Michele Boyd
Encyclopedia
Michele Catherine Boyd is an American
actress best known for her recurring work as Riley on the web-series The Guild
.
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 at Snow Summit
Resort at Big Bear Mountain and holds a green belt in hapkido
.
She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior from the University of California, Davis
. Before settling into her career as an actress, she did neuroscience
research at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Health.
, Hewlett-Packard
and many others. Several performances in short and independent films in New York City
led to her moving to Los Angeles
to more fully pursue a career in film and television.
She landed roles on shows such as Sons of Anarchy
and The Young and the Restless
, as well as using her science background to land a co-hosting job on the Discovery Channel
show Machines of Malice as their neuroscience
consultant. She played Jolene in the "Robots vs. Wrestlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother
. She has most recently landed roles on the Nickelodeon
shows iCarly
and True Jackson, VP
, as well as the ABC
show FlashForward
.
Boyd joined the cast of The Guild in the middle of Season 2 and remained an important supporting character in Season 3. The Guild won the Greenlight Award for Best Original Digital Series Production at the South by Southwest
festivals, the YouTube Video Award
for Best Series, the Yahoo! Video
Award for Best Series, and 2009 Streamy Awards
for Best Comedy Web Series and Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series.
In 2010, Boyd and Milynn Sarley created the G33k & G4m3r Girls parody of Katy Perry
's California Gurls
video, a viral video
which achieved one million views in its first week. They performed the video with award-winning Saber creators Clare Grant
and Rileah Vanderbilt under the group name Team Unicorn
.
United States
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actress best known for her recurring work as Riley on the web-series The Guild
The Guild
The Guild is an American comedy web series created and written by Felicia Day, who also stars as Cyd Sherman . It premiered on YouTube on July 27, 2007. Subsequent webisodes premiered on Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace, Zune Marketplace, and MSN Video. The webisodes were later made available on...
.
Personal background
Boyd was born to a Navy family and thus spent much of her life traveling. She has one younger sister, Allyson Boyd. She was involved in plays and musicals from a very early age up through high school, performing in everything from The King and IThe King and I
The King and I is a stage musical, the fifth by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The work is based on the 1944 novel Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon and derives from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, who became governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in...
to Cats. Boyd was a competitive swimmer since the age of 6, eventually competing in the California Interscholastic Federation
California Interscholastic Federation
The California Interscholastic Federation is the governing body for high school sports in the state of California. It mirrors similar governing bodies in other states; however, it differs from some of the others in that it covers most high schools in the state of California, both public and...
Swimming and Diving events. Boyd also has worked as a snowboarding instructor at Snow Summit
Snow Summit
Snow Summit is a ski resort that was established in 1952 and is in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California. It is located by Big Bear Lake along with its sister resort Bear Mountain; these two resorts which operate under the same management are collectively known as Big Bear Mountain...
Resort at Big Bear Mountain and holds a green belt in hapkido
Hapkido
Hapkido is a dynamic and also eclectic Korean martial art. It is a form of self-defense that employs joint locks, techniques of other martial arts, as well as kicks, punches, and other striking attacks...
.
She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior from the University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
. Before settling into her career as an actress, she did neuroscience
Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...
research at Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Health.
Career
Boyd took up acting again while she was living on the East Coast after finishing college. She pursued modeling alongside an acting career, booking ads for Coca-ColaCoca-Cola
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke...
, Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
and many others. Several performances in short and independent films in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
led to her moving to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
to more fully pursue a career in film and television.
She landed roles on shows such as Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy
Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series created by Kurt Sutter about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in Northern California...
and The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
, as well as using her science background to land a co-hosting job on the Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
show Machines of Malice as their neuroscience
Neuroscience
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics,...
consultant. She played Jolene in the "Robots vs. Wrestlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
. She has most recently landed roles on the Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (TV channel)
Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
shows iCarly
ICarly
iCarly is an American sitcom that focuses on a girl named Carly Shay who creates her own web show called iCarly with her best friends Sam and Freddie. The series was created by Dan Schneider, who also serves as executive producer. It stars Miranda Cosgrove as Carly, Jennette McCurdy as Sam, Nathan...
and True Jackson, VP
True Jackson, VP
True Jackson, VP is an American television sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon from November 8, 2008 to August 20, 2011. The series starred Keke Palmer, Ashley Argota, Matt Shively, Danielle Bisutti, Greg Proops, Robbie Amell and Ron Butler. The theme song was written by Toby Gad and Keke Palmer and...
, as well as the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
show FlashForward
Flashforward
A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future...
.
Boyd joined the cast of The Guild in the middle of Season 2 and remained an important supporting character in Season 3. The Guild won the Greenlight Award for Best Original Digital Series Production at the South by Southwest
South by Southwest
South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...
festivals, the YouTube Video Award
YouTube Awards
The YouTube Awards are awards given out as formalizedic or comedy genres, as voted by the YouTube community. The awards were organized in 2007 to "call out some of the most popular videos and let the users choose which ones deserve some additional recognition"...
for Best Series, the Yahoo! Video
Yahoo! Video
Yahoo! Video is a video sharing website on which users could upload and share videos. The service is owned and created by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Video began as an internet-wide video search engine and added the ability to upload and share video clips in June 2006...
