Darren John Boyd <!-- Valid citation required for date of birth for BLP. (WP:BLPPRIVACY) --> is an English actor. He starred in the Sky One series Spy, for which he won the 2012 BAFTA TV Award for Best Male Comedy Performance. His work in television and film spans comedy and drama.
Early life
Boyd was born in Hastings, Sussex, and began acting at the age of 16, in local theatre productions.
Career
Television
Boyd co-starred in the BBC comedy Kiss Me Kate (1998),
From 2011 to 2013, Boyd starred in the Sky One series Spy, which won him BAFTA Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance, and 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.
Cameos include an evangelical vicar in Rev. and ex-athlete Dave Wellbeck in BBC Olympics mockumentary Twenty Twelve.
Film
Boyd has appeared in feature films including High Heels and Low Lifes (2002), Imagine Me & You (2005), Magicians (2007), He co-starred in ElvenQuest, another Radio 4 sitcom, as Vidar the Elf Lord. In 2018, he appeared as a suspect in the Radio 4 drama, A Small Town Murder.
Filmography
Film
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!Year
!Title
!Role
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| 2001
| High Heels and Low Lifes
| Ray
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| 2005
| Imagine Me & You
| Cooper
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| 2007
| Magicians
| Otto Johnson
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| 2010
| Four Lions
| Sniper
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| rowspan="2"|2011
| Spoon
| Daniel Spoon
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| Holy Flying Circus
| John Cleese
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| 2012
| Asylum Seekers
| Mike
| Short film
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| rowspan="3"|2013
| The World's End
| Shane Hawkins
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| Underdogs
| Amadeo (voice)
| UK version
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| Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
| Detective Sergeant Martin Finch
| American title: Alan Partridge
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| 2014
| The Longest Drive
| Man
| Short film
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| 2016
| Bridget Jones's Baby
| Jeremy
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| 2017
| Journey Beyond Sodor
| Theo (voice)
| UK and U.S. versions
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| 2019
| The Personal History of David Copperfield
| Edward Murdstone
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Television
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!Year
!Title
!Role
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| 1998–2000
| Kiss Me Kate
| Craig Chapman
| 22 episodes
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| 1999
| Hippies
| Hugo Yemp
| 6 episodes
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| 1999–2003
| Smack the Pony
| Various characters
| 26 episodes
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| 2002–2003
| Watching Ellie
| Ben
| 16 episodes
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| 2003
| Little Robots
| Additional Voices (voice)
| Unknown episodes
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| 2006
| Green Wing
| Jake Leaf
| 5 episodes
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| 2008
| Little Dorrit
| Tite Barnacle Junior
| 4 episodes
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| 2010
| Whites
| Bib
| 6 episodes
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| 2010–2012
| Dirk Gently
| Richard MacDuff
| 4 episodes
|-
| rowspan="2"|2011
| Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
| Daniel Langford
| 3 episodes
|-
| Twenty Twelve
| Dave Wellbeck
| Episode: "Raising The Bar"
|-
| 2011–2012
| Spy
| Tim Elliot
| Lead role
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| 2014
| Warren United
| Warren Kingsley (voice)
| 6 episodes
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| 2014
| Veep
| Peter Mitchell
| Season 3, episode 7
|-
| rowspan="2"|2015
| The Delivery Man
| Matthew Bunting
| 6 episodes
|-
| Luther
| DCI Theo Bloom
| Series 4, episode 1
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| 2015–2018
| Fortitude
| Markus Husekleppe
| 18 episodes
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| 2016
| National Treasure
| Hamish
| Episode: "#1.4"
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| 2016–2018
| Stan Lee’s Lucky Man
| Detective Sergeant Steve Orwell
| Series 1–3
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| 2018
| Killing Eve
| Frank Haleton
| 5 episodes
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| 2019
| Flack
| Jeremy
| Episode: "Brooke"
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| 2020
| The Salisbury Poisonings
| Supt. Dave Minty
| TV series
|-
|2020
|Soulmates
|Peter
|Episode 1
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| 2020–2025
| The Adventures of Paddington
| Mr. Brown (voice)
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|-
| 2020–present
| Trying
| Scott
|24 episodes
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| 2021–2024
| The Outlaws
| John
| 17 episodes
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| 2024–present
| We Might Regret This
| Abe
| 10 episodes
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| 2025
| Down Cemetery Road
| C.
|8 episodes
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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.
- 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.