Linda Boyd is a well-known Canadian personality, is a versatile performer with an extensive list of titles in television, film, theater and choreography. The career of the actress has more than thirty years of work. She is best known for her role as Rose Miller, the wife of protagonist Malachy Doyle, in the Canadian comedy-drama television series Republic Doyle, for which she was nominated for a Gemini Award in 2010 in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role category..
Biography
Linda was born on January 28, 1965 in Canada's largest port city, Vancouver. She was the youngest of eight children. As a child, Boyd attended Studio 58, Vancouver's professional theater school, but quickly dropped out after being unhappy with the teaching methods.
In 1991, she lived for some time in the capital of Japan - Tokyo, earning a living playing jingles and working in a bar called "Maggie's Revenge", which was owned by a native of Australia with that name. In the spring of 1992,when Linda Boyd returned home to visit her relatives, she had an accident. While playing basketball at Oppenheimer Park, she broke her ankle. After the fracture, the actress changed her mind about returning back to Japan.
In March 1994, her older sister Heather dies of AIDS, and Boyd decides to adopt her son, his nephew. But the reality was that Linda was going to raise her sister's son, but she could not overcome her grief after her death. Boyd was forced to seek professional help and was put on medication and therapy.
Career start
The future famous actress began her creative career by voicing characters for the English versions of the Japanese anime series "Maison Ikkoku" and "Project A-Ko". Then she received the first episodic roles in prime-time fantasy television series: Highlander, Millennium and The X-Files. In the latter, she played a woman who suffered from a mutant killer with fire control abilities.
In 1998, Linda Boyd played the role of Mrs. Lucille Strick in the teen horror film Indecency, about a group of high school students who try to unravel the mysterious transformation of school bullies into perfect students after attending a blue ribbon program run by psychologist Caldicott. The film starred still young future famous actors Katie Holmes, James Marsden and Nick Stahl.
Films with Linda Boyd
Followed by filming in scientificfantasy film "Mission to Mars" directed by Brian De Palma and the comedy "I Spy" with Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson, based on the 1960s series of the same name. From 1998 to 1999, Boyd starred in The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, a Canadian supernatural drama series based on the comic book The Crow.
Throughout her acting career, the actress starred in a huge number of films, the most significant of them: the drama "An Unfinished Life" with Jennifer Lopez, the youth comedy "She's the Man", the family film "Ramona and Beezus" and the fantasy drama " Age of Adaline. Linda Boyd has also starred in the main cast of many well-known series such as Falcon Beach, The Vault, and Arrow.
In 2017, she played the role of Randy, a bar owner in the British-Canadian crime series Steelstar, starring Tim Roth, about a former London police officer who moves his family to a small town in Canada to work as a police chief.
Return to theater
In 2018, Linda Boyd, who has not yet lost her attractiveness in her age in the photo and in life, took the stage for the first time in fourteen years to play in the play "Marion Bridge" by Daniel MacIvor. The three strongest actresses under study, Nicola Cavendish and Beatrice Zeilinger, portray sisters. Agnes is a broke actress from Toronto. Teresa is a nun who questions her faith. Louise is an eccentric woman who never left home and livedall her life with her mother, lover of television soap operas. The sisters gathered in the kitchen of their parents' house to deal with the fact that their mother was dying and to get rid of the accumulated resentment once and for all.
Private life
The talented Linda Boyd is a secretive person in terms of her personal life. Since she does not talk much about her family, and all information about her can be emphasized from her posts on Twitter. It is only known that she is married and has a son named Milo. On April 20, 2012, Linda posted that her grandson was born.
Among other things, the actress tries to support the victims of AIDS, as her beloved sister Heather once died from the same disease.
