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- Birth nameLucy Christabel Boynton
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- 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 in the 2016 film Sing Street (2016), and Countess Helena Andrenyi in the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express (2017).
- IMDb mini biography by: ahmetkozan
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsGraham BoyntonAdriaane Pielou
- RelativesEmma-Louise Boynton(Sibling)
- Was in a relationship with Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) co-star Rami Malek from 2018 until 2023.
- She has dual U.K. and U.S. citizenship.
- Born and lived in New York until age 5 when her family moved to the U.K. She is the daughter of British-born Graham Boynton, a Group Travel editor for Telegraph Media Group, and Adriaane Pielou, a travel writer.
- Attends James Allen's Girls' School (JAGS), a private school in London.
- Has an elder sister, Emma Louise Boynton.
- There is something daunting about getting a role you didn't formally audition for, another weight of needing to prove yourself.
- I've always been really terrible with horror films. I scare really easily and can't stand all the violence and gore.
- Being part of the Queen story and knowing what Freddie Mercury went through before he died of AIDS has really shown me how far we've come in fighting this disease.
- Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.
- My parents always traveled a lot with their job, so it became embedded in my nature quite early on that I would crave that constant change and traveling.
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