Darren John Boyd is a British actor who starred in the Sky One series Spy, for which he won BAFTA TV Award for Best Male Comedy Performance.
[3] 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.
The BBC announced in June 2011 that Boyd would play the role of John Cleese in Holy Flying Circus,[4] a 90-minute dramatisation of the controversy that arose when Monty Python's Life of Brian was released in 1979.
[2] 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".
[2] Boyd was part of the ensemble cast of Sky Atlantic drama series Fortitude,[2] which premiered simultaneously in the UK and US in early 2015 playing Markus Huseklepp.
[8] Feature films in which Boyd has appeared include High Heels and Low Lifes (2002), Imagine Me & You (2005), Magicians (2007),[2] Chris Morris' Four Lions (2010), The World's End (2013),[2] Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013), Thomas & Friends: Journey Beyond Sodor (2017) and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019).