Kyal Marsh

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Kyal Marsh in a January 2006 episode of Neighbours.

Kyal Reese Marsh (born August 16, 1987) is an Australian actor. He was born in South Australia (some sources say in Adelaide, others in Clare). He moved to Melbourne with his family when he was one year old.

He appears in the television soap opera Neighbours, where he plays the regular character Boyd Hoyland, who first featured on the show in June 2002.

Before that he worked as a child model, but Neighbours was his first credited acting role. He attended a private school called Wesley College in Melbourne, but dropped out after year 10 at age 16 1/4. In April 2005, TV Hits magazine published an interview in which he said that he planned to carry on being in Neighbours for at least three more years. However it became known in early 2007 that his contract will not be renewed and that he will finish filming in April 2007. His character Boyd leave the show for the last time in around August 2007. Kyal stated that he had not wished to leave the show, and he intends to look for acting work in the United States or the United Kingdom.

As of April 2006 his girlfriend was optometry student Jessica Zukerman, whom he met two years earlier at a party. (TV Week, April 15-21 2006)

His sister Cobi Marsh was a contestant on Australia's Next Top Model, Cycle 3, yet was eliminated in the first episode.