About Guest

Billy Boyd was born in Glasgow, Scotland where he began his acting and music career. Billy graduated from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where he is now a Fellow. Throughout his artistic life Billy has focused on both acting and music (composing, playing and singing).

His initial acting career began on the Scottish stage at St. Andrews Repertory where Billy played in their production of The Slab Boys and followed to play the title role in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole. Since then he has performed in many contemporary plays such as Trainspotting, Widows, Kill the Old Torture their Young and several Shakespearean including playing Banquo in Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater in London, followed by the film.

In the fall of 1998 Billy was cast in the role of Pippin in Peter Jackson’s Trilogy of Lord Of The Rings. The New Line Cinema’s Trilogy shot over 18 months in New Zealand with The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and finally The Return of the King (2003). He also wrote and performed the song Edge of Night in Return of the King in a dramatic sequence with John Noble.

When Peter Jackson shot the Hobbit Trilogy he brought Billy back to write and perform the closing song for the Trilogy The Last Goodbye which was played over the final credits of The Hobbit: The Battle Of Five Armies.

Billy Also has 3 albums and an EP with the band Beecake.

Billy has gone on to work in may films and TV projects. Some of his television appearances have been Moby Dick, The Simpsons, Grey’s Anatomy, Outlander, Hollywood (Playing Noel Coward) and Doom Patrol. Billy did a guest role in Motive where he was nominated for a Canadian Academy Award.

To name a few of the Motion Pictures he has starred in: Peter Weir’s Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World, with Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany; Stone of Destiny with Robert Carlyle and Kate Mara; Forger with Alfred Molina, Hayden Panettiere and Lauren Bacall; and The Flying Scotsman with Jonny Lee Miller and Brian Cox. Walking With Herb with Edward James Olmos, George Lopez, and Kathleen Quinlan. Last year Billy played Guildenstern in a sold-out run of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead on stage with Dom Monaghan and has lately been filming Washington Black in the role of Willard for Disney, and Season 6 of For All Mankind for Apple TV.