Blake Boyd

Blake Boyd enjoys a diverse and rewarding career in film, television and theatre. Equally adept at comedic and dramatic roles, he has appeared in over 70 productions shooting on location in the jungles of the Philippines to the sound stages of Hollywood and in leading roles on the New York stage. His breakthrough role came starring opposite Sinbad in Walt Disney Pictures' "First Kid," showcasing his deft timing as by-the-book Secret Service Agent Dash. He followed with Disney's "Rocketman" and then starred in "Honeymoon" and "Space Marines. " Previously, he worked with "First Kid" director David Mickey Evans on "Beethoven's Third" and has appeared in "The Cable Guy," "Dark Planet," as well as in Roger Corman's features "Raiders of the Sun" and "Dune Warriors. "Most recently, he starred in the films "Lost Girls: Angie's Story", "Out of Time" and the acclaimed "Toto", the latter written and produced by Donald Martin in Manila and which won the Audience Choice Award for Best Film at the 39th Asian American International Film Festival in New York as well as Best Foreign Film at 16th Los Angeles Comedy Film Festival. Blake also stars in numerous short films, including opposite Ming-Na Wen in Anna Chi's "Swimming", in "Fall to Fame", in "The Stanley James Intensive", "Ner Tamid", "The Extraordinary Flight of Atticus Walker and the Monster In His Mind" and in Leslie Zemeckis' "Staar: She'd Rather Be A Mistress", to name but a few. He also voiced a character in Zemeckis' award winning documentary, "Bound By Flesh". Boyd made his directing and producing debut while starring as death-row sociopath Adam Robert Hessig in the short film "Fish," which was well received on the festival circuit. For television, Blake has been invited for guest appearances on major shows such as "Shameless", "Kamen Rider," "Miracles," "The Agency," "ER," "7th Heaven," "V. I. P. ," "News Radio," "The Watcher" and for recurring roles on Netflix's "Messiah" and "Pensacola. "TV movie credits include Lifetime's "Killer Reputation" and "Murder in the Vineyard", "Confessions: Two Faces of Evil," "Saved By the Bell" and "Gunsmoke II. "In addition to voice performances for several video games, Blake was chosen to voice Safety Kid in "Safety Kid On The Net" for Jewish Family Services, and he created the role of Trucker Jim Bob in the animated film sequel "The Brave Little Toaster Goes To School. "On stage, he recently completed a run of Joanne Mosconi's "You Love That I'm Not Your Wife" at The Players Theatre in New York. Prior to that, Blake appeared in almost 200 performances of Brad T. Gottfred's play "Women Are Crazy Because Men Are Assholes" in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Diego and the famed Cherry Lane Theater in New York. Blake also starred in the world premiere stage production of "The Death of Reason" in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. On the Los Angeles stage, he earned excellent reviews at the acclaimed Odyssey Theatre as John F. Kennedy in Peter Lefcourt's "The Death and Life of Mary Jo Kopechne", and in Grant Woods' "The Things We Do". He also appeared in Odyssey productions, as Burton in "Burn This" and in Dorothy Lyman's "A Month in the Country.