Personal Life
Aside from his musical aspirations, Boyd is an avid surfer, and spent his free time surfing in New Zealand during the production for Lord of the Rings. He also holds a Grade 7 in foil fencing. He trained in martial arts at the Krauseworld Academy in Glasgow under brothers Steve Krause and Mike Krause where he achieved Phase 4 rank in both Jeet Kune Do and Filipino Kali.
He owns a house in Glasgow with his partner, Alison McKinnon. They had their first child, Jack William Boyd, on 26 April 2006, and he and McKinnon were married in a small ceremony of only 30 guests at Oran Mor in Glasgow's West End on December 29, 2010. The wedding was attended by fellow cast mates Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan. A reception was held after for about 130 guests.
Boyd has a tattoo of the English word "nine" written with the Tengwar script, 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 are writing a script together but at the moment there are no plans for it to be made. Dominic revealed in an interview for the national breakfast television show GMTV that he continues to see Billy on a regular basis, as he is 'essentially, kind of, godfather to his kids'.
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.
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