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Jul 19, 2021 · Lynda Boyd, who played Lilly in Virgin River, reveals how she felt about her tragic storyline and how it affected her in real life. She also shares her memories of working with her friends and co-stars on the show.
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Jul 16, 2021 · Lynda Boyd, who plays Lilly on Netflix's hit show Virgin River, reveals how her character's cancer journey mirrors her own loss of two siblings to the disease. She also shares how she coped with the emotional trauma of cancer and how the show spreads awareness of pancreatic cancer.
Jul 13, 2021 · Virgin River is a sleepy town in Northern California where Mel Monroe (Alexandra Breckenridge) went on Season 1 of Netflix’s Virgin River to escape her grief. Little did she know, grief finds residents there, too. The town’s farmer, Lilly (Lynda Boyd) is a particularly tragic victim of her circumstances.
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Jul 16, 2021 · Virgin River: Lynda Boyd as Lilly (Image: NETFLIX) Virgin River: Lilly with daughter Tara (Image: NETFLIX) Sadly, Lilly had died in her sleep and her funeral was featured in the next...
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The gentle and affable Canadian actress has an extensive stage, TV and movie career, counting Jennifer Lopez, Owen Wilson and Victor Garber among the many stars with whom she’s shared scenes. On Virgin River,Boyd’s friendships with some of her co-stars go way back; she took tap dance lessons with Teryl Rothery, who plays Muriel, when they were teen...
While Boyd talks, her little 13-year-old mutt, Milo, joins her on the Zoom screen. Boyd returns to talking about cancer and how her brother, Steve, died seven years ago. "I was living in Newfoundland at the time. I flew home for the weekend because his son was getting married, and he died on the wedding day, so the wedding was canceled." It almost ...
The one-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is just 9% (a fact that Trebek shared during an episode of Jeopardy!), and Trebek beating the odds by passing that milestone inspired so many others that their fights are not over. In addition to discussing symptoms he experienced (which he also shared on the game show and ended up helping a man catc...
Although pancreatic cancer survival rates have been improving for decades, it's still considered to be one of the most difficult diseases to successfully treat. An exception to this is if the tumor is still small enough and localized enough to be operated on. Most pancreatic cancers are particularly aggressive and progress rapidly, and that's why i...
Actress: Virgin River. Lynda Boyd was born in Vancouver and is a versatile triple threat with an extensive stage, television, film and animation career. Over the years, Lynda has played Diane Keaton's best friend, Leslie Nielsen's wife, Owen Wilson's confidante and Jennifer Lopez's boss.
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Jul 19, 2021 · We’re talking about Lilly, played to heartbreaking perfection by Lynda Boyd, who reveals at the end of Episode 2 that she’s been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. For the next six...
