Lucy Boynton
Biography
Lucy Boynton is a British actress born on January 17, 1994, in New York City, New York, USA. Her first professional role was as the young Beatrix Potter in the 2006 film Miss Potter, which earned her a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance in a Feature Film as a Supporting Young Actress. She subsequently played Posy Fossil in the 2007 BBC film Ballet Shoes and Margaret Dashwood in the 2008 BBC serial Sense and Sensibility. Her later film credits include portraying the mysterious model Raphina in Sing Street and the ghost Polly Parsons in I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, both released in 2016, as well as Countess Helena Andrenyi in the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.
Career overview
Lucy Boynton is a British actress born on January 17, 1994, in New York City, New York, United States. Her first professional acting role was portraying the young Beatrix Potter in the 2006 feature film Miss Potter, which earned her a nomination for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film as a Supporting Young Actress. Following this initial film appearance, she expanded her work into television by playing Posy Fossil in the 2007 BBC film Ballet Shoes and subsequently appeared as Margaret Dashwood in the 2008 BBC serial Sense and Sensibility.
Continuing her career in film, she portrayed the mysterious model Raphina in the 2016 film Sing Street and appeared as a ghost named Polly Parsons in the 2016 film I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. The following year, she played Countess Helena Andrenyi in the 2017 feature film adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. Her acting credits span both film and television productions, accumulating a total of forty-four known credits in her career thus far.
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- The Beatles: John (2028) as Jane Asher
- The Beatles: George (2028) as Jane Asher
- The Beatles: Ringo (2028) as Jane Asher
- The Beatles: Paul (2028) as Jane Asher
- See You When I See You (2026) as Emily Whistler
- A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story (2025) as Ruth Ellis
- The Greatest Hits (2024) as Harriet Gibbons
- Barbie (2023) as Proust Barbie
- Chevalier (2023) as Marie Antoinette
- The Pale Blue Eye (2022) as Lea Marquis
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022) as Frankie Derwent
- The Ipcress File (2022) as Jean Courtney
- Locked Down (2021) as Charlotte
- Glimpse (2021) as Rice (voice)
- Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall (2020) as Self
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) as Self
- The Politician (2019) as Astrid Sloan
- Modern Love (2019) as Paula
- Rami Malek: Becoming Freddie (2019) as Self / Mary Austin
- Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) as Mary Austin
- Apostle (2018) as Andrea
- Let Me Go (2018) as Emily
- Murder on the Orient Express (2017) as Countess Elena Andrenyi
- Gypsy (2017) as Allison Adams
- Rebel in the Rye (2017) as Claire Douglas
- The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017) as Rose
- Don't Knock Twice (2017) as Chloe
- The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth (2017) as Bethany Mellmoth
- Sing Street (2016) as Raphina
- Lock In (2016) as Lucy
- I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016) as Polly Parsons
- Life In Squares (2015) as Angelica Garnett
- Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014) as Self
- Hymn to Pan (2014) as Holliday
- 400 Boys (2013) as Heidi
- Copperhead (2013) as Esther Hagadorn
- Mo (2010) as Henrietta Norton
- Sense and Sensibility (2008) as Margaret Dashwood
- Ballet Shoes (2008) as Posy Fossil
- Lewis (2007) as Zoe Suskin
- The One Show (2006) as Self
- Miss Potter (2006) as Young Beatrix
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- A Colt Is My Passport