John Boyd (actor)
John H. Boyd (born October 22, 1981) is an American actor.
He is best known for his starring role in Season 8 of the series 24. He also starred in the Academy Award winning film Argo (2012) and, as of 2014, stars as FBI Special Agent James Aubrey on the long-running Fox series Bones, beginning with the show's 10th season.
Early life
Boyd was born in New York City, New York on October 22, 1981, son of character actor Guy Boyd and brother of actress Pauline Boyd. He is an alumnus of Bennington College.
Career
Boyd began his acting career in 2005, appearing in short films and various minor roles in film, guest-starring on an episode of Law & Order in 2005; Boyd returned to the show in 2006 but as a different character. In 2010, he was cast in his first starring role on television in the eighth and final season of the Fox series 24 as Arlo Glass.
Following the cancellation of 24, Boyd guest-starred in Suits and was scheduled to be cast as Todd in a new Fox pilot Iceland in 2011, but the show was not picked up by the network. Boyd co-starred in the 2012 Academy Award winning film Argo with Ben Affleck and Bryan Cranston. In 2013, he guest-starred on the short-lived Touch, which reunited Boyd and Kiefer Sutherland.
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John Boyd (sound engineer)
John Boyd is an American sound engineer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.
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John Boyd (Connecticut politician)
John Boyd (March 17,1799 – December 1, 1881) was an American politician who served as a Connecticut state legislator and the Secretary of State of Connecticut.
Boyd, son of James and Mary (Munro) Boyd, of the borough of Winsted, in the town of Winchester, Conn., was born March 17,1799. After graduating from Yale College in 1821, he studied law in New Haven, with Messrs. Staples and Hitchcock, and was admitted to the bar in 1825.
He settled in his native town as an iron manufacturer, retiring from business in 1853, and was also largely occupied with public trusts. He was a representative in the Connecticut General Assembly of the State in 1830 and 1835, and a member of the Connecticut State Senate in 1854. For fifteen years he was Judge of Probate, and for twenty-six years Town Clerk of his native town. He was Secretary of State in 1859, 1860, and 1861.
In 1873 he published the Annals and Family Records of Winchester (octavo, pp. 632), a laborious work.
He was married, in New Haven, May 17, 1831, to Emily W., daughter of Elias Beers, who died November 25, 1842, at the age of 37, leaving three children, of whom one daughter only survived him. He next married, December 10, 1843, Jerusha, daughter of Solomon Rockwell, and widow of the Hon. Theodore Hinsdale, of Winsted, who died March 11, 1875, aged 72 years. He died in West Winsted, in Winchester, December 1, 1881, in his 83rd year.
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