Linda Boyd - a famous Canadian personality, is a universal performer with an extensive list of titles in the field of television, cinema, theater and choreography. The career of the actress has more than thirty years of work. Most famous for the role of Rose Miller, the wife of the protagonist - private investigator Malachi Doyle, in the Canadian comedy-drama television series Republic of Doyle, for which in 2010 she was nominated for the Gemini Award in the category "Best Actress in an Continuing Leading Dramatic Role".
Biography
Linda was born January 28, 1965 in the largest port city of Canada - Vancouver. She was the youngest of eight children. As a child, Boyd attended Studio 58, a professional theater school in Vancouver, but quickly left it because she was not comfortable with her teaching methods.
In 1991, she lived for some time in the capital of Japan - Tokyo, making a living by playing jingles and working in a bar called "Maggie's Revenge", which belonged to a native of Australia with that name. In the spring of 1992, when Linda Boyd returned home to visit her relatives, an accident happened to her. Playing basketball in Oppenheimer Park, she broke her ankle. After the fracture, the actress changed her mind about going back to Japan.
In March 1994, her older sister Heather died of AIDS, and Boyd decided to adopt her son, his nephew. But the reality was that Linda was going to raise her sister's son, but could not overcome her grief after her death. Boyd was forced to seek professional help, and she was prescribed medication and therapy.
Carier start
The future famous actress began her career by voicing characters for the English-language versions of the Japanese anime series "Ikkoku Maison" and "Project A-Ko." Then she received her first episodic roles in the prime time science fiction television series: Highlander, Millennium, and The X-Files. In the latter, she played a woman who suffered from a mutant killer with the ability to control fire.
In 1998, Linda Boyd played the role of Mrs. Lucille Strick in the teenage horror film "Obscene Behavior" about a group of high school students who are trying to unravel the mysterious transformation of school bullies into ideal students after attending the blue ribbon program conducted by psychologist Caldicott. The film starred even young future famous actors Katie Holmes, James Marsden and Nick Steel.
Movies with Linda Boyd
This was followed by filming in the science fiction film "Mission to Mars" directed by Brian De Palma and the comedy "I am a Spy" with Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson, based on the eponymous series of the sixties. From 1998 to 1999, Boyd was involved in the Canadian supernatural drama series Raven: Stairway to Heaven, the plot of which is based on the comic strip Raven.
Throughout her acting career, the actress starred in a huge number of films, the most significant of them: the drama "Unfinished Life" with Jennifer Lopez, the youth comedy "She is a Man", the family film "Ramona and Bizus" and the fantastic drama "Age of Adalin." Linda Boyd also starred in the main cast of many famous series, such as Falcon Beach, Shelter and Arrow.
In 2017, she played the role of Randy, the owner of a bar in the British-Canadian criminal series Steel Star, starring Tim Roth about a former London policeman who moved with his family to a small town in Canada to work as police chief.
Return to the theater
In 2018, Linda Boyd, who had not yet been attractive in her photos and in her life, took the stage for the first time in fourteen years to play in the play “Marion Bridge” by Daniel Makivor. The three strongest actresses: the student, Nicola Cavendish and Beatrice Zeilinger, portray the sisters. Agnes is a ruined actress from Toronto. Teresa is a nun who questions her faith. Louise is an eccentric woman who has never left home and has lived all her life with her mother, a lover of television soap operas. The sisters gathered in the kitchen in the parental home to cope with the fact that their mother was dying, and once and for all to get rid of the accumulated grievances.