Award for Best Series, and 2009 Streamy Awards
Streamy Awards
The Streamy Awards, popularly known as the Streamys, are presented annually by the International Academy of Web Television to recognize excellence in the arts and science of web television production, including directing, acting, producing, and writing. The formal ceremony at which the awards are...
for Best Comedy Web Series and Best Ensemble Cast in a Web Series.
In 2010, Boyd and Milynn Sarley created the G33k & G4m3r Girls parody of Katy Perry
Katy Perry
Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...
's California Gurls
California Gurls
"California Gurls" is an electropop song by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry and is the lead single of her third studio album, Teenage Dream. The song features rapper Snoop Dogg, and was produced by Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Benny Blanco. According to Perry, the song is an answer song to...
video, a viral video
Viral video
A viral video is one that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email...
which achieved one million views in its first week. They performed the video with award-winning Saber creators Clare Grant
Clare Grant
-Career:While at the University of Memphis she met director Craig Brewer who cast her in two indie films in Memphis before casting her in the film Black Snake Moan and later as the lead in his MTV series $5 Cover....
and Rileah Vanderbilt under the group name Team Unicorn
Team Unicorn
Team Unicorn is a multi-media production team formed in Los Angeles, California in 2010. Its members are American actresses and singers Michele Boyd , Clare Grant , Milynn Sarley, and Rileah Vanderbilt . The group released their debut parody song "G33k & G4m3r Girls" a.k.a. the "Geek and Gamer...
.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Incrimination | Elsa Mitchells | |
| 2009 | Cheerleader Massacre II | Janice | Lead |
| Slick | Elsa Mitchells | ||
| The Evolution of Ethan Baskin | Paige | ||
| 2011 | Battle of Los Angeles | Lt. Jean Hendricks | TV movie |
| 3 Musketeers | Aramis | TV movie/Lead |
TV series/Internet productions
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Untold Stories of the E.R. Untold Stories of the E.R. Untold Stories of the E.R. is a docudrama television series which airs on TLC and Discovery Fit & Health.In this program real-life emergency room doctors tell about their most bizarre and puzzling cases. Typically these involve medical sabotage, violently or strangely acting patients,... |
Katey Wilks | |
| 2007 | Diagnosis X Diagnosis X Diagnosis X is a television program on the channel TLC and Discovery Health. The original airdate was July 25, 2007. The series mixes regular actors with actual physicians, illustrating difficult to diagnose medical cases based on real life situations... |
Stephanie Yates | |
| 2008 | The Young and The Restless The Young and the Restless The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin... |
Carol | |
| Sons of Anarchy Sons of Anarchy Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series created by Kurt Sutter about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in Northern California... |
Medical Intern | "Old Bones" / 1 episode | |
| 2009 | Cold Case | Hockey Groupie '80 | "Iced" / 1 episode |
| The Guild - Season 2/3 The Guild The Guild is an American comedy web series created and written by Felicia Day, who also stars as Cyd Sherman . It premiered on YouTube on July 27, 2007. Subsequent webisodes premiered on Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace, Zune Marketplace, and MSN Video. The webisodes were later made available on... |
Riley (Stupid Tall Hot Girl) | 13 episodes | |
| 2010 | FlashForward Flashforward A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future... |
Nurse | "Revelation Zero: Part 2" / 1 episode |
| How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting... |
Jolene | "Robots Vs. Wrestlers / 1 episode | |
| The Guild - Season 4 The Guild The Guild is an American comedy web series created and written by Felicia Day, who also stars as Cyd Sherman . It premiered on YouTube on July 27, 2007. Subsequent webisodes premiered on Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace, Zune Marketplace, and MSN Video. The webisodes were later made available on... |
Riley (Stupid Tall Hot Girl) | 1 episode | |
| True Jackson, VP True Jackson, VP True Jackson, VP is an American television sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon from November 8, 2008 to August 20, 2011. The series starred Keke Palmer, Ashley Argota, Matt Shively, Danielle Bisutti, Greg Proops, Robbie Amell and Ron Butler. The theme song was written by Toby Gad and Keke Palmer and... |
Nicole | "Trapped in Paris" / 1 episode | |
| SOLO: The Series (Season 1) | Rebecca Drizhal | all episodes | |
| 2011 | SOLO: The Series (Season 1) | Rebecca Drizhal | all episodes |
| Big Time Rush Big Time Rush Big Time Rush is a Nickelodeon television series created by Scott Fellows about the Hollywood misadventures of four hockey players from Minnesota—Kendall, Logan, James, and Carlos, after they are selected to form a boy band. The series premiered with an hour-long pilot episode, "Big Time... |
Annie Winters | "Big Time Contest" / 1 episode |
External links
- Michele Boyd Online - official website and blog
- Team Unicorn's YouTube page - The YouTube Channel of Team Unicorn
- Interview with Michele Boyd