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).

Filmography

• 2028The Beatles: George — Jane Asher
• 2028The Beatles: John — Jane Asher
• 2028The Beatles: Paul — Jane Asher
• 2028The Beatles: Ringo — Jane Asher
• 2026See You When I See You — Emily Whistler
• A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story — Ruth Ellis
• 2024The Greatest Hits — Harriet Gibbons
• 2023Barbie — Proust Barbie
• 2023Chevalier — Marie Antoinette
• The Ipcress File — Jean Courtney
• 2022The Pale Blue Eye — Lea Marquis
• Why Didn't They Ask Evans? — Frankie Derwent
• 2021Glimpse — Rice (voice)
• 2021Locked Down — Charlotte
• Modern Love — Paula
• The Politician — Astrid Sloan
• 2018Apostle — Andrea
• 2018Bohemian Rhapsody — Mary Austin
• 2018Let Me Go — Emily
• 2017Don't Knock Twice — Chloe
• Gypsy — Allison Adams
• 2017Murder on the Orient Express — Countess Elena Andrenyi
• 2017Rebel in the Rye — Claire Douglas
• 2017The Blackcoat's Daughter — Rose
• 2017The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth — Bethany Mellmoth
• 2016I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House — Polly Parsons
• 2016Lock In — Lucy
• 2016Sing Street — Raphina
• Life in Squares — Angelica Garnett
• 2014Hymn to Pan — Holliday
• 2013400 Boys — Heidi
• 2013Copperhead — Esther Hagadorn
• 2010Mo — Henrietta Norton
• 2008Ballet Shoes — Posy Fossil
• Sense and Sensibility — Margaret Dashwood
• Lewis — Zoe Suskin
• 2006Miss Potter — Young Beatrix
• A Colt Is My Passport

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2020Ben Platt: Live from Radio City Music Hall — Self
• 2019Rami Malek: Becoming Freddie — Self / Mary Austin
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The One Show — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest