character Peregrin “Pippin” Took in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Barrett Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.
Aside from his musical aspirations, Boyd is an avid surfer, since his time spent surfing in New Zealand during the production for Lord of the Rings. He also holds a Grade 7 in foil fencing and a Phase 4 rank in both Jeet Kune Do and Filipino Kali.
He currently owns a house in Glasgow with his fiancee, Ali McKinnon. On 26 April 2006, he and McKinnon welcomed their first child, son Jack William Boyd.
Boyd has a tattoo of the Elvish word for “nine”, 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 Lord of the Rings co-star Dominic Monaghan and they have written a script together but at the moment there are no plans for it to be made.
Boyd is one of the patrons of Scottish Youth Theatre, Scotland’s National Theatre ‘for and by’ young people.
Boyd is also the Patron of the National Boys Choir of Scotland.
Billy fronts a band called Beecake. See Myspace. As well as topping some of the international MySpace charts, the band was recently awarded VisitScotland’s award for Best Live Act at the Tartan Clef Music Awards. The award was created by VisitScotland to celebrate Scotland’s great live music scene and Glasgow’s new title of UNESCO City of Music. The Tartan Clef Music Awards raise money for Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy in Scotland – a charity which uses music to bring joy into the lives of children and adults who have been isolated by disability, trauma or illness.
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