Portrait of Lucy Boynton

Lucy Boynton

Acting

Biography

Lucy Boynton (born January 17, 1994) is a British actress. Her first professional role was as the young Beatrix Potter in Miss Potter (2006), for which she was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actress. She went on to play Posy Fossil in 2007 in the BBC film Ballet Shoes. She also played the role of Margaret Dashwood in the BBC serial Sense and Sensibility (2008). She portrayed the mysterious model Raphina in the 2016 film Sing Street, a ghost Polly Parsons in the 2016 film I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House and Countess Helena Andrenyi in the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. She played Freddie Mercury's partner, Mary Austin, in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), for which earned the cast a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards. She portrayed Astrid Sloan in the Netflix series The Politician (2019–2020).

Born: January 17, 1994

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

Filmography

2024
The Greatest Hits

as Harriet Gibbons

2023
Barbie

as Proust Barbie

2023
Chevalier

as Marie Antoinette

2022
The Pale Blue Eye

as Lea Marquis

2022
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

as Frankie Derwent

2022
The Ipcress File

as Jean Courtney

2021
Glimpse

as Rice

2021
Locked Down

as Charlotte

2019
Modern Love

as Paula

2019
The Politician

as Astrid Sloan

2018
Bohemian Rhapsody

as Mary Austin

2018
Apostle

as Andrea

2018
Let Me Go

as Emily

2017
Murder on the Orient Express

as Countess Elena Andrenyi

2017
Rebel in the Rye

as Claire Douglas

2017
Gypsy

as Allison Adams

2017
2017
2016
Lock In

as Lucy

2016
Sing Street

as Raphina

2015
Life In Squares

as Angelica Garnett

2014
Hymn to Pan

as Holliday

2013
Copperhead

as Esther Hagadorn

2013
400 Boys

as Heidi

2010
Mo

as Henrietta Norton

2008
Ballet Shoes

as Posy Fossil

2008
Sense and Sensibility

as Margaret Dashwood

2007
Lewis

as Zoe Suskin

2006
Miss Potter

as Young Beatrix

2006