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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Boyd, Billy
Scotland. Billy was born in Glasgow. In 2002, he was voted as Scotland’s most eligible bachelor, in a poll by Scotland's national newspaper. Billy has said that "Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It’s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing."
1968. He was born to William and Mary Boyd. His father worked at a brewery, and his mother was a clerk at a car hire firm. Billy also has an older sister named Margaret.
| Which acting school did Billy graduate from? | Billy Boyd!
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Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He graduated in 1995 with a Diploma in Dramatic Arts. The other three schools on the list are where some of his "Lord of the Rings" co-stars went to school (Ian Holm and Sean Bean graduated from RADA which is in London, Orlando Bloom graduated from Guildhall, and Miranda Otto and Hugo Weaving both graduated from Australia’s NIDA).
| Well over half of the professional plays that Billy has been in were for one theater company in particular. Which theater company has he done most of his theater work for? | Billy Boyd!
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Edinburgh Royal Lyceum. Of the choices given, the only possible correct answer is the Edinburgh Royal Lyceum, because Billy has never acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company (which is in Warwickshire in central England) or the Auckland Theater Company (which is in New Zealand). The Byre Theater is a tiny, informal theater that Billy has not acted in since graduating from school. He was only in 2 plays there, they were both as part of his schooling, and he has not shown any signs of wanting to go back to work at the Byre. It is extremely unlikely that the answer to this question will change anytime soon, since Billy only does 1 to 2 plays per year (according to his official resume') and his immediate plans are for movies - a scuba diving movie and a voice-over for a horror movie have been announced as his next projects. Even if he were to move to the other side of the U.K. and join the Royal Shakespeare Company, or move to the other side of the planet and join the Auckland Theater Co., it would take several years to equal or surpass the number of plays he has performed for the Edinburgh Lyceum. By 2004, Billy had acted in a total of 17 professional plays. All of them have been in Scotland. The plays Billy has acted in for the Edinburgh Royal Lyceum include: "Merlin the Magnificent", "The Merchant of Venice", "Calendonia Dreaming", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Hansel and Gretel", "Britannia Rules", "Therese Raquin", "An Experienced Woman Gives Advice", "The Speculator", "The Ballad of Crazy Paola", and "San Diego".
| Internationally, Billy is best known for his work in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Which character did Billy play? | Billy Boyd!
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Pippin. When he got the job, he had never read "The Lord of the Rings" before. He took the job because, as he said, "To play one of the main characters in it, it’s not the kind of thing you don’t do. Oh, I’d rather not play Pippin in 'The Lord of the Rings'... In fact, what else would you rather do, you know? I can’t actually think of another job that I’d rather do." After reading the book for the first time he commented, "I realized that it was just about Pippin and some other people!"
| In 2003, Billy was in the Oscar-winning movie "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World". Which character did he play? | Billy Boyd!
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Barrett Bonden. Bonden is the ship’s coxswain. Among other duties, he is responsible for steering the ship, is in charge of the boat crews (especially the captain’s rowboat), and fights alongside the captain during hand-to-hand combat. In the books that the movie was based on, Bonden even saved the captain’s life once during a pistol fight aboard an enemy ship.
| Up until the end of November 2003, Billy used to have an Internet forum on his official website. From this forum, his fans have adopted a name for themselves. It has been mentioned on various websites and even a few times on television (especially during "Lord of the Rings" related topics) as a name for them. What is the "official" name for Billy’s fans? | Billy Boyd!
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Loons. The name "Loons" originally came from a room on Billy’s official forum called "The Loony Bin". It referred to the silly, random subjects that could be found in the threads of that room. The bottom of every page within the forum used to contain a quote that Billy once said about the contents of his forum; that quote was "Sweet Jesus, I’m feart!" The Grey Panthers are a group of Elijah Wood fans. I made up the other two names. Billy's official website can be found at http://www.billyboyd.net
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