Lucy Boynton is a British actress born in New York City and raised in London, who broke through playing Mary Austin, Freddie Mercury's close friend and former fiancée, in the acclaimed biopic 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. She has since built a career balancing period drama with darker material, appearing in the mystery 'Murder on the Orient Express' and the Edgar Allan Poe adaptation 'The Pale Blue Eye'. Boynton also voiced a satirical version of herself as 'Proust Barbie' in the blockbuster comedy 'Barbie'. She continues to move between studio franchises and smaller, character-driven films.
Lucy Boynton
Actress
32 years (Jan 17, 1994)New York City, USANew York City, New York, USA
Lucy Boynton is a British actress born in New York City and raised in London, who broke through playing Mary Austin, Freddie Mercury's close friend and former fiancée, in the acclaimed biopic 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. She has since built a career balancing period drama with darker material, appearing in the mystery 'Murder on the Orient Express' and the Edgar Allan Poe adaptation 'The Pale Blue Eye'. Boynton also voiced a satirical version of herself as 'Proust Barbie' in the blockbuster comedy 'Barbie'. She continues to move between studio franchises and smaller, character-driven films.
1994-01-17 · New York City, USANew York City, New York, USA
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).