He has appeared in the films Jack the Giant Slayer and Love's Kitchen, and the television series Rome.

Boardman played Murray Priestman in Drop Dead Gorgeous as well as the drug dealer Jez Quigley in Coronation Street.

[2] In 2014 he played the recurring character of Amerigo Vespucci in Da Vinci's Demons.

In 2013, Boardman and James launched Actor Tribe, an acting school for children and adults in Knutsford.

[6] Due to the success of the programme, an additional school in Heaton Mersey was opened in 2016, with Boardman and his wife, Jennifer, dividing their time between the two locations.