Lucy Boynton
☼ Born on 17 December 1994, in New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Lucy Boynton (born 17 January 1994) is an American-English actress. She made her film debut with a leading role in Miss Potter (2006). Boynton's credits include Copperhead (2013), Sing Street (2016), Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
Boynton was born in New York City and grew up in London. She is the daughter of British-born Graham Boynton, the Group Travel Editor of the Telegraph Media Group, and Adriaane Pielou, a travel writer. She has an older sister, Emma Louise Boynton. She attended Blackheath High School, followed by James Allen's Girls' School.
Boynton's first professional role was as the young Beatrix Potter in the 2006 British-American film Miss Potter (2006). Boynton has said that the first day of filming was "the best day of [her] life." In 2007, she was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress, for Miss Potter.
She went on to play Posy Fossil, one of three main characters in the BBC film Ballet Shoes (2007), in 2007. Posy is a young, ambitious ballerina who is taken under the wing of a prestigious dance academy. She did not dance in Ballet Shoes, instead a body double was used for her character's dancing scenes. Boynton also played the role of Margaret Dashwood in the BBC serial Sense & Sensibility (2008). In 2011, Boynton played a guest lead on Inspector Lewis (2006). She appeared in Mo (2010) with Julie Walters and David Haig. She portrayed the mysterious model Raphina
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in the 2016 film Sing Street (2016), and Countess Helena Andrenyi in the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express (2017).
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The Greatest Hits (12/04/2024)
A grieving woman finds herself pulled into the past, as a new love interest enters in the present in The Greatest Hits. For the past two years, Harriet (Lucy Boynton) has been unable to let go of the memory of her boyfriend Max (David Corenswet), who died in a car accident. The reason for this […]
The Pale Blue Eye (07/01/2023)
A detective enlists the help of a young Edgar Allen Poe to investigate a series of murders in The Pale Blue Eye. In 1830 West Point, New York, retired veteran detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) is called to the United States Military Academy, where he is tasked by the superiors Captain Hitchcock (Simon McBurney) and […]
Bohemian Rhapsody (20/01/2019)
The story of Freddy Mercury and Queen is told in Bohemian Rhapsody. In 1970, Farrokh Bulsara (Rami Malek), an Indian-British Parsi college student, is hired by Brian May (Gwilym Lee) and Roger Taylor (Ben Hardy) to be the new lead singer of their band Smile, adopting the new name of Freddie Mercury. Along with bassist John […]
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (16/09/2016)
A young hospice nurse encounters ghostly activity at the house of an elderly author in I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. It is said that a house with a death in it can no longer be bought by the living, only borrowed from the ghosts that live there. 28 year old […]
The Blackcoat’s Daughter (15/09/2015)
Two girls alone at a boarding school encounter an evil demonic presence in The Blackcoat’s Daghter. It is late February, and the Branford all-girls boarding school is preparing to go on break. However, the parents of neither Katherine (Kiernan Shipka) or Rose (Lucy Boynton) have arrived yet to pick them up, so they are left […]