Boyd Holbrook
Birthdate: Sep 1, 1981
Birthplace: Prestonsburg, Kentucky, USA
After a career as a model, Boyd Holbrook (birthname: Robert Boyd Holbrook) became an actor after training in New York, and landed a role in Gus Van Sant’s Harvey Milk biopic, Milk (2008), with Sean Penn, after submitting a screenplay to Van Sant. Three years later, Holbrook joined director-star Vera Farmiga in her directorial debut, Higher Ground (2011), followed by the action movie, The Reunion (2011), with John Cena, Ethan Embry, and Amy Smart, and Rob Reiner’s inspirational drama, The Magic of Belle Isle (2012), with Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen.
Holbrook joined another major director—Andrew Niccol—for the science fiction drama, The Host (2013), with Saoirse Ronan, Frances Fisher, and William Hurt. Holbrook maintained a busy acting schedule with major names in 2013 and 2014 with Scott Cooper’s intense drama, Out of the Furnace (2013), produced by Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio and starring Christian Bale.
Boyd Holbrook was part of the ensemble of the Sundance-prize-winning The Skeleton Twins (2014), with Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig, and another Sundance premiere, Sara Colangelo’s Little Accidents (2014), with Elizabeth Banks, Chloe Sevigny, and Josh Lucas. Holbrook’s other 2014 films included writer-director Naomi Foner’s Very Good Girls, with Elizabeth Olsen and Dakota Fanning; Scott Frank’s crime drama, A Walk Among the Tombstones, with Liam Neeson; climaxing with his casting in David Fincher’s acclaimed adaptation of the Gillian Flynn best-seller, Gone Girl, with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike.
Boyd Holbrook once again joined Liam Neeson for the crime movie, Run All Night (2015), and then appeared in his first starring role in Jason Lew’s Sundance-premiering The Free World (2016), with Elisabeth Moss and Octavia Spencer. Holbrook ventured into Western territory with the feminist-themed Jane Got a Gun (2016), with Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton, Noah Emmerich, and Ewan McGregor, followed by the science fiction thriller, Morgan (2016), with Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Paul Giamatti; James Mangold’s acclaimed X-Men spinoff, Logan (2017), with Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant; and the 2018 HBO prison drama (with Holbrook as one of the producers), The O.G., starring Jeffrey Wright.
Boyd Holbrook’s next starring role was in Shane Black’s The Predator (2018), the fourth edition of the Predator franchise, with Jacob Tremblay, Keegan Michael-Key, and Sterling K. Brown; Holbrook also starred in Jim Mickle’s science fiction thriller, In the Shadow of the Moon (2019), with Michael C. Hall; once again, Holbrook starred in the Sundance-premiering horror film, The Cursed (2021), with Kelly Reilly. For the Greece-based thriller, Beckett (2021), Holbrook joined John David Washington, Vicky Krieps, and Alicia Vikander; he was then cast opposite co-star and writer-director B.J. Novak for the black comedy, Vengeance (2022), with Nova, Dove Cameron, and Issa Rae.
Holbrook’s next major projects include the James Mangold-directed (untitled) Indiana Jones movie, with Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen, Toby Jones, and Antonio Banderas; and one of his few streaming/cable productions, the anticipated Justified follow-up, currently identified as The Untitled Elmore Leonard Adaptation (2023), starring Timothy Olyphant, Marin Ireland, Aujanue Ellis, and Vondie Curtis-Hall.
Personal Details
Born in the eastern Kentucky town of Prestonburg, Boyd Holbrook was raised by parents Don and Ellen Holbrook. Boyd Holbrook studied the Sanford Meisner acting program at the William Esper Studio in Manhattan, as well as filmmaking at New York University. He was in a relationship with actor Elizabeth Olson and was engaged to her from March 2014 to January 2015, when they broke off the relationship. Holbrook is married to Tatiana Pajkovic; the couple has one child, Leon. His height is 6’ 2”.
Filmography
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- 2024 | A Complete UnknownasJohnny Cash
A Complete Unknown
At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, a young Bob Dylan shakes up his act on the folk music scene by going electric and siring rock as the voice of a generation - defining one of the most transformative moments in 20th century music.
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- 2024 | The BikeridersasCal
The Bikeriders
After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the...
- 2023 | Indiana Jones and the Dial of DestinyasKlaber
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.
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- 2022 | The CursedasJohn McBride
The Cursed
In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger - and exorcise some of his own demons in the process.
- 2021 | Beckettas Tynan
- 2019 | In the Shadow of the Moonas Locke
- 2019 | Two/Oneas Kaden
- 2018 | O.G.as Pinkins
- 2018 | The Thirstas Ardis Varnado
- 2018 | The PredatorasQuinn McKenna
The Predator
When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
- 2017 | Boomtownas Dustin
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- 2016 | Cardboard Boxeras Pinky
- 2016 | The Free Worldas Mohamed Lundy
- 2014 | A Walk Among the Tombstonesas Peter Kristo
- 2014 | Little Accidentsas Amos Jenkins
- 2014 | A Walk mong the TombstonesasPeter Kristo
A Walk mong the Tombstones
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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- 2007 | Last Mealsas Reed
Some Facts About Boyd Holbrook
Discovery: While working as a carpenter at a Kentucky theater, Boyd Holbrook was discovered by a talent agent for a modeling agency.
Cutting Room Floor: Holbrook was cast by filmmaker Terrence Malick in his feature about the music business, Song to Song (2017), but his performance was trimmed from the release cut.
Multi-talented: Among his talents, add photography, sculpture, and poetry to Boyd Holbrook’s list. His poetry has been published, and his sculptures have been exhibited at the Rare Gallery in Manhattan.
