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Darren John Boyd (born 30 January 1971)[1] is a British actor who starred in the Sky 1 series Spy, for which he won a BAFTA Award.[2] His work in television and film spans comedy and drama.

Darren Boyd
Born	Darren John Boyd (1971-01-30) 30 January 1971 (age 51) Hastings, Sussex, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1998–present
Spouse	Amanda Ashy Boyd ​ ​ (m. 2004; div. 2017)​
Children	2

Early life

Boyd began acting at age 17 in amateur theatre and performed in local productions from 1989 to 1995. Boyd moved to London in his mid-20s, where he continued to work in theatre until being cast in Kiss Me Kate for the BBC in 1998.[1]

Career

Television

Boyd co-starred in the BBC comedy Kiss Me Kate (1998), which ran for three years. This led to starring roles in British comedies such as Hippies (1999) and Smack the Pony (1999). 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 was cast in the American NBC series, Watching Ellie, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus.^{[citation needed]}

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), 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.^{[citation needed]}

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,[3] a 90-minute dramatisation of the controversy that arose when Monty Python's Life of Brian was released in 1979. Holy Flying Circus was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama.^{[citation needed]}

From 2011–2013, Boyd starred in the Sky 1 series Spy[4] which won him a BAFTA for his performance.[5] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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".^{[citation needed]}

Boyd was part of the ensemble cast of Sky Atlantic drama series Fortitude, 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.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, he returned to television with two dramatic roles. He appeared opposite Idris Elba in the fourth series of Luther for the BBC and James Nesbitt in Stan Lee's Lucky Man, a Sky 1 television series.^{[citation needed]}

In early 2018, Boyd played Frank Haleton in the British BBC drama series Killing Eve.^{[citation needed]}

In late 2019, Boyd provided the voice of Mr. Brown in The Adventures of Paddington which began airing on Nick Jr. in early 2020.

He played Supt. Dave Minty in the 2020 BBC drama, The Salisbury Poisonings.[6]

Notable cameos include an evangelical vicar in Rev. and an ex-athlete named Dave Wellbeck in BBC's Olympics mockumentary Twenty Twelve.

Film

Feature films in which Boyd has appeared include High Heels and Low Lifes (2002), Imagine Me & You (2005), Magicians (2007), Chris Morris' Four Lions (2010), The World's End (2013), Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013), Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor (2017) and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019).

Radio

Boyd starred as a reluctant arms dealer in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Safety Catch.[7] 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.

Personal life

Boyd lives in London.[8]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998–2000	Kiss Me Kate	Craig Chapman	22 episodes
1999–2003	Smack the Pony	Various characters	26 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

Awards and recognition

• Los Dos Bros was winner of a Silver Rose for Best Sitcom at the Montreux Festival in 2002.
• Boyd won the Best TV Comedy Actor award at The British Comedy Awards in 2011.[9]
• Nominated for Best Actor in a comedy at the Royal Television Society Awards, 2012.
• Boyd won the British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2012.[2]

References

External links

• Darren Boyd at IMDb
• Darren Boyd at British Comedy Guide

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