Background
Boyd was born to a Navy family and thus spent much of her life traveling.
Boyd was born to a Navy family and thus spent much of her life traveling.
She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior from the University of California, Davis.
She lived all over the United States as well as Italy and Japan before going to high school in San Diego. She was involved in school musicals from a very early age up through high school, performing in everything from The King and I to Cats. Boyd was a competitive swimmer since the age of 6, eventually competing in the California Interscholastic Federation Swimming and Diving events.
Boyd also has worked as a snowboarding instructor and holds a green belt in hapkido.
Before settling into her career as an actress, she did neuroscience research at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Health. She utilized her science background cohosting the show Machines of Malice as a neuroscience consultant for the Discovery Channel.
Boyd is also a Nickelodeon show favorite, guest starring on the shows iCarly, True Jackson, VP and Big Time Rush. In 2009, Boyd appeared on 14 episodes of the popular webseries The Guild.
In 2010, Boyd co-created the geek girl group Team Unicorn in 2010.
In 2013, Adult Swim announced they would be producing a Team Unicorn television pilot. Boyd"s gaming background has played a large part in her career. She cohosted the series Game Changers, a Top Gear-influenced show testing out video game tropes such as jet packs, parkour and lockpicking in the real world.
She has also modeled for the J!NX gamers clothing line and was named one of GeekWeek.com"s "10 Hottest Geek Girls".
Boyd was also referenced in Diablo III from Blizzard Entertainment as a rare unicorn character named "Mission Hell" alongside other Team Unicorn members. Most recently she starred in Geek Cred, an office comedy set in a comic book store.
Boyd"s most recent feature film "Bar America", directed by Matthew Jacobs, will be premiering at the Catalina Festival in 2014.