Jim Boyd was a weekend, early morning and midday news anchor and reporter for WCVB-TV.

His grandfather Arthur Leroy Boyd was first violinist in the Negro String Quartet[2] that performed with singer Roland Hayes at New York's Carnegie Hall on November 27, 1925.

In 2013 after graduating from Tufts, Boyd began acting in television series and motion pictures as an extra or background performer.

Projects to date include: American Hustle, The Equalizer, The Judge, The Forger, Olive Kitteridge, Unfinished Business, Black Mass, Ted 2, and Spotlight.

Boyd received a Golden Circle award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences New England chapter in 2011[8] and was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2012.