Darren Boyd | |
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Born | Darren John Boyd 30 January 1971 |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1998–present |
Spouse | Amanda Ashy Boyd (m. 2004;div. 2017) |
Children | 2 |
Darren John Boyd (born 30 January 1971) is a British actor who starred in the Sky 1 series Spy , for which he won BAFTA TV Award for Best Male Comedy Performance. [1] His work in television and film spans comedy and drama.
Boyd was born in Hastings, Sussex. [2] He was drawn to acting at the age of 16, in local theatre productions. [3]
Boyd co-starred in the BBC comedy Kiss Me Kate (1998), [3] which ran for three years. This led to starring roles in British comedies such as Hippies (1999), and worked with Simon Pegg in Smack the Pony (1999). [3] In 2001, he worked with Victoria Pile on a new series Los Dos Bros , an off-beat sitcom exploring physical comedy and the relationship between Boyd and Cavan Clerkin as the titular (half-)brothers. Boyd was co-creator and co-writer. The show won a silver rose at Montreux in 2002. During this time Boyd starred alongside Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the NBC series, Watching Ellie . [2]
Boyd returned to the UK in 2005 and took on characters such as Dr. Jake Leaf in the second series of Green Wing (2006), and as Jonathan in Steve Coogan's Saxondale . In 2009, he appeared in the two-part adaptation of May Contain Nuts, based on John O'Farrell's best-selling novel, Personal Affairs for BBC Three and Royal Wedding (2010), [2] which follows the 1981 Royal Wedding through the perspective of events held in a small Welsh mining village, written by BAFTA winner Abi Morgan and starring Jodie Whittaker. [2]
Boyd starred as Bib in the BBC series Whites and co-starred in the BBC Four drama Dirk Gently playing Dirk Gently's business partner Richard MacDuff. The BBC announced in June 2011 that Boyd would play the role of John Cleese in Holy Flying Circus , [4] a 90-minute dramatisation of the controversy that arose when Monty Python's Life of Brian was released in 1979. [4]
From 2011–2013, Boyd starred in the Sky 1 series Spy [5] which won him BAFTA Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance. [1] [6] He also starred in two ITV dramas, Case Sensitive , a series adapted from Sophie Hannah's novel Point of Rescue alongside Olivia Williams and three-part drama The Guilty . [2]
In 2014, Boyd was reunited with his Watching Ellie costar Julia Louis-Dreyfus in a guest appearance on her HBO series Veep in the episode "Special Relationship". [2]
Boyd was part of the ensemble cast of Sky Atlantic drama series Fortitude , [2] which premiered simultaneously in the UK and US in early 2015 playing Markus Huseklepp. Following Fortitude, Boyd briefly returned to comedy in the lead role of Matthew Bunting in the ITV situation comedy The Delivery Man . [2]
In 2016, he returned to television with two dramatic roles. He appeared opposite Idris Elba in the fourth series of Luther , [2] and James Nesbitt in Stan Lee's Lucky Man . [4]
In early 2018, Boyd played Frank Haleton in the British BBC drama series Killing Eve . [2] In late 2019, Boyd provided the voice of Mr. Brown in The Adventures of Paddington which began airing on the Nick Jr. Channel in early 2020. [2]
He played Supt. Dave Minty in the 2020 BBC drama, The Salisbury Poisonings . [7]
Notable cameos include an evangelical vicar in Rev. and an ex-athlete named Dave Wellbeck in BBC's Olympics mockumentary Twenty Twelve . [2]
In 2021, Boyd starred alongside Christopher Walken in the BBC series The Outlaws . [8]
Feature films in which Boyd has appeared include High Heels and Low Lifes (2002), Imagine Me & You (2005), Magicians (2007), [2] Chris Morris' Four Lions (2010), The World's End (2013), [2] Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013), Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor (2017) and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019). [8]
Boyd starred as a reluctant arms dealer in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Safety Catch . [9] He also co-starred in ElvenQuest , another Radio 4 sitcom, as Vidar the Elf Lord. In 2018, he appeared as a major suspect in the Radio 4 drama, A Small Town Murder.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2001 | High Heels and Low Lifes | Ray | |
2005 | Imagine Me & You | Cooper | |
2007 | Magicians | Otto Johnson | |
2010 | Four Lions | Sniper | |
2011 | Spoon | Daniel Spoon | |
2011 | Holy Flying Circus | John Cleese | |
2012 | Asylum Seekers | Mike | Short film |
2013 | The World's End | Shane Hawkins | |
2013 | Underdogs | Amadeo (voice) | UK version |
2013 | Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa | Detective Sergeant Martin Finch | American title: Alan Partridge |
2014 | The Longest Drive | Man | Short film |
2016 | Bridget Jones's Baby | Jeremy | |
2017 | Journey Beyond Sodor | Theo (voice) | UK & US versions |
2019 | The Personal History of David Copperfield | Edward Murdstone | |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1998–2000 | Kiss Me Kate | Craig Chapman | 22 episodes |
1999–2003 | Smack the Pony | Various characters | 26 episodes |
1999 | Hippies | Hugo Yemp | 6 episodes |
2002–2003 | Watching Ellie | Ben | 16 episodes |
2003 | Little Robots | Additional Voices (voice) | Unknown episodes |
2006 | Green Wing | Jake Leaf | 5 episodes |
2008 | Little Dorrit | Tite Barnacle Junior | 4 episodes |
2010 | Whites | Bib | 6 episodes |
2010–2012 | Dirk Gently | Richard MacDuff | 4 episodes |
2011 | Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge | Daniel Langford | 3 episodes |
2011 | Twenty Twelve | Dave Wellbeck | Episode: "Raising The Bar" |
2011–2012 | Spy | Tim Elliot | Lead Role |
2015–2018 | Fortitude | Markus Husekleppe | 18 episodes |
2015 | The Delivery Man | Matthew Bunting | 6 episodes |
2015 | Luther | DCI Theo Bloom | Series 4 Episode 1 |
2016–2018 | Stan Lee’s Lucky Man | Detective Sergeant Steve Orwell | Series 1–3 |
2016 | National Treasure | Hamish | Episode: "#1.4" |
2018 | Killing Eve | Frank Haleton | 5 episodes |
2019 | Flack | Jeremy | Episode: "Brooke" |
2020–present | The Adventures of Paddington | Mr. Brown (voice) | |
2020–present | Trying | Scott | |
2020 | The Salisbury Poisonings | Supt. Dave Minty | TV series |
2021–present | The Outlaws | John | 2 series filming back to back |
TBA | We Might Regret This | Abe | In production [10] |
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