Billy Boyd

For me Billy Boyd will always be Pippin from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, and specifically that aching, a cappella 'Edge of Night' in The Return of the King. It's a small moment that says everything about how musicality and acting can fuse. He's a Glaswegian who brought genuine warmth and mischief to that role, then kept range alive with Master and Commander and even the Chucky universe. I like that he didn't chase one lane; he's also a musician with the band Beecake. There's something grounded and unpretentious about him that I find easy to admire.

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Name (English)

Billy Boyd

Name (Japanese)

ビリー・ボイド

Reading

びりー・ぼいど

Born

August 28, 1968 (age 58)

Origin

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Occupation

film actor / actor / stand-up comedian / stage actor / television actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Monkey

• Official sitehttps://www.beecake.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/OfficialBeecake
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Boyd
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q276425

Tags

• film actor
• actor
• stand-up comedian

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.